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electronic sedation

I don't watch much TV, really. But, still, I feel like it's starting to play too big of a role in my life. After a long day of work and chores and meeting the demands of other people, I put Celeste down for bed and, often, as was the case last night, I fall asleep [...]

thoughts on moving, part II: the whining game

The problem with moving is that if I'm not careful I'll end up in something just as bad as where I am now, just bad in a different way.
Apartments
An Apartment (vs a Rental House) seems to make the most sense on first thought. But there are some issues.
First of all even the biggest apartments are, [...]

this old house

It looks like I'm getting stuck with the house (and the SUV and the credit card debt). So I'm trying to decide how best to work that out and I'm hoping that writing it out and your advice together will help me find the best solution.
(This is really not about why I'm stuck with these [...]

Road Trip this weekend?

Who wants to go on a Road Trip this weekend? We'd leave Friday afternoon or early Saturday morning and head back Sunday or Monday evening. Hotel, gas, photography equipment and park admission is already covered.
If you follow me on Twitter (as you very well should) you may have witnessed my consideration of making an impromptu [...]

intensity

I can be intense. Too intense for some people, I think. I'm trying to work on this and figure out how to control it more.
Twice this week people I don't communicate with very often have commented on how fast I respond to emails. A friend mentioned that she had forgotten while I was out of [...]

motivation and commitment

Part of me wants to think that I'm just lazy. But if I really look at it I start to see that really, I lack motivation and commitment. I realized this after reading a post from a friend having a similar problem.
Look at yesterday. I got up at 6:30. I got caught up online, did [...]

a schedule

Despite the ever decreasing amounts of free time I have these days (it was bad even before the baby) I feel compelled to force myself to continue to create and explore. I think a forced schedule is the best way to accomplish this. While it doesn't produce outstanding results every day, forcing myself to produce [...]

Portable Ubuntu – Part 2

As mentioned a few days ago, I'm having problems with Portable Ubuntu. This morning, fed up with my perfectionist ways, I decided to jump through the hoops required to do it the no-brainer way, that Justin suggested. I wish I hadn't.

help: portable bus-powered USB hard drives

The last time I looked into Portable USB hard drives, in the end, I simply gave up. I ended up purchasing a 160GB Acomdata drive unknowning what a nightmare connecting it to two USB ports would be. This particular drive requires either an external power connection, or two USB ports to be occupied in order [...]

help: portable, internet capable devices

Long story short, my day-job is locking down our company laptops leaving me with no computer for personal use when on business trips. Not really eager to carry two laptops on a business trip and already having one laptop in the family,  I'm not really considering buying another full-blown laptop. However, I am potentially in [...]