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Day by Day: Seriously, wtf squiddy
Fri, 13 Jun 2008

Swiped from here

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Life: Must.Chill.
Thu, 24 Jan 2008

I'm a pretty laid back fella. It takes a lot to get a rise out of me.

I should make a New Years Resolution though -- it would be prudent to avoid writing emails or making decisions in the morning after a sleepless night. Those all-too frequent crazy nights damage ones calm.

I mean .. I think of late I have been snappy, and probably complain about sleep dep too much. Ah well. Shit happens :)

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Anxiety: Rock. Hard place.
Fri, 09 Jun 2006

There are many flavours of stress - varied shapes, sizes and textures. I'm fortunate to be generally low stress (or perhaps have a really high threshold - not sure which :), and I'm the sort to just let kruft roll on off. Still, after months of too much and too hard work I find its the little things that add up; when stupid things don't go as you expect (toss something onto the couch and it bounces off or you get cut off in traffic); worse still are the minor interuptions when you just want to have 5 minutes to set your mind straight. The phone will ring, someone will ask or need something, the doorbell bongs -- that stuff will cave your skull in left unchecked. Fine. But thats not what I'm writing about. No my friends, for today I'm just whining. Okay? Indulge me, or stop reading now :)

Sometimes things stress both of us out; you know the sort of thing, we all go through it -- bad news, or difficult decisions -- heck, everyone whose ever bought a house, moved, or changed jobs knows what I'm talking about. Whats funny is that my wife is my rock, and I'm hers, but if we're both stressed out -- who is our rock? After a tough day I can always come home and the rough edges wash away just by getting nearer to my wife and home.. but what if we're both stressed? She comes to me for help, of course, since I'm her guy.

But who do I get to dump on?

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Day by Day: A snip from a /.er
Thu, 01 Jun 2006

I sort of liked this little comment someone made; short and to the point:

We've become a management culture since the Cold War ended. The emphasis on science and technology has been replaced with an emphasis on managerial skills and the joys of outsourcing. And since the amount of money being spent on educating our young has diminished, and you often get the proverbial gym teacher teaching chem lab, is it any wonder why science scores are down?

Courtesy of 'monkaduck'

Every time I read a posting or news item about education in the US or Canada being down, about outsorcering, about a technical person having a hard time finding work or recently losing his job it makes me wonder; I suppose its the same old problem tech people have always faced inside the workforce -- that it is assumed that techies become managers once they've become good techies; Non-techs seem to think management is a step up, but we techs know the truth -- that most of us do it because we like to play with things, blow stuff up, and create. Maybe the Matrix brought in a few new recruits, but with enrolment in computer science down, and people entered trades in smaller numbers than ever before.. I think we're heading for a crisis. We're the society Douglas Adams was talking about, full of hair dressers and managers...

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