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Now that several days have passed, as well as a nice weekend, I have accepted the state of my database and want to just move forward.  I will be getting a wireless scanner (something that I should have had in the first place) which will make the inventory go faster.  Thanks for all the good [...]

Imagine you are told that the database you work with and need to function at your job, the database that has about 32,000 items in it, was lost during a server move.
Imagine you actually started crying in front of the IT guy after calculating in your head that it would probably take you at least [...]

A little while back GeekHiker asked me about how I deal with the language barriers when travelling.  Recently, when I mentioned that I backpacked through Europe after college, he also made a comment that he would’ve travelled after college too if he had the money.  So I figured I can tackle these two topics together.  (And if the post [...]

Thank you my blogosphere peeps for letting me be so self-indulgent last week.  I think that the mini break-down was probably a long time coming due to certain thoughts nagging at me, not sleeping enough was providing fuel for the fire, and a few issues with the padres were enough to set it off.  I’m [...]

(I totally stole borrowed the title ,with slight modification, from The Coconut Diaries.)
My original plan was to write something at work yesterday or today, but as I’ve been doing actual work at work, that never happened.  I did, however, manage to think about what I would write.  I had some ideas about a year-in-review (even [...]

This weekend Little Sister turned 21.  We pre-gamed at my place and then partied in the East Village like it was 1999; drank way too much and laughed so hard.  The fake ID is no longer necessary as all doors are now open.  Her friends all came out and her boy played Happy Birthday on [...]