days without a job

Dream, dream, dream. Waking up is inevitable.

sometimes one just has to say wow.
wow, wow, wow.

I used to be a really good Lotus Notes Domino developer. This was about five years ago, when I was laid off from an awesome company. They were closing their doors, and we all got canned.
I took off on my own, as a web developer, developing in php. At first I did okay. Recently though, [...]

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I’m a
Creative Self-Knowing Health Nut

My friend Kitty is back home. Why is this a reason to blog? Because she tried to commit suicide (overdose) and was rescued by two friends who came in to the house and called 911. She was at 4 1/2 breaths per minute. She was very close to death. But it wasn’t meant to be. [...]

The road to recovery started today. My PT is Jeff, a charming and skilled man hailing from Calgary, Canada. He determined that my injury might be less worse than I feared (fingers crossed, fingers crossed); I may bike, walk but no tennis and tap, my passions.
He did a 5 minute massage on the spot that [...]

This weekend I had my first serious sports injury, playing tennis, my favorite sport. I am the lucky recipient of a medial head gastroc strain, also known — as my doc said — as…. a tennis leg!
After a fabulous serve and volley, and continuing to approach the net I felt a tear (no sound) in [...]

I facebooked and twittered (notice how these have become a verb, just like googled) about this, earlier in the week. You know how when you call, oh, for example, Wells Fargo Mortgage, they make you enter your account number and other relevant stuff. I’m always initially impressed by this (note the use of the word [...]

Today is the first day after my separation from my partner.  It has been a wonderful and remarkable relationship - most of our friends are shocked at the news. We’ve gone through many things together: my heart surgery, 9/11, her hospitalization with a platelet count of 5, my job losses, her career change, my mother’s [...]

At thanksgiving we went to Boston to meet my little niece, Xela. She’s the cutest nine-month old button you’ll ever meet. She has a blog which you should totally check out. Her mommy has updated it with lots of great pictures of all her new Tias.