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Have you ever heard the phrase, "be careful what you wish for, you may get it"? 

It certainly does seem to have happened in my quest to have a job centered around the Internet.

So...

If infrequent posting indicates a boring to the point of braindeath life, I need say nothing further.

Guilt induced post

Checking my statistics today for this blog in an attempt to decide whether or not to close it down, I see that a fair number (10+) of people still visit here.  So now, instead of closing it, I feel obliged to add to it.

Passion-less

For most of my life I've been the kind of guy who gets 100% into a new passion, learns as much about it as possible, then burns out on the topic, often never to visit it again.  It's been that way with hobbies, interests, novel genres, even people.

Now one of my greatest passions of the last 30 years is in danger of following the same pattern.  Too many days I find myself uninterested in being in front of a computer.

As the world turns...over

If the rest of the year continues as it began, I'll need to decide if I intend to become suicidal or homicidal.  It does make a difference you know.  If I choose suicide, I should start now stockpiling the meds I'll need for an overdose (yes, I would prefer to go out in my sleep.  Why endure suffering to end suffering?  That makes no sense.)  If I elect homicide, I'm all set.  All I'll need to do is pick out a cool outfit to be wearing for the evening news coverage.

HAPPY...just another day

I was just reading my friend Meka's blog (as opposed to My Friend Flicka's blog) and read her quote from another blooger about the traditional "look back at the past year", a theme done to death on TV news reports, local newspapers and nearly every where else. 

Ever since I quit drinking (about 10 years ago) and started thinking strangely (about 50 years ago), certain days of celebration have lost meaning for me.  New Year's, for instance. 

Back when humans finally developed a large enough brain to start contemplating non-essential thoughts, probably one of the first things they noticed was that it got light then dark on a regular basis (or if you're a believer in the biblical account, on both day one and four god invented the sun, light, day and night...not sure how that worked).  However it happened, we wound up eventually with days and nights.  Later they were divided up, grouped into months and numbered.  All of this was guesswork, and changed several times through the ages.  Yet now we celebrate this one particular day like it really was something special, and not the simple result of a human trying to make sense out of natural randomness.   And that got me to thinking about nudity...

Decisions, decisions

When I was younger, it was well known among us single guys that if you wore a wedding ring, it was easier to meet women.  For some reason, it was easier to get a partner if you already had one.  Or so it seemed.
Perhaps that theory holds for jobs, too. 

Do not adjust your monitor...

We have taken control of the horizontal...well, OK, actually I just adjusted the colors of the site.  Still seeking continuity.  I'm having to decide which of my numerous online projects deserve my attention and which should be deleted, converted to other uses or simply abandoned.  I want to avoid that if possible.  I don't want to junk up the Internet more than it already is.  Cyberlitter is a growing problem.  If I can't maintain something, I think I owe it to all the other users of the Web to either toss my own trash or recycle it.  It may just be ones and zeros, but they add up after while.  So here's the list of all my current stuff.  I think my first alteration will be to turn jeber.net into a storage space for jebers.com, then perhaps eliminate/consolidate one or more blogs.  Let's be honest, I'm a backward planner.  I build something first, then start restyling it to meet my needs.  I really should learn how to plan ahead.

Feels so good

I'd almost forgotten how good it feels to get up every day with a destination, a goal...something to do. A week and a half of training is now behind us, and tomorrow we begin taking help desk calls on our own. Only eight days of training, you say? This company only hires those with previous Windows software and hardware experience. In fact, you have to pass an eight page written exam before you even get your first interview. Then all they have to do is train us how to use the tracking program they use and where to find the resources they provide to help us troubleshoot.
It's all pretty exciting. I'm still going to be talking computers all day long, offering what help I can to those in need of it...but now I'll be getting paid to do it.