It's been a hectic new year. But mostly I've just been lazy and rather lackadaisical about keeping up here. I've done a few things, but also spent a handful of time at home alone. With Adam being away for almost 3 weeks late night trips to the lake were cut down significantly. And by significantly I mean completely.
I've finished my quote-bombing at work. It was really fun for a time, almost two months, but I think it ran its natural course and it's done. I even got some cool replies from people. I could tell who it was so I can only wonder if they knew it was me. I'd like to take this chance to document all of the quotes I chose:
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost
"All that we are is a result of what we have thought." - Buddha
"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else." - Albert Einstein
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napolean Bonaparte
"The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely impossible lacks." - Douglas Adams
"Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth." - Paul Krugman
"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value." - Isaac Asimov
"If one does not understand a person one tends to regard him as a fool." - Carl Jung
"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced course of action you should take - choose the bolder." - Ezra Pound (have a drink and think again)
"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets." - Nietzsche (
"With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere." - CS Lewis (But nothing everything ends somewhere.)
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." - William Blake
"There is an eloquence in true enthusiam." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Few people can see genius in someone that has offended them." - Robertson Davies
"Being asked what kind of animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you already are one." - Douglas Coupland (but maybe not the animal you'd like to be)
"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world." - Leonard Cohen (otherwise known as the lazy people)
And that's that. It was fun while it lasted, but no more stealthy runs across the office in efforts to remain anonymous. I wanted to save up a good one for my contract ending but I just don't have it in me anymore. That's another thing, I might be done with this office come February. I'm pratically begging them to let me know either way. Today the permanent people got a bonus which just set me off. It was 4pm and I just wanted to pack up and leave. Like my efforts are not appreciated as much as the rest of my coworkers. Obviously some of them work on projects that are more advanced than I could handle, but I'm on the ground doing a lot of work with a lot of different custom applications. And when things go wrong I'm right in there troubleshooting with the higher ups, solutioning the seemingly impossible.
My landlord has been in and out of my apartment this week fixing my shower. A few days ago he did some soldering and left two windows open to air it out. My place was FREEZING. With the space heater running it hovered at 14C for about two hours before I finally gave up and turned the oven on and left it open. It's the poor man's furnace, except I'm sure it's not cheap. He did make some nice advances on the shower, except he said it was "fixed" and when I run the water to the showerhead the faucet leaks all the cold water and all I'm left with is scalding hot water. I quickly wet my hair trying to avoid getting burned, but it was too painful so I had to rinse the shampoo out under the faucet. That doesn't work well with long hair. Ugh.
Tomorrow morning Adam's coming over and I'm going to make french toast, with cut up fruit. A nice cheap alternative to Futures all-day-breakfast, except there's no way it could be as tasty, dang.
That's all she wrote.
1 comment:
I missed you. But you knew that already.
You're overdue for another post :)
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