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Despair

I love this place http://www.despair.com/viewall.html

Shift Happens

http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift

Internet Study Material

Study material for the internet-impaired.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_slang_phrases

Sweet Advice

Four little sentences that will get you through life.

1. Cover for me.
2. Oh, good idea, Boss!
3. It was like that when I got here.
4. Yes, dear
   

Mud

God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God.
Nobody but you could have done it, God! I certainly couldn't have.
I feel very unimportant compared to You.
The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and look around.
I got so much, and most mud got so little.
Thank you for the honor!
Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep.
What memories for mud to have!
What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met!
I loved everything I saw!
Good night.
I will go to heaven now.
I can hardly wait...

Pale Blue Dot

http://www.glumbert.com/media/palebluedot

Daily Quote

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson

Food Choice Confusion

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1595245,00.html

Waiting on the World

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7765148

Why wait?

C Monkey

A tourist walked into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display. While he was there, another customer walked in and said to the shopkeeper, "I'll have a C monkey please." The shopkeeper nodded, went over to a cage at the side of the shop and took out a monkey. He fit a collar and leash, handed it to the customer, saying, "That'll be $5000." The customer paid and walked out with his monkey.

Startled, the tourist went over to the shopkeeper and said, "That was a very expensive monkey. Why did it cost so much?" The shopkeeper answered, "Ah, that monkey can program in C - very fast, tight code, no bugs, well worth the money."

The tourist looked at the monkey in another cage. "That one's even more expensive! $10,000! What does it do?" "Oh, that one's a C++ monkey; it can manage object-oriented programming, Visual C++, even some Java. All the really useful stuff," said the shopkeeper.

The tourist looked around for a little longer and saw a third monkey in a cage of its own. The price tag around its neck read $50,000. He gasped to the shopkeeper, "That one costs more than all the other put together! What on earth does it do?" The shopkeeper replied, "Well, I haven't actually seen it do anything, but the other monkeys call him the project manager."

Today vs. Tomorrow

Let me preface this post by saying that I don't mean to sound negative. Remember, these are just some of my thoughts.
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We're told from an early age to save our money. At a minimum 10% they say. With time, we're told, that money will grow and will be there for us later in life when we need it.

Some of us have also been told about the power of interest. Obviously related to savings, but when explained and really understood, underscores the power of saving your money. It makes it easier and more justifiable to save your money.

I remember a presentation I attended during orientation at my first job that offered a retirement account. I was told at the time that every dollar I socked away in the account would turn into $128 dollars by the time I retired. Wow! I'd be a fool not to save, right?

So, armed with this invaluable knowledge, I busily started working to save so that I could get that interest working for me. I've lived this paradigm now for quite a few years and have definitely started to see the machine work for me and my wife. We work and work, and save and save. Lofty ambitions it seems require stressful jobs so there is a lot of stress in our life. We have to work long hours and that's hardly any fun, but as I said, we see the machine working for us so all is good, right?

Or is it?

As I mentioned, we work and work and stress and stress. Often times, we have trouble separating work from our personal life. We miss parties, we miss events, we miss friends, we miss family, we miss each other. I guess we justify it by saying that it'll all be worth it someday.

... someday...

What if someday never comes? What if we wake up one day and realize we're 50 and haven't lived? I guess the thought is that by then we'll able to start living. We shouldn't have to work anymore (assuming we can walk away from it). But what life will we have to start living at that point? Worse still, what if we aren't around to enjoy those times we're working so hard towards? Who knows what the future holds...

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Mental note to self... stop working, go home, live a little... have a beer or two... don't worry so much damn it!

P.S. It's merely a coincidence that this post was today, Valentine's Day. There is no deeper reason.

Choices

"Every 'yes' is a 'no' and every 'no' is a 'yes'"

"What does that mean?" you ask. Well... life, as we all know, is full of choices and decisions. "Should I do this or should I do that?" Every time you choose to do something, you choose not to do something else. At the same time, every time you choose not to do something, you choose to do something else. For example, "Should I stay and work late, or should I go home and cook dinner for my family?" "Should I not go to Girls night and stay home with my husband"?

Life is full of these little choices. How you balance these choices is extremely difficult.

Business Analysts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_analyst

Ah ha! The picture begins to come into focus. Unfortunately, I think I'm the only one who's seen this.