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  • Walmart Closing Stores

    It’s Saturday morning and I am reading about how Walmart is closing in areas trying to unionize. Some lawyers and accountants in Little Rock, Arkansas banged their heads together and figured out that there would be a cost savings that would equal out to more money than the store was…

  • A Thursday Afternoon

    I had particularly difficult Thursday morning so I decided to escape the campus and take lunch offsite. As I was walking to my car, I saw an older homeless man sitting at a nearby picnic table. He had a cat perched on the table and he was feeding it cat…

  • Poverty is Expensive

    I find myself thinking about my current life’s situation as a member of the working impoverished. I live in a relatively high cost of living place and I earn what was a good salary 20 years ago at 52K. This salary is living paycheck to paycheck right now without being…

  • One More Step Towards Ditching Google

    I am very concerned and aware of the need for greater privacy, and while this post singles out Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and Microsoft et al are just as guilty. I’ve largely moved away from the Microsoft Windows stack. I still have to keep Windows around so I can play…

  • Sometimes a Light Shines in a Dark Moment

    When I went in to work today, I felt particularly gloomy and down and depressed. I found myself wondering if I would be able to make it effectively another 19 years before hitting eligibility to retire. I found myself wondering if I would even live long enough to see retirement.…

  • Checked Out Mentally

    I am sitting here at my desk and in my office; just completely checked out mentally. I am starting to really hate my job with the state agency I am currently employed by. So I figure I will instead blog about my feelings. I just had a junior technician try…

  • My Blog

    I’ve finally completed the transition of my blog from paying Namecheap to host it to doing it on my own. I don’t know really know why I resisted for so long but I finally pulled the trigger and did it. I guess maybe I didn’t want to be bothered with…

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