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And a lot has happened in that time (unfortunately a job hasn’t been one of them) I’ve written a lot of stuff (just under 2000 posts), met some new people and vented my spleen quite a bit.
I’m no Instapundit, Hotair or any kind of big blog, but to the tens of thousands who have visited and have either stayed or quickly left let me say it’s been a pleasure to share my thought and my year with you. May they next year treat us all well.
…but with a machine on the blink and WalMart offering a laptop for under $200 (even if it was an E-Machine) I figured it was worth my time if I was up.
I woke up around 3 and went downstairs sometime near 4. Since WalMart opened at 5 I figured I’d hit there around 45 min early with an I-Pod in the ear and a book in the hand.
Much to my surprise when I got there the parking lot was already full and the store already open, apparently despite the flyer they decided to open an hour earlier. So by the time I walked in around 20 past 4 the lines in electronics were huge and the laptops were already gone. There was a 2nd WalMart about 20 min away but I finally decided against it. There were netbooks at a comparable price but that wasn’t what I was looking for.
So instead I am home and blogging if I was able to live without it a week ago I can certainly do so now and maybe I’ll catch a little more shuteye.
I’ve spent a good chunk of my waking hours doing online linux courses and studying. I have linux on the brain and am very tired.
Tomorrow I re-open my unemployment claim and maybe manage lunch with the wife, beyond that there are a pair of broken cars needing fixing (only the dough to fix one for now) and an interview to keep preparing for (no game night for me this week). Oh and I have to swap out a power supply on a pc when I get the chance.
The good news is since there is no chance of me not waiting at the unemployment office I’ll likely finish the Palin book tomorrow morning but I’m about as mentally tired as one can get.
I sure hope nothing exciting happens in the next 24 hours politically, I wouldn’t know what to write.
I blogged a bit yesterday morning before and after mass but today I just don’t know.
…at the very moment that this post went up.
I was planning a long post on the subject of a year without work and how it has been pretty bad, but as you might know I’m kinda busy this weekend so this will have to do.
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