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It’s official. I’m a grown up.
I have a will. It’s notarized and official. I even did a living will in case I get turned into a turnip by the M42 while I cross the street.
The folks at Legal Zoom made it pretty painless and cheap, and they provide the will in Microsoft Word format. A [...]

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Sorry for the quiet, but where I work closes the fiscal year at the end of this month, which means I’m as busy as a one-armed paper hanger. I don’t generally talk about work here, because I need my job, but I will say this much: SOX sucks.

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My New Year’s resolution for 2005 is to commit no New Year’s resolutions to this blog.
Ooops. Oh well, I’m not doing much worse than last year.
All I really want to know is why I’m not getting a “New Year’s Day (observed)” holiday from work. I don’t get today or Monday off, but from the empty [...]

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I turned the Christmas holiday into a five day weekend. That’s what happens when you are only allowed to carry over a fixed number of vacation days a year. Makes for a quiet office in December, that’s for sure. But I should stop kidding myself. When I’ve got time off, I never get around to [...]

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Sometimes it is important not to be too efficient in this city. While I usually move with purpose and focus, with great impatience for any delay, sometimes it is good to slow down and wander a bit.
I might have missed the well dressed man eating from a box of cinnamon life as he waited for [...]

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