WOOHOO!

[r00]

Woohoo, Native Instruments is upgrading everyone who recently purchased Traktor Scratch Duo to the Pro version for free!  That just saved me $120 and now I have 24 more effects (plus chaining them) to play with among other things.  muwahahaha

[Aaron]

I bought a straight razor (and strop kit. the razor came prehoned/shave ready. And ya new razors aren't always shave ready.) It's a used razor, but the whole kit and razor was 55USD. So I can't complain. I'm not very good with it, but I've read that it takes 100 shaves to get good with it.  But I'm learning... Also I think my level of badass went up using it.

[luna]

have I ever mentioned how much i <3 online shopping?
today's purchase:

[threatsicle]

cool clothing line's gonna use one of my photos for a shirt run.

i <3 twitter.

[sin]

Got my taxes done; getting a lot more back than I thought I would.  Also became aware that I need to be saving my hospital bills and pharmacy receipts, as I hadn't realized that my medical bills were now large enough to start writing them off.  I don't have any documentation for this year, but definitely something for next tax season.

[r00]

I would write off what you know anyway.  You can probably still get receipts for the hospital work if you need them.  My experience is nobody is going to audit you unless unless you are worth it.  (i.e. you make a fuck ton of money and have it spread out through various sources of income).  We had a ton of out-of-pocket medical expenses one year and deducting them made a huge difference in our return that year.  *

*disclaimer: I am not a tax expert.  any advice given is strictly my opinion.  ;-)

[r00]

FUCK. YES.

My old network team lead from the place I worked at for a decade just contacted me about a position they have opening up where he works.  (It's the place that bought who I worked for before, so it would be a step back into the tech industry).

It's more of a network security position rather than a network engineering position, but it would do nothing but broaden my horizons and get me the fuck out of here.  I am decent at security, but no guru.  I just can't afford to jump in at a lower pay scale than I am at now.

I'm sending him my resume and praying to all gods.   

[Aaron]

Good luck r00!

[TPD]

btw, you reading Saga?
real good stuff. another winner from bkv

[r00]

Good luck r00!

thanks man.  I updated my resume and sent it over today.  The mere thought of leaving this place literally brings me to tears of joy.

[Aaron]

HAHAH I know the feeling. Thinking of quitting my job makes me hard.

I have even dreamed about it, and then woken up to the cold hard reality that I still work there.

[chimera]

Crossing all my appendages for you, bruddah, even though it hurts because I'm old. 

Something potentially very awesome occurred last week but I don't want to jinx it.  But also Mr. G shared something cool with me (even before his colleagues) and what's best about it, IMO, is that he was the one who created it (not just contributed to it).

[luna]

Good luck r00!

We bought a new mattress set today

It will be delivered next Saturday but I got to take my sweet new memory foam body pillow today

Next big purchase - a new car...figured I should trade mine in while it's still worth a decent amount, plus I need something a bit bigger

[individualzero]

Good luck, r00!

luna, what model of car are you looking into? New cars are always exciting!




I'm going to Outback Steakhouse later today for my birthday and I haven't been there in ten years. Going to order a mountain of cheese fries, the Bloomin' Onion, as big of a steak as I can find on the menu and scarf down on as much of that toasty pumpernickel (or whatever the hell that addicting bread is) as I can eat. I might bomb a tequila shot or two, also.

I remember them being fairly good... we'll see if the test of time -- and the fact that I was twelve, last I went -- impacts the taste and quality.

[luna]

I'm thinking Mazda 3 sport (that's the hatchback model)