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Thursday, September 29, 2005
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Pay raise and new office
Yay! I got a NICE pay raise. I went from 50k a year (I thought it was 53, but that's another story..) to 61K. I asked for 12K, and got 11 - I'm happy. It'll mean about $600 extra each month.
And I got the old accountant's office. Both my old and new office were real offices (and window ones at that), but this one is bigger, and right between the CEO's and my boss' offices. I'm happy. :) And it's perennially cool in there. Another plus.
So I was moving into my new office today, and that was quite a workout. Two desks, three monitors, three computers (one non-operational, but still dead weight). Haven't moved the bookshelf but I'll do that tomorrow.
Almost finished migrating the site to AJAX (oh, I really like this, it's so CLEAN and organized..), migrated most of the "upload batch" program to pretend it's a web browser and use the AJAX as well. Next month we'll see if it actually works. I've got a bit of code at work that will, from .Net, launch OpenOffice, have it load a file and save it in another format. I plan to rewrite our complex reports to spit out OpenOffice-format files, and then let OO convert it to Word, Excel, or PDF (or whatever I want in the future). It'll be great. Might even just write some reports directly in OpenOffice. Gotta research that more.
Got a couple more books from the library on Jewish topics. I'd post the names, but they're in the car and I'm not. Maybe later. and I have recently been watching Dead Like Me from netflix. I'd recommend it if the following word could, in part, describe you: weird. If that goes in the sentence "I am xxxxx." then you might enjoy it. I've got a DVD here that we really need to get around to watching and sending back... Oh well.
One last thing: I LOVE this weather. Ah. It was 46F this morning, misting in my face. Just wonderful. The ONLY way it could have been better would be snow, and even then, I'm not sure that it really would have been better. Too bad it won't last.
And I got the old accountant's office. Both my old and new office were real offices (and window ones at that), but this one is bigger, and right between the CEO's and my boss' offices. I'm happy. :) And it's perennially cool in there. Another plus.
So I was moving into my new office today, and that was quite a workout. Two desks, three monitors, three computers (one non-operational, but still dead weight). Haven't moved the bookshelf but I'll do that tomorrow.
Almost finished migrating the site to AJAX (oh, I really like this, it's so CLEAN and organized..), migrated most of the "upload batch" program to pretend it's a web browser and use the AJAX as well. Next month we'll see if it actually works. I've got a bit of code at work that will, from .Net, launch OpenOffice, have it load a file and save it in another format. I plan to rewrite our complex reports to spit out OpenOffice-format files, and then let OO convert it to Word, Excel, or PDF (or whatever I want in the future). It'll be great. Might even just write some reports directly in OpenOffice. Gotta research that more.
Got a couple more books from the library on Jewish topics. I'd post the names, but they're in the car and I'm not. Maybe later.
One last thing: I LOVE this weather. Ah. It was 46F this morning, misting in my face. Just wonderful. The ONLY way it could have been better would be snow, and even then, I'm not sure that it really would have been better. Too bad it won't last.
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Taken from Crowdog66
10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is "Wrong"
1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
3)
Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy
behaviour. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has
legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
4) Straight
marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women
are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is
still illegal.
5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if
gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Brittany Spears' 55-hour
just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
6) Straight marriages
are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile
couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our
orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.
7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
8)
Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours,
the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's
why we have only one religion in America.
9) Children can never
succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we
as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10)
Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never
adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the
service-sector economy, or longer life spans
Please post this in your journal if you are for gay marriage.
10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is "Wrong"
1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
3)
Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy
behaviour. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has
legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
4) Straight
marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women
are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is
still illegal.
5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if
gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Brittany Spears' 55-hour
just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
6) Straight marriages
are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile
couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our
orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.
7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
8)
Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours,
the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's
why we have only one religion in America.
9) Children can never
succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we
as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10)
Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never
adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the
service-sector economy, or longer life spans
Please post this in your journal if you are for gay marriage.
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Rabbi meeting
I met with the Rabbi wednesday. I'm only blogging about it now because I'm lazy with blogging: something I should correct. Anyways, I'm going to high holy day services there this year instead of Temple Micah; it should be interesting the differences. I forget what he said the differences were likely to be, but I expect them to be different. And that should be good. I'm going to re-read one of the books: God and the Big Bang, writing down questions this time. I also get to read one or two easier A. Heschel books than the one I did read (his last one, published after his death, I believe). That's what I get for just picking up a book by him without first checking with the Rabbi as to whether or not it's at my level.
So, I get to work on my theology that way, and I'm going to be working on my inter-personal / community skills. The fact that I accidentally pissed off both a co-worker and my brother (separate events, thankfully) doesn't help. I need to work on my tact. But anyways.. I do like the people that I interact with at Bnai Havurah, and since I at least recognize the other people, I'm getting comfortable, which is good.
I'm slowly growing my list of people (which isn't a list, per se) that I do my annual teshuva thing with. (sarcam) fun fun (/sarcasm). But I do recognize that it really does help me be a better person, both by being able to get that peer-review aspect of it, but being able to bury my own frustrations and start with a clean slate. Last year I decided to work on lashon hara - gossip. I wasn't too much of a gossip before, and most of it went into my wife's ears if anyone. I'm not sure how much progress I made, however; nor what I want to work on next year. Possibly that again, maybe something else.. Giving/doing tzedakah might be a good one.
So, I get to work on my theology that way, and I'm going to be working on my inter-personal / community skills. The fact that I accidentally pissed off both a co-worker and my brother (separate events, thankfully) doesn't help. I need to work on my tact. But anyways.. I do like the people that I interact with at Bnai Havurah, and since I at least recognize the other people, I'm getting comfortable, which is good.
I'm slowly growing my list of people (which isn't a list, per se) that I do my annual teshuva thing with. (sarcam) fun fun (/sarcasm). But I do recognize that it really does help me be a better person, both by being able to get that peer-review aspect of it, but being able to bury my own frustrations and start with a clean slate. Last year I decided to work on lashon hara - gossip. I wasn't too much of a gossip before, and most of it went into my wife's ears if anyone. I'm not sure how much progress I made, however; nor what I want to work on next year. Possibly that again, maybe something else.. Giving/doing tzedakah might be a good one.
Daily Update
A quick post, being as we need to get dressed and go to the Delectable Egg for breakfast. Then we're going to Nan Desu Kan Convention. The only reason we're doing that: free weekend tickets. bought 4 months ago, but two of his friends are no longer in-state, so now we get to enjoy them instead. We went a little yesterday - I felt positively plain there. There were costumes I really wouldn't have dreamed up there...
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