On Life and Love
Whatever is making or breaking my day.
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Locs
So, I was glancing through some photos on Facebook from the Hannah/Alex wedding this summer (where the back of my head was camera-happy, evidently), and I realized that my locs are kinda awesome. I’ve done a pretty good job of weaning myself off of being all hair-ful and stuff, but the photos surprised me a bit. There’s color variation I wasn’t expecting, and… personality. They’re moderately “mature” now — I’ve had them for about a year and a half, and while I’m not sure if they’ll tighten up more, they’re definitely well-entrenched. I used to (and still do) ogle the locs of other folks when I’m out and about; now…
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A touch of blackness and a slathering of iPhone
I think that I shall be more of a bitch when people question my ethnicity. That is all. I finally got myself an iPhone (or “iWone”, as I call it) last weekend, and I’m generally impressed. It’s worth the $100 and increase in monthly bills (esp. with the corporate discount I have), since I can afford to swing it. It’s definitely a luxury item, of course, but mos def a convenient one. One disappointment: no read-aloud of driving directions on the 3G. I don’t have a lot of apps at the moment, and I’ve only purchased one: PopCap’s Bookworm — which has proven to me how unsharp I’ve let myself…
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Shenanigans with an insurance salesperson
So I’m trying to get life insurance. Just 20-year level term life insurance. It’s supposed to be cheap and easy to get. Some of the big dogs won’t do online quotes, New York Life in particular. So I agreed to meet with a local agent yesterday morning and let him talk at me over coffee. Yes, coffee, which I don’t go for often. Luckily, it was at Panera Bread, so the coffee was pretty good, although a little aged. We go through the usual rigmarole of “Oh, you used to be a teacher? So did I!” After the meeting, I think I knew pretty well why he ultimately left teaching,…
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A bit less of a slacker
I finally got off my ass and finished moving over my teaching retirement money. I asked them to cut me a check back in February so that I could do a rollover into an IRA. Well, turns out you can only rollover into a traditional IRA, so I got two accounts set up (traditional and Roth) and stalled, and stalled, then moved into the house, then stalled some more… Ah, life. It happens. And the check is chump change in the grand scheme of things, really… Blah, blah, inertia. I’m appreciating a new, larger salary now, though, and have located my inner “gazelle” (although it’s more like a puppy, really)…
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Tastee (del.icio.us) links! (July 29th)
Links for July 29th from 16:12 to 16:12: JeffreyBarke.net » Blog Archive » Installing the Fileinfo PECL module on a Media Temple dedicated virtual (dv) server – A quick and dirty guide to installing Fileinfo on a MediaTemple server. I really appreciate guides like this when I'm trudging through server admin work.