Well, here we go again.

It recently dawned on me that my 'blog' — don't you just hate that word these days? — had not materialized into what I had hoped. Over the past few months, it had become a series of pastes and other things that nobody cared about. I'm not basing this on any feedback of course, because nobody read the damn thing lately.

Rather than simply course-correcting, I decided to kill the whole five-year accumulation of posts (917 of them, to be exact) and start over. Much cleaner. It was never intended to be a popular publication, but a repository of my thoughts.

So, will I be satisfied with it this time? Who knows?

Regardless, this one starts where the last one left off.

And I was truly about to sell all my shares before someone figured out it had happened..

Within a few minutes, the price was reflecting $40.02 again. Not sure what caused it, but I sure did think I was going to be rich.

Alright, short version of a long story...

After moving in two years ago, our neighbors are finally throwing away all the trash in their backyard — some broken patio furniture, a bastardized patio table, and a couple of wood palettes.

They couldn't be bothered to clean up their yard during the time we lived here, but now that crazy neighbor lady's mother is going to have to find someone to rent our half of the place, I guess they had to be told to make it look presentable.

Speaks volumes about these people.

Why, oh why, do we use this garbage software!?

I've never worked in a Lotus Notes company until I took my current job. Everywhere else has used Microsoft Outlook.

I have no questions as to why. It's painfully apparent on a daily basis.

My Lotus Notes replicates every morning. It takes 35-40 minutes. I can barely use my computer during that time.

To change from one email to the next one, takes about 3-4 minutes to refresh.. so if I have 10 emails, it will take upwards of an hour to read them.

Pasting text from another source (Word document, browser window, etc) takes 20-30 seconds, and there's no telling what the format will look like when it actually pastes into the email.

Forwarding an email with an attachment takes 2 minutes, regardless of the size of the attachment. Moving email out of the inbox and into the appropriate folder takes just as long.

How is this at all appropriate? Imagine the cumulative loss of productivity over the span of say, a week. A month.

Why in the hell are companies still using this archaic piece of crap? You can't even search the text of emails for a word or phrase.

To date, the only "plus" I've found is that rules are stored on the server rather than in the client, which hardly outweight the "cons".

I'd truly forgotten just how much fun moving can be.

Typically, humans are said to need three basic items: Food, shelter and clothing

I guess one out of three aint bad.

All of our food is still in the refridgerator/freezer at the old house, and all of our clothing is still hanging in our closets, but everything else is now at the condo.

I had forgotten just how painful moving is. My entire body aches.