…it’s time to get myself back into life.
Before I get into that, though, everyone should take a look at Sunbird, or the Thunderbird plug-in of the same, Lightning. Also check into Enigmail and Addressbooks Synchronizer. There’s also Tor (with the Torbutton). When everything settles out, that provides a portable, effective, feature-heavy, and reasonably secure workspace. I’d take it over my work’s LotusNotes any day.
Now, in terms of my life. First things first, I need to reconnect with people a bit. I know that I am good and involved, then fall away, then get back and forth — the social pendulum of my life. Well, it’s swinging back. I’ve got to call BHurt, because we have a lot of catching up we have to do — that’ll be this weekend, so we can save on our cellular minutes. I’m going to make an appearance or two at ΘΧ during Brotherhood Week later this month. I definitely need to get back to church, and as soon as the Committee on Preparation for the Ministry has taken me under care, I am going to transfer over to Bryn Mawr — I like the community a lot, and I like the fact that they’re an outspoken member of More Light Presbyterians and have a focused mission: St Anne’s Place. Still thinking about what I’m going to do with Masonry, if anything — it was definitely worth joining, but I haven’t found continuing to be around to be that rewarding. Maybe I will as I get older.
For work, my goal is to get myself represented as a vendor. I’m just sick of dealing with the entire head-hunter world, and I’m really sick of them taking my money. I’d rather take other people’s money, thankyouverymuch. As a strong motivating force, I’ve decided to stick around at the current place place of work until I find myself a non-headhunter-ed gig. Besides, even if I were to go out looking, the best I’m finding is a 4% raise, and the contracting market seems to be hitting the 4Q cool-down hard. I’ve simply advanced in title beyond my experience right now, so I think I’ve hit a bit of a wall until some time passes. Good time to pull my shit together, since I’m not getting much of an alternative.
Also need to plow through all my e-mails and phone calls. I’ve fallen pretty far behind. Spam’s killed my mailboxes, too, so I need to move over to a different address — probably going to shift to a different domain, too.
One thing that I’ve discovered is that One of tha Few has been a lifesaver. She’s been working hard at getting my shit organized, and she’s taking care of a lot of crap that I just am no good at handling — like mail, bills, accounting. Critical stuff, y’know, but it just kills my soul to do it. She’s wonderful, because she’s been tackling all that for me, and doing a nice job of it.
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