{"id":2063,"date":"2009-02-28T21:56:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T04:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2009-02-28T21:56:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T04:56:53","slug":"what-im-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/what-im-up-to","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m up to.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kayti points out that I haven&#8217;t really posted anything about my life in several months. There isn&#8217;t really a lot new to mention &#8211; I&#8217;m still trying to get MetricMind to get me a replacement cable for my EV (apparently the company that made the original cables has been bought out, which caused all sorts of confusion). We&#8217;re thinking of moving in May or June to someplace slightly cheaper &#8211; or at least someplace that has central air. My court case finally resolved.. I&#8217;m pretty sure that I&#8217;m out a significant chunk of money even if I don&#8217;t need any further physical therapy, but for a wide variety of reasons that I will document at some later date, my lawyer thought that probably the settlement I got was about as good as I was going to do. I hate insurance companies, I hate the U.S. legal system. Nothing new there, though.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m moderately hopeful that the current economic collapse will help bring us one step closer to a world with a more sensible way of handling resource allocation. I still hate money. I still like Barrack, although I still can&#8217;t pronounce his name right and probably just mispelled it. I still love my cat, Allie, and he&#8217;s still adorable and (unfortunately) very sharp and a destruct-o-matic kitten-47. I&#8217;m still working on a web 2.0 application for a startup, and getting very close to beta on it. I&#8217;ve only got two clients (as opposed to five a few months ago) so I&#8217;m looking for some more peicemeil work to fill in the holes. I am still hopeful that sometime in the near future I can get a job writing software for EVs or AFVs. I&#8217;m still trying to get up the energy to drag the rack of recording gear (A\/D converters, tube preamps, and the like) to the living room where all the rest of the music gear has gone so I can start recording. I&#8217;m hoping sometime soon to buy a friend&#8217;s x86 mac and move my music recording software to x86 mac as it&#8217;s looking increasingly likely that the x86 macs are more reliable than their G4 cousins.<\/p>\n<p>Hm. I&#8217;m not sure what else to say. Me and Kayti keep discussing our wedding plans, off and on, and while I sometimes feel like I can&#8217;t breathe whenever we talk about such planning, I&#8217;m starting to look forward to it. I think. I&#8217;m slowly financially recovering from the last 3 months of 2008.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping to have paid off all my credit cards in June of &#8217;09. I&#8217;m trying to decide between several excessive expendatures to do after having done so \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been tracking the social internet as well as I&#8217;d like.. it&#8217;s been weeks since I&#8217;ve read my LJ friends page &#8211; although I&#8217;ve been doing moderately good at watching facebook. I&#8217;m developing sort of a love-hate relationship with facebook &#8211; I love the people that the site has attracted &#8211; many friends from a wide variety of my life &#8211; but I pretty much hate what the site itself does. \ud83d\ude09 I wish I could get the same people in a livejournal feed. Actually what I want is something halfway in between the many paragraphs of LJ and the single-line updates of facebook &#8211; and with better privacy controls than facebook has &#8211; and less confusing ones.<\/p>\n<p>I also want a world in which people don&#8217;t get fired for what their facebook photos show. I think it&#8217;s pathetic that anyone would be fired because facebook showed them naked in a hot tub or smoking a bong. Part of what&#8217;s wrong with this universe in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m dreading my taxes, but I&#8217;ve started the process of calculating them already. Also, I dread them less than last year&#8217;s, because I think Barrack is likely to do more things I *agree* with with the money. Less machines for killing people, more machines for making people&#8217;s lives easy and wonderful. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kayti points out that I haven&#8217;t really posted anything about my life in several months. 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