Drew Burden

A nerd showers you with his opinions.

Entries for the ‘Life’ Category

Some time for a breather

Work in the accounting world is a hell of a ride this time of year.
Of course, that’s not to say that work in the accounting world isn’t a completely different ballgame anyway. We’re slammed to the max from January to mid-April, stress runs high and you tend to spend some late nights in the office.
I, [...]

Headaches suck

I was up at 8:30 this morning, believe it or not. I also had a splitting headache. In this sort of situation you are presented with quite a harsh dilemma.
When all you have in your medicine cabinet is a bottle of Lonelyt (spell it backwards) PM, and you have the choice of taking it and [...]

SWITCH

Geeks, look away. I am about to show everyone our worst nightmare: a horribly disgusting measure of slowness that will readily drive any of us to near suicide.

This stumped me for months and I eventually arrived at the point where I just didn’t care anymore. I blamed it on my computer’s NIC, and then just [...]

Longest week EVAR

So much has happened this week and I am surprised I made it out alive. Check it out.
Monday
I was working on billing stuff with Boss #2 in Henderson when his wife left to take one of the kids to grandma’s and grab food at Arby’s, if I remember correctly. She backs out of the driveway [...]

*checks calendar*

Hey, check out that date.

Jobs I’d like to have before I’m 30

Work can be a wonderful thing. I have my interests and I would like for those interests to be put to good use at one point or another. I don’t want to be a jack of all trades and I don’t want to be an ace of just one. As such, here is a short [...]

Large and in charge, but mainly in charge

I remember having a dream that I had 11 globes in my room. It started off at six, but in a matter of minutes it ballooned to 11. Here’s what DreamMoods has to say on the subject:

To see a globe in your dream, suggests that you need to step back and look at the wider [...]

“Sweet dreams” or “OH G-D THE THEMATIC OVERLOAD”

Taking a page from the old habits of the one and only Dariush on the titling here. It’s only appropriate since he has more than normal to do with the story I’m telling tonight.
You will quickly see where I’m going with the post title. My site (as well as a couple of others) are now [...]

Ohai there

It’s been so long since I blogged last. This will be interesting.
A lot of things around me are falling apart. Common Technologies is all but gone and I’m the one tasked with making sure the hosting customers get somewhere they’re taken care of. This somewhere will probably be DreamHost for most of them. Others currently [...]

Let’s try this, folks

I’m currently watching Fox News where Shep Smith is interviewing Bill Black. Everyone is bickering over what we shold do with these banks and their CEOs and this stimulus package. Here’s what I and no doubt many others think should happen:

Use this stimulus money to buy all stock in an insolvent bank/automaker/whatever. All of it. [...]