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A model system

 I figured California would be like all the other places I lived.  You know how it goes.  You're SO excited and everything is bright and shiny and new and then small bumps appear in the road and all of a sudden you realize that you're the same, and life is pretty much the same and stress is going to happen no matter where you live.   And then you wake up one morning, drink your coffee and you look around at all the boxes left to unpack after three weeks in the house.  Then a negative thought pop...

A Gagaducation

On Tuesday night, Drue and I drove to San Jose to attend the Lady Gaga concert.   I was concerned that the show, with its over-the-top theatrics and reported in-your-face sexuality might be a bit much for Drue.  That said, she's a huge Lady Gaga fan and tickets were somehow, amazingly, miraculously available (and they were GOOD tickets) so I made Drue a deal:  pay for a nice chunk (1/2) of your own ticket and we'll go.   Drue checked out her savings account balance, we chatted about the number o...

Year in review

Now that life has finally slowed down a bit, I wanted to take a moment and reflect on the last year.  Granted, it's been more than a year since I started writing here on lifeinflux (July 27th to be exact); however, there have been some pressing matters to attend to in the last 10 days.  What have I been busy doing, you ask?   Well, I just moved my family, my business, and pretty much my entire life across the country from Fairfax, VA to the Bay Area of California for example.   And since I own a...

Family Matters

When I was little, I wanted to be a world famous concert pianist with three kids and live in New York in an amazing flat in the Village and throw fabulous parties and have my entire family attend and I just knew I would be loved and adored.  Most importantly, I felt that I would have achieved a measure of success and my father would finally say those words I longed to hear, "I love you and I'm proud of you."  I knew adulthood would be my vindication after a rollercoaster childhood and that I wou...

Cat menopause, reboots and other randomness

I'm not sure whether I want to reboot the cat or simply boot her.   For the last three nights, Mimir has chirped and meowed at the windows starting sometime around 3 AM and ending when she decides it is time to nap at 9.   Of course, the window she does this from is mine.  And then, when she sees I am awake - because DUH! of COURSE I am awake - she comes over just in case I want to pet her.   This happens every hour or so until the sun wakes up whereupon the machine gun "At-at-atatatatatat" star...

Amending the 101…

I'm not entirely sure how to sum up the last seven days of my life.   It feels a bit like teleporting.   At least, it feels like I'd imagine teleporting would be.   You know, you start in one place and then you feel yourself get all split apart and then all of a sudden you're in an entirely NEW and different place but are all together.   The latest, newest and biggest news is that the Gloeges have gone all "I Can't Believe We're Not Vegan".    And by that I mean we're not truly vegan because we ...

Ode to my cat who chews cords

Mimir goes by many names - Meer, Meemsy, Pooh Bear, Tiger Cat.   And then there is my personal favorite - Mimir Damnit - which is probably the name the cat is called more than any of the others.    Granted, in the past, calling the cat "Damnit" has gotten me in trouble.   Who can ever forget their first call by their child's teacher asking that you come in for a meeting.  And who can forget the ensuing discussion of your child's family tree whereupon you find a picture of an orange blob with the...

Overwhelming randomness…

The other day, Jason whined that my posts on Lifeinflux are not as random and fun as my posts used to be when I was on Livejournal. He said that random and fun were the reasons people read as opposed to, you know, my insightful observations and words of profound wisdom.  Mom, stop chuckling.  I HEAR YOU.   I reminded Jason that sharing crap in my head frequently scares people off.    Jason's reply was "but I love peanut cookies" which means that in Jason's opinion scaring people off is fun and...

The real meaning of love (and tolerance)

I don't think any other image sums up Drue's and Mimir's relationship as well as this one. Do I need to say more?

2009 – A Year in Review

On December 31, 2008, I was sitting at Office of Personnel Management, sending out 45,312 emails to GoLearn users who were on the system but not paying for their usage.    I was also dealing with two new hires that I regretted hiring about a week after they were brought on board.  But they were my hires and I was stuck with them and all the good, bad and ugly of my soul-sucking job.  I hadn't yet lost all hope and accepted that the only good was the fat paycheck so with great naivete and hope, I...