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Work Appreciation Day
I made a list of reasons why private companies usually pay their employees fairly. When an employee works hard, regularly, every day, for over 6 months When an employee finds themselves in possession of knowledge and experience
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Almost Ready
I’m almost done with the new site theme. It’s been a wild few weeks of Googling, learning blips and blorps of PHP and WordPress, getting real familiar with “The Loop”, and basically trying to make sure my code is functional first, and beautiful after. I’ll show you a preview! I like it very much, and am looking forward to…
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Leap
As someone who knows someone with a Leap Year birthday, I understand the daily struggle…nay, the bi-daily struggle, that arises from such a difficult life. When your baby brother, who is two years younger than you, celebrates his 38th birthday, while you are only on your 9th, it becomes a struggle for sanity, for peace. To…
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Grandstanding
Not only is everything all-inclusive, it has to be all about everyone nowadays. You can’t honor a great person without making sure someone else gets mentioned. Awards are given out like candy so no one’s feelings are hurt. Soon, there won’t be anything or anyone special left, because of social campaigns and activist groups and…
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View Count
If this blog was supposed to sell a product, I’m pretty much failing. It doesn’t help that anything I write is getting in just under the mark. I was hoping that by now I’d be in the habit of thinking about my next post throughout the day, taking notes, and having a mental outline to…
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View Count
If this blog was supposed to sell a product, I’m pretty much failing. It doesn’t help that anything I write is getting in just under the mark. I was hoping that by now I’d be in the habit of thinking about my next post throughout the day, taking notes, and having a mental outline to…
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Durham
I just spent the evening at the Durham Performing Arts Center attending The Lion King musical show. What a wonderfully-designed production. The stage, actors, props, costumes, everything, was brimming with color and cleverness. Durham strikes me as a city in the middle. A pothole of crime and ruined business on one hand, and a growing…
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How to Have a Successful Marriage (from someone who’s only been married for three months)
All around us, American culture tries to convince married couples that divorce is inevitable, and any relationship is only one doomed lunch and mishandled conversation away from utter failure. However, as a recently-married man in his early 20’s with a decidedly-conservative lifestyle and incredibly high opinion of himself, I’m here to tell you that marriage…