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That as i am on hydrocodone right now, i have an intense love for everyone. Including the trolls. Everyone, give me a big hug. Thanks.

I need to buy/expense/check out from library/read online/acquire in some way a book about oracle, for sysadmins. I don't care too much about learning PL/SQL, becoming a DBA, or whatknot.. i'd just like to know more about the system interaction side of oracle.

I'm open for suggestions. I know O'Reilly press has books which may fit the bill.. but they really need "Oracle for UNIX sysadmins" in addition to "UNIX for Oracle DBA's"

I just got a job after exactly 4 months of being laid off. I have 4 months of mortgage payments to make, but my loan will be handed over to an attorney in 2 weeks. My new job provides more than enough funds to make my house payment, catch up on past due amounts, and save for future emergencies (something my previous job did NOT allow for.. skin-of-teeth budgeting. Took a huge paycut. Ate through what money i had quickly.)

My mortgage company, Homeside Lending, is run by Draco himself. They won't accept partial payments (even a penny off is a returned check), they are very, very hesitant to work with me. I asked them for enough time to get a paycheck in - and they gave me 2 weeks. This is their "big favor" to me. Its useless. Admittedly they are doing me a favor, but i just offered to shovel money hand-over-fist to them to get my mortgage current. They don't lose the loan and I don't lose my house. Seems like a win/win scinereo.
I have 2 weeks to come up with $1,900.00. No friends or family i can borrow money from - i wouldnt really want to anyway. My credit is shitty - my score is about 530. I purchaed my home for 98,000 and the appraised value is 105K (they just went up ont he value last year). I owe roughly.. 98K, still. I'm not sure how a home equity loan would work - i'd only want $2,000.00 out of it, and it would be paid back very quickly.

I'm asking Slashdot.. well, anyone who reads my journal, anyway, for advice on the matter - does anyone have any ideas on how i can save my arse?

I got a job offer today! A company i thought wouldn't pan out did. Almost exactly 4 months after being laid off. Unix sysadmin for a local healthcare company. Schweet pay/benes, too. I start either Wednesday or Monday!

im still jobless. this wouldn't be so bad if i could pay my mortgage. I mean, sitting on my tail all day has its advantages but it gets REALLY OLD after a while. Its kind of like staying home from school sick - you quickly find out that there isn't anything good on TV, none of your friends can come out to play because their all working, and you're too poor to do anything else entertaining, so you sit at home and read books you've already read and post to slashdot all day with meaningless posts which get moderated down to -1, Troll or -2, What the hell is this guy on

i've sold most of my dvd's on ebay and amazon. unfortunately most of that money went immediately to have one - just one - of my wisdom teeth painfully extracted. so you see, it never rains around here, it pours. But i think things may be looking better. There's a job on monster.com in the relatively local area that im qualified for! maybe i'll get it! i hope. for chrissakes - i cant even find a good contract. Local or otherwise! Just a few thousand dollars god, thats all i need to survive for a few more months! :( :(

Meanwhile, if anyone knows of anyone who wants to buy some x-men comics, e-mail me for my list. i'll sell cheap - under price guide values. Or if anyone, out of the kindness of their hearts, wants to donate cash to a geek in distress, feel free to paypal the cash to daniel_s_tate@hotmail.com. Sympathy letters also accepted. Spam too. Makes me feel wanted.