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Journal Em Emalb's Journal: Question 27

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So....

How are you today?

I'm ok. Excited to be finally on the path down to home ownership. I've lived in Atlanta for almost 5 years now, and have paid over $50,000.00 in rent. Yeah, it's time. Didn't even have to use my AK....today it was a good day.

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    Yesterday was extremely busy and today is the opposite of that, which is a nice break. I get a little extra time to practice my Katas (Karate forms) in my cube, my wife was whacking me when I told her that. "You should be working!". I am, but I'm in a reactive situation, all my superiors are off at other sites, so I'm waiting here for calls to fix things from them. In
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    Getting a straight answer out of them requires detailed trace analysis where we have to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they A)suck, B) have NO FUCKING IDEA how to code/design hardware to their own spec C)and their shit doesn't work and D) we suspect they are rigging their prices and are contemplating getting the FTC involved.

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  • Incoming EMail? OK
    Outgoing? BUZZT!
    Checking a file out of source control? BUZZT!

    Helpdesk have any answers? BUZZT!

    I'm useless today.
    • I'm useless today.

      I;ll just leave this one be. Consider it a free pass. ;)

      Gotta love that email. When you don't want it, you get tons. When you need to send out muy importante stuff, you can't.

      Let's try leet speak again.

      1t 5uxx0r5. ju5t l1k3 my l33t typ1ng. Can you tell I am a little bored at work today? Been nice so far. I think I may have just cursed myself though.
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  • I don't care what anyone else says, today is Friday.
  • Just got a 95 on a midterm I thought I dropped a 70 on.

    But I have a lot of grading to do and labs to cover from 5pm to 9pm... that sucks.

    I'm like the weather: its beautiful out but not warm enough to go shortsleeve *sigh*.
  • Partly sunny and about 60 in Sacramento ( a bit on the cool side as compared to last week). I am sneezing alot but that is typical for me in April through June. I have the day off sort of. I am working on a consulting job today at home. All in all everything is OK.

  • That's like $800 a month in rent :-O

    I've lived in Atlanta for 5 years and have spent under $30K in rent :-)

    I'm saving up for a house though. A whopping $4K so far, but you gotta start somewhere. Hopefully next year I'll be settled in my own home.
    • That's like $800 a month in rent :-O
      I've lived in Atlanta for 5 years and have spent under $30K in rent :-)

      Interesting perspective. Here in sunny SoCal I see $800/mo as pretty reasonable.

      • Depending on how much "stuff" you have, you might consider renting a room in a house, rather then a full-blown apartment. Chinese people in particular will rent out rooms real cheap. For a while I had rented out a whole basement (2 bedrooms, a big living room and a bathroom) for $400 a month. Got full use of the kitchen, including half the fridge space (some do keep their kitchens off limits, so if you go this route inquire before you rent). Then I got a new job and had to move closer to work, so now I
        • I guess my $per month for rent could be summed up in 3 words.....

          location location location. :)
          • Guess you must live in Buckhead then, or maybe right across from the Hyatt (my wife used to live there - $1000 a month for the room she was in!)
      • Suburb of Boston, $1k/month for a place that isn't all that amazing. :(

        No roommates though.

        I don't see how some people support a family on lower paying jobs.
        • No roommates though.

          Roommates are allways a crapshoot of meshing personalities. It can be good, or it can get really really bad.

          • Yeah, no roomates makes the rent almost reasonable, though the forced company of a roommate can be nice sometimes, if they aren't a complete jerk

            I've had 9 roommates and I'm only 23. I think less than half have really worked out.
  • Yesterday I woke up exhausted because my neighbors were playing basketball outiside my window until 2:30 am. Then my alarm didn't go off. Then I went to a lab where I didn't understand how to do anything. Then I didn't have my keys so I had to take the bus to work, which made me an hour late. Then there was the 4 hour long fiasco with printing inviations that had to be mailed today.

    Today is looking much cheerier. No major happenings. So, I guess that makes me content.
  • Congratulations, EquityMan!

    Speaking of Atlanta... I'm going to visit your city in September, [progpowerusa.com] and am thinking of turning it into some kind of bigger vacation, but haven't decided for sure. Good idea? Bad idea? Are there good ways for tourists to blow money in Atlanta?

    • The ATL has a lot of fun stuff to do in it, depends on what you are looking for.

      Give some specifics and I am sure me and the other Atlantan here can give you some ideas.

      Be wary of the traffic though. Atlanta makes DC look like fun.

      LA isn't even close. Yeah, I've driven in almost every major city....atl sucks pretty bad wrt traffic.
      • I don't really know what I'm looking for; these are very idle musings. :-) I'm into computer nerdy stuff (big surprise) and original reason for visiting Atlanta is a heavy metal concert. Beyond that, I'm looking for just about any ideas.

        Regarding traffic: this might be naive, but I thought I would try using your MARTA instead of renting a car.

    • Atlanta is a convention town, which means lots of hotels, lots of restaurants, [slashdot.org] lots of shopping, and lots of strip clubs and sex shops... ;-p

      I'm not too impressed otherwise, tourism-wise. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough. The Underground, World of Coca-Cola, the Margaret Mitchell House, CNN Center, Stone Mountain, Centential Olympic Park. There is stuff to do, it just depends on what interests you and how much time to have. Plenty of night clubs, too, so if you like that you won't be disappointed.

      If
      • Thanks for the restaurant journal link!

        There is stuff to do, it just depends on what interests you and how much time to have.

        Time isn't a constraint, it's something I'm trying to decide.

        Plenty of night clubs, too, so if you like that you won't be disappointed.

        I might end up doing some bar-hopping.. around midtown or buckhead, I guess? Hmm, hey, that gives me an idea, sorta. I should check to see if there are any good microbreweries or unique regional beers to try...

  • I got to call a bunch of geeks on slashdot FUCKTARDS for thinking they know more about a topic then I do! You may have read something in a book, but this is something I do every day, kid. Even though most are anony logins, it doesn't matter- He who laughs last, laughs for a really long time.

    so yeah. today is great. GO ME.
  • Bored.... I was late at work today (as always), we are ahead of schedule and my boss just doesn't have any work for me right now.

    I would spoil away all my time on slashdot, but they have didicated Internet PC's around here and it would look rather strange if that "highly paid external guy" (Ahem) would sit on the only Internet Workstation all day in an office with 30 people.

    For the rest, everything okay. Well, I had a hangover today but that's all the fault of that nice quarterly meeting we had yeste

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