And Now, Something Completely Different
No, that title doesn’t imply that the blog will be changing any time soon. What it does imply is that, while I’m out of work, I’m trying some different things just to keep my sanity and to perhaps generate some money. The first thing I did was start contributing to HubPages, site that uses Google AdSense to help generate revenue for the writers. And so far, it’s worked: I earned one whole penny today! At any rate, go on over and check it out. A few clicks here and there definitely won’t hurt anybody and the more hits, the more revenue I can possibly generate. I may use posts that I’ve already w

And Yet Again…
It was almost prophetic the way so many little strange things that sort led up to what happened at work today. For one, I told one of my co-workers that it was going to be difficult to be at work today after a busy weekend. Second, my manager was referring to a specific program on her computer that, if I had access to it, would allow me to look up the information on my own. When she told me she’d get me trained on it I jokingly told her, “Oh, there’ll be no need for that.” “Why?” “I…I just don’t think that…anyway, here’s what I wanted to ask you,” I said as I changed the subject

Have We Learned Nothing?
While driving home from work the other day, I witnessed a curious sight that made me want to punch the face of the person committing the crime. I was sitting at a red light when I saw a teen driver on the opposite side of the intersection waiting for traffic to clear so he could make a left turn. As he waited to turn, I couldn’t help but notice the cigarette that was dangling

A Glimmer of Hope
In my previous post I had mentioned that we couldn’t afford to buy Ann’s Advair inhalers because of their ridiculous cost of $300 (without health insurance). This is when it pays to work in a medical center. After hearing of her plight from Ann’s father (who also works there), one of the local doctors decided that this wasn’t the way things should be and handed Ann’s dad the following: Two samples of Advair. Now the two of us can breathe again, A

Updating and Stuff
In the extremely unlikely event that the job market starts to get better and people start hiring, I’ve been spending this cool evening updating my resume and trying to do some networking through some job sites. Because something needs to happen–and soon. See, like most people, Ann needs to breathe in order to live. At the moment, it’s becoming rather difficult without the use of her inhaler which, when covered by my former health care provider, cost a measly $40. Measly = with what I used to get paid. If she were to get the same inhaler without insurance, it would cost fucking $300. That’s, like, a good portion of one of my lousy pa