the end

After 4 1/2 years of marriage, my wife and I have decided to part ways. In the end it boils down to her bipolar disorder and my inability to handle it. Despite all the bad things that have happened, I still love her and care about her. Maybe, hopefully, we can stay friends after the divorce is finalized and all the emotions die down.

who knows...

home again

I'm back home in Jacksonville. We're staying with my dad until we can get back on our feet. I have no idea how long that will take but I hope it's soon. We are still basically living out of suitcases. I'm forced to use my 6 year old 12" PowerBook G4 for my daily computing which includes job searching and communications. It's rough, but I'm getting by. It took a few weeks to recover from the actual move and start to feel better. I'm trying to fend off boredom but luckily the weather is wonderful and I've got my bike out of storage so I can get out and enjoy the weather as well as get some exercise so I can lose this excess weight I've put on. I've had a very promising job interview, but I will have to wait a while before I'll find out anything. For now, I'm just glad I'm back home in familiar surroundings and the stress of the past 3 1/2 years is behind me.

windows phone 7 ads are pretty dumb

How do you interpret the Windows Phone 7 ads on TV? What do the ads say to you as a consumer?

To me, the ads say "Our phones arent as exciting and enthralling to use as the other guys'. Our phones are boring." Their ads might as well be pushing my Motorola RAZR phone. I do one or two things with it and put it back in my pocket. I use my iPhone a lot. I play games, I have utilities that help me with my work, I surf the web, I do LOTS with it. MS tells me in their ads that "boring" is what they are going for.

it keeps getting piled on

So we finally found a buyer for our house. The problem is that with the repairs they want done, my wife's bankruptcy, and moving expenses I will be flat fucking broke by the time I get back to Florida. I will be in a worse situation than when I got out of college 17 years ago. I will truly be starting all over again and this is not the economy to be doing that.