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Job Offer

Well, my old boss back in Chicago pulled through and made me a job offer. I asked for 45K and a 5K moving bonus. I received a job offer letter for 43K and a 4K moving bonus and a 30-day “free stay” at the company residential “service center” place. Medical starts right away. 3 weeks […]

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Insulin Calculator

Put this Insulin Calculator (scroll to the bottom) at the top of the list of things I wished I’d been made aware of when I first got diagnosed. It probably took me about 6 months to figure out the exact same conversation rate (base sugar number, plus amount of carbs you want to eat =

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Sugar Acrobatics

I’ve been having some issues with my sugar since I got back from Spain, so I’ve been running numbers like this (as a refresher: a normal person has a fasting glucose of about 80. I need to stay under 150. Over 200, you do permanent damage. I record three times a day: before breakfast, lunch,

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Infidel

I’ve spent the last couple of days devouring Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel. It’s been a long time since I devoured a book with this kind of desperate hunger, and I think my compulsion to lock myself in my room in order to finish the book surprised even me. Hirsi Ali is the Somalian-born former Muslim

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The New Routine

Called in available to my temp agencies and scheduled another interview for tomorrow at 10am with yet another temp agency. That’ll be three agencies I’m registered with. In the meantime, on my tax forms, I put down that my occupation was “writer.” It felt much better than writing “employed.” Anyway, more GW edits. The book’s

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And So

If I declare myself and business and report my writing income ($4500), then I owe $1221. If I don’t declare myself a busines and report my writing income ($4500), then I owe $421. This probably wouldn’t have happened if I’d kept all of my con reciepts. EDIT: Final Federal taxes owed: $553 Yeah, right! I

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What Keeps Me Up At Night

“God’s War is a 97,000 word fantasy novel of faith, blood, betrayal and submission played out in the contaminated deserts of Nasheen, a matriarchal state engaged in a centuries-old holy war with polygamous Chenja.” Hm, no, that’s not right. I typed: Polygamous. No, that means multiple partners of either sex. What’s more than one wife?

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