Chris Lanphear A thirty-something trying to find my way.

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I’ve gotta say, having used PC’s — and to a much smaller extent, Linux environments — for the past several years exclusively, Leopard is a damn fine operating system.  You’ve got to respect software that runs as well as it does on hardware it’s not even supposed to run on. A few of my friends […]

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Not much going on today.  I spent the day fixing problems with Leopard, researching apps, fixing my Vista Media Center problems and editing photos for a web development client.  Honestly, I could take today or leave it.  I’m glad I fixed the PC problems, but I felt like I was treading water all day.  The […]

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From Caveat Emptor: Nationwide Collections addresses letter to “SHIT FACE” — Just awesome.

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Today was supposed to be the start … and it wasn’t.  I was ready to go, but it was not to be. So I came home, ate some leftovers for lunch and sat.  I was ready to start today — that was the plan.  And it didn’t, so I didn’t know what to do with […]

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It’s been a long day, and I’m very tired, so this will be a short one tonite with a bit of a cliffhanger… Tomorrow starts what could possibly be a new chapter in my life.  Stay tuned for more details at some point.

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The more time I spend talking to others, the more I realize that every family is severely dysfunctional, extremely fucked up, or at least a little nuts in their own special way. Every family has at least one member that’s intentionally not discussed, conspicuously absent at family gatherings, or is just generally ignored. They become […]

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Okay, so I missed a day … and what’s worse, I have no excuse. It’s really sad, too.  I had committed myself to NaBloPoMo and was chugging along just fine.  And then three days in, I just plumb forgot.  As I lay in bed last nite at around 2am, I remembered.  “Oh noes!” I thought […]

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I just finished watching the excellent documentary by Charles Ferguson, No End in Sight [ official | Wiki | IMDb ] and it really got me thinking. Now, I try not to discuss politics of any sort here because the subject as a whole aggravates me, and I’m not about to change that policy now. […]

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The man cannot truly live unless he shares in the actions and the passions of his times. —Oliver Wendell Holmes I love music. All kinds, perhaps except for Country — and even that, there’s a small portion I can tolerate. I love, and have a soft spot in my heart for film — it’s an […]

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Welcome, Chris Lanphear! You are member #3800 of NaBloPoMo. I really have no idea why I’m doing this, why I would commit to posting an entry every day on this here journal, considering I hardly post once a month at this point, and that’s if I think of something to say, which doesn’t happen often. […]

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