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Boundaries
So an ex-girlfriend finds you on Facebook and contacts you out of the blue 12 years after the fact. What do you do?
1. Jump up and down like a giddy schoolgirl because someone’s interested enough to find you after all that time?
2. Passive-aggressively sit on the message?
3. Tell her exactly what you never had the chance to tell her?
Although option 2 crossed my mind, I thought it best to handle it a little bit differently.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on June 9, 2009
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2009/06/boundaries/
Dealing with being laid off
Well, it’s been just over a year since I was laid off from the only job I was ever willing to relocate for. Layoffs are never fun. Looking back, with the perspective of a year and two days now, it was the best thing that could have happened to me.
But I’ll be honest: That doesn’t make it hurt much less. But I know the shoes I was in a year ago try on someone new every day, and every year around this time, one or more of my former coworkers finds themselves in those shoes. I don’t know if I can help, but I’m going to try.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 14, 2006
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2006/05/dealing-with-being-laid-off/
Some baseball players entertain; Dave Dravecky changed my life
This evening I looked at the list of short biographies I’ve written. Some were requests. A number of them were people I found fascinating. And in the case of Lyman Bostock and George Brett, they were men who changed the way I lived life.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on August 27, 2003
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2003/08/some-baseball-players-entertain-dave-dravecky-changed-my-life/
News flash: Windows is cheaper than Linux!
Lots of people asked me today what I thought about the IDC study that says Windows is cheaper than Linux. I yawned.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on December 3, 2002
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2002/12/news-flash-windows-is-cheaper-than-linux/
Where does faith come from?
Following closely on the heels of the question of how to pray, people often ask me where faith comes from, and where they can get more of it.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on July 21, 2002
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2002/07/where-does-faith-come-from/
My spiritual journey
I guess this is as good of a time as any to write my spiritual autobiography. It’s not as long of a story as some–years of apathy have ways of shortening stories.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on July 8, 2002
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2002/07/my-spiritual-journey/
Big trouble
Getting in trouble. At work, we use a content-filtering application called Websense to keep people from visiting sports sites and porn sites and checking their stocks at work. Prior to its installation, one of the most commonly visited sites in our firewall logs was ESPN.com. Well, I set off Websense this afternoon:
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 20, 2002
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2002/02/big-trouble/
And I passed the test…
They got my test results back yesterday, and according to the late Professor Emeritus Wolfe’s analysis, I have the potential to be a competent computer programmer. Of course my high school CS instructor could have told them that and charged a lot less money for it.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 6, 2001
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2001/10/and-i-passed-the-test/
12/14/2000
Jumbo HD woes. My 15-gig Quantum drive mysteriously started working right from the regular UMDA-33 controller on my Abit BP6 yesterday. Totally out of the blue. That’s what makes this problem so maddening; it’s intermittent. I’m going to stick with keeping the drive connected to the UDMA-66 controller though, since this is a UDMA-66 drive.
And my March article for Shopper is almost complete. I need to come up with a good lead and a good closer, figure out whether I can fit one more trick into the 200 or so words I have left, and then fire it off to London. I could have done another book rehash but I decided to write this one from scratch, and I think it’s pretty good.
A useful modems link. Modems are mostly a thing of the past for me, but I know a lot of my readers (especially those in the UK) aren’t so fortunate. There’s a large and authoritative guide to modems at http://modems.rosenet.net/ .
Snow. There’s a family from Michigan who recently joined our church. I remember one of them saying recently, “I keep telling the kids it doesn’t snow in Missouri.”
Well, not quite like it does in Michigan. But the seven inches or so of the white stuff sitting on the ground outside right now testifies that it can snow in Missouri. This isn’t Florida. So I’m guessing this was a bit of a rude surprise to them–not that they can’t handle driving in it.
Rick Sutcliffe may return to the Cubs. As a television analyst , not as a pitcher.
The Chicago Cubs are looking for a replacement for longtime analyst Steve Stone, who retired this year. Rick, who’s worked for the last two seasons as a part-time analyst for ESPN and for the San Diego Padres, is one of the candidates to replace him.
Rick and I are cousins, which explains the strong feelings I have about the Cubs, the team where he had the most longevity.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on December 14, 2000
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2000/12/12142000/