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It's Just Marty: 09/04/13
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September 4, 2013. Aka Change Is Hard. I turned 50 almost a month ago. It really wasn't that big of a deal. I had a nice party with lots of friends and booze and enjoyed myself. Of course, that party happened 3 days before I hit the big 5-0, but still had a good time. Which is what the goal of writing all of this is supposed to do. incite change. Change is hard. Changes are difficult. They need to happen, but the comfortable state is settling for the easy way. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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It's Just Marty: 14 Years
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December 29, 2013. I didnt post much out here this year. Which means I didn't complain much. Even though I had a lot to complain about. No, I want to end 2013 on this particular blog on a mostly positive note. A major postive change and moving forward. Yet, making her papa proud and happy. And elated I was. A bit emotional on Christmas morning as well, as I was able to wake up with my daughter in the same house in that same 14 years absense. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Published writer of fiction and short stories. Over twenty years of writing including a PDA-focused newsletter in the early 90's (Take It With You), an attempt at a gadget magazine (Portability! And numerous freelance work for various tech journals, including Service News, NPA and ComputerEdge. Blogging at Adult Beverages. 2012) - alcohol and drinking posts and updates; Banal Leakage. 2008) - personal blog, covering music and random subjects; and Chillywilly.org.
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It's Just Marty: Changes Hard
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September 4, 2013. Aka Change Is Hard. I turned 50 almost a month ago. It really wasn't that big of a deal. I had a nice party with lots of friends and booze and enjoyed myself. Of course, that party happened 3 days before I hit the big 5-0, but still had a good time. Which is what the goal of writing all of this is supposed to do. incite change. Change is hard. Changes are difficult. They need to happen, but the comfortable state is settling for the easy way. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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It's Just Marty: Expected vs. Willing
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April 26, 2013. Expected vs. Willing. For my first post of 2013 (and the first in over 4 months), I decided to tackle the topic of expected and willing. That idea is where we as a human race fail. We like and crave praise, but it rarely happens. Yes, it actually does. But saying something to that effect might have you come across as expecting them to accept you as a willing participant and not as an expected member of the community. I'm willing to accept that expectation. April 27, 2013 at 10:10 AM.
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It's Just Marty: Life is Just a List of "Don't Do That's"
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August 10, 2012. Life is Just a List of "Don't Do That's". So last night, I was scheduled off bowling on the summer league. There was a concert that I was planning to attend, but the band canceled and none of the people I had planned to go with were still wanting to go see the replacement band they scheduled. So instead, I decided to go cheer my team on while they bowled. This is not new. There have been many times in the years we have been together that there are things I do that bother her. Slu...But i...
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It's Just Marty: Rediscovering Passion
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October 9, 2013. This blog is many things to me, but for most of the posts I've created out here, they have been complaints about my life. My last post talked about making changes. Most of these changes are related to things I am passion about, which is changing what I do for a living. After 28 years as a Network Admin, I am needing/wanting a change. I keep thinking I will reach that point of "I CAN"T FUCKING TAKE IT ANYMORE! I must simply find the best and most effective way to work through my personal ...
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It's Just Marty: 12/05/12
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December 5, 2012. There are days when I feel like a second rate person. I'm an overall positive person, some of the positions I have allowed myself to be placed in make me feel less optimistic about many things. While my wife and I have a great relationship, there is some intimidation that goes on, as I've blogged about before. Grow a set of balls. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A place for me to cover topics that I don't normally discuss over at Banal Leakage. View my complete profile.
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It's Just Marty: Trivia Geek, Seeks Like Minded Individuals
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February 11, 2015. Trivia Geek, Seeks Like Minded Individuals. For the last many days, I have had this thought in my head about wanting to meet fellow geeks. Ones that love trivia. Music and movie trivia. Let me outline this out as best as I can. I get that they are not interested, but why are there not more people like me that love this stuff? I'm not quite there with movies, like who won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1983. For that, I would have to go to Wikipedia or IMdb. But I wou...Maybe...
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