jaxom green's Diaries
Kids, mourning and atheism
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jaxom green (Mon Jun 28, 2010 at 02:25:04 PM EST) (
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We had to put our dog to sleep on Friday night. Now I have to help my kids through the grieving process but the words that come most naturally to mind to describe the cycle of life and death in theistic terms. The problem is I'm an atheist.
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Rest in Peace Gail, and thank you for waiting until today
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jaxom green (Thu Dec 25, 2008 at 08:24:11 PM EST) (
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Shortly after midnight my mother in law passed away.
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Please just one more day
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jaxom green (Sun Dec 21, 2008 at 06:25:24 AM EST) (
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Even just thirteen hours. I really don't want my mother in law to die on my wife's birthday.
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Bad things really do come in threes
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jaxom green (Tue Nov 25, 2008 at 09:49:24 AM EST) (
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1. MiL's fight with cancer will end soon
2. Layoff
3. Audit
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It was a good weekend
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jaxom green (Mon Sep 08, 2008 at 12:45:40 PM EST) (
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Started out on a possible downer since it was a funeral/memorial service but it turned out great.
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I miss DU's entries
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jaxom green (Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 11:28:37 AM EST) (
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Yeah, this long time lurker, very infrequent poster is going through a fit of nostalgia. His diaries about fun ways to insert math and science into play time with his children were fascinating.
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I'd already like to erase 2008 and it's not over yet
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jaxom green (Wed Sep 03, 2008 at 09:47:14 AM EST)
fuck cancer (
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My mother in law is still alive, but that could change soon. Her cancer is spreading. Just the other day they found 4 new hot spots and that was in a localized MRI. She's very weak and had a scare with sepsis a month ago. Her port got infected and she spent time in the ICU before recovering. My father in law can be a giant asshole sometimes but it's clear he's suffering and doesn't know how to deal with the situation.
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I punched my father in law this afternoon
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jaxom green (Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 06:59:54 PM EST) (
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I punched my father in law this afternoon. Hit him right on the jaw. He was asking for it and I felt I had no choice but to punch him.
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Bad times ahead
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jaxom green (Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 07:18:07 PM EST) (
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Not looking forward to Friday and early next week.
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Dana Farber
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jaxom green (Tue Jan 15, 2008 at 06:22:30 AM EST) (
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My mother in-law will be riding to Dana Farber this afternoon. Hopefully the Drs there will have some sort of treatment that offers some hope. Otherwise the diagnosis of stage IV NSC lung cancer is not good.
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Fuck off cancer
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jaxom green (Thu Jan 10, 2008 at 04:57:50 PM EST) (
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I don't regularly post diaries here but I need a place to release. It's been tremendously helpful reading some of the recent husi diaries. In short my mother in law has gone from feeling a little worn down at Thanksgiving to "a couple of spots on her lung xrays" just before Christmas to admitted to the hospital today to prep for surgery on her spine to prevent the tumor there from paralyzing her.
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NFS shared lock file blues
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jaxom green (Wed Mar 15, 2006 at 07:16:24 AM EST) (
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Life at a startup is great, but it takes some adjusting.
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skunk
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jaxom green (Wed Mar 08, 2006 at 06:51:49 AM EST)
skunk,
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What do you do when your dog is sprayed by a skunk as you walk him late at night? What do you do about work the next day?
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Close encounters of the moose kind, part 3
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jaxom green (Thu Dec 22, 2005 at 06:10:02 PM EST) (
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Or what does one do with 270 pounds of moose meat?
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Close encounters of the moose kind, part 2
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jaxom green (Fri Dec 16, 2005 at 01:02:26 PM EST) (
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This time we weren't going to bother snowmobiling to La Casa de Fiesta. It was too much of a problem to find the trail, and everyone had to stay sober for the ride home. Sure last year when we took our sleds it was cool, there certainly was the novelty factor to consider, but it had worn off, and now we were just a bunch of guys concentrating on speeding across the snow and watching naked women at night. Speed and Sex, two of men's strongest urges combine in the frozen Maine woods.
Besides it was sure to be safer driving to Millinocket at night than snowmobiling. Or so we thought.
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Close encounters of the moose kind, part 1
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jaxom green (Wed Dec 14, 2005 at 05:02:17 PM EST) (
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It was finally winter again, and I was itching to ride. Snow had fallen in Clinton MA, but I was looking to avoid being held at gun point by the police again this year so I held off for now. My first trip to Maine was coming up soon. The snowmobiling could wait until then.
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Let the job search end
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jaxom green (Mon Dec 12, 2005 at 07:12:58 PM EST) (
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That went better than expected. I never even really shifted in high gear on the job search front, but I think I made the right choice.
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Let the job search begin
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jaxom green (Sun Nov 20, 2005 at 08:19:00 PM EST) (
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Anyone know of places hiring hiring design verification engineers with 10+ years experience in microprocessor DV in the greater Boston area?
In other words the bastards did it.
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