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Out of Work and Loving It: How I handled my four-month jobless stint (Part 3 of 3)

[Josh's note: This is Part 3 of a 3-part series. Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here.] Slow and Steady Keeps Me Sane Once I finished my mental list, I had to start thinking about what I would do with all my new free time. 

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Out of Work and Loving It: How I handled my four-month jobless stint (Part 2 of 3)

[Josh's note: This is Part 2 of a 3-part series. Part 1 is here and Part 3 is here.] Work the Plan Since I started paying down the 0% card, I had also started considering what I would need to do if I lost my job. By

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Out of Work and Loving It: How I handled my four-month jobless stint (Part 1 of 3)

[Josh's note: This is Part 1 of a 3-part series. Part 2 is here and Part 3 is here.] After being out of work for almost five months, I’ve finally gotten a job offer. I consider this to be both excellent news and sort of a bummer. 

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(500) Days, and then what?

I finally saw (500) Days of Summer, and I liked it. A lot. But I also found it to be exceptionally depressing, although I couldn’t initially figure out why. The narrator is up front about what we’re getting into – “You should know up front, this is

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Need a story? Blame the refs!

Full disclosure: I’m a psychotic Florida Football fan. I spent almost six years as an undergrad at UF, and I’m there now working on my MBA. I may be biased. But so is everyone else who follows or reports on sports, so I’m not alone. In this

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Should Belichick have gone for it on 4th and 2?

All the pundits are discussing this tonight, and most of their discussions are worthless. Football is a game of numbers, maybe more than any other game. Ten yards for a first down. Four chances to get ten yards. Penalties are assessed in yards, and are intended to

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Machiavelli redux – I look back on me looking back on The Prince

Preface I recently bought a new laptop and, as I transferred my old stuff to my new laptop, I found this unfinished blog post.  I’m pretty sure I initially wrote this some time in early 2006 (possibly late 2005).  I wish I had found this before the

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Back-to-back tourney wins: Poker and… Foosball?

I should write this down so I don’t forget about it.  We had a doubles foosball tournament at work today and my team won.  Then I went home for an hour or so and got ready to go play a couple of single-table ten-dollar poker tourneys.   I

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My week, sans the work: Part 2 – Las Vegas

On Wednesday evening, I headed west to Las Vegas.  As it turns out, I also arrive in Las Vegas on Wednesday evening since time stands still when flying west (in the States anyway).  This demonstrates Superman’s superiority as Boeing can merely cause time to stand still, while

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My week, sans the work: Part 1 – New Orleans

I spent the last week traveling and blowing money. Only, not really blowing money, except for the traveling part. My first stop was New Orleans, where I played a $1K preliminary event at the WSOP Circuit stop. I’m not going to post a tournament recap because it

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