Jeff’s Blog

This is what a clearcut covered in heavy snow looks like:

But seriously, I went up to Scottish Lakes High Camp this weekend for a bit of rest and relaxation in the backcountry away from anything having to do with running water or electricity. There was quite a lot of snow up there compared to [...]

This evening, Robert and I grabbed dinner up at Hopvine on 15th. While sitting there eating my pizza, I glanced out the window, only to see that it was snowing rather big, wet flakes. It’s very unusual to get snow this late in the season here. It’s perhaps even stranger because the [...]

Earlier today I was thinking a bit about what I wrote on Sunday morning about frustration and my life. As part of that, I decided to use the search function on this blog to see what I’d written before on the same theme. In fact, I even searched for the word “ennui”. [...]

magic quotes in PHP.
I don’t have access to the Apache or PHP configuration files to turn this off at the source and, of course, my web host doesn’t allow this setting to be turned off in an htaccess file. So, the only way I can solve this problem is to call stripslashes [...]

I downloaded the new version of Safari the other day when it showed up in my software updates. It seems to be working fine except for one really weird thing–space bar no longer pages down. This is really frustrating because somehow I’ve apparently trained myself to hit space instead of “page down” while [...]

This morning (or really later this morning I should say), I’m not feeling angry any more. It’s amazing what a good night’s rest can do for that. However, I’m still feeling anti-social and generally dissatisfied. The line cutting just seemed to strike a nerve which unleashed other frustrations I’ve been thinking about [...]

I’m angry right now, although it’s fading somewhat as time goes on. What set me off was having to wait 25 minutes to pay my tab and get my coat at the Cuff. The lines were moving extremely slowly, not so much because they were long, but because people kept fucking cutting in [...]

Now that I got that problem straightened out with Fidelity this morning (even if it was their fault), I was able to finish my taxes. I have both the 2007 return and the amended 2006 return done. I need to go to the doctor tomorrow morning for a followup on the abscess “procedure” [...]

I started doing my taxes back in January but hit a snag that’s caused me to procrastinate finishing them. It all started when I had to recharacterize a Traditional IRA contribution into a Roth IRA contribution for 2006 in early 2007 because I realized I had exceeded the income limit for deductibility of Traditional [...]

I escaped for the weekend down to Oregon to visit my parents. It was a pretty standard trip all told. Got to see my parents, watched them bowl at league night with their friends, saw the new horses, played some Wii (my mom recently bought one and my parents have been playing it [...]