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Alarm clock costs money when you hit snooze: I could use something like this, since I have no motivation in the morning. I’d never, ever, put any of my financial information into this thing, though.

Except, that this week managed to be one of the worst I’ve had to experience in a long while, and (we hope) will already rank as one of the worst of the whole year. I started a new job, which should be fun, but I came down with a bad cold the day before I was to start, and the weather here in California (lots of rain, with some snow on the dread’d Highway 17) made commuting that much worse.

I hope that clearer weather and clearer sinuses will bring better news here. I’ll be busy, though.

I bought myself some home entertainment gear, since I recently had the opportunity to cash out a bunch of unused vacation time.

This is the first time I’ve bought a television, or any kind of entertainment devices aside from computers and the iPod (before now, my parents had bought the televisions and video games). This is also the first high-definition, flat screen television I’ve owned — previously, I only had huge CRT televisions, and occasionally craptastic tiny ones for the dorm room.

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I’ve left Seagate Technology. Today was my last day.

On Tuesday I’ll be starting a new position at a small biotech company, and hopefully I’ll get the chance to write about some interesting things that I’m doing there. This was the first job I’ve ever resigned from, and it’s a very bittersweet experience — I’m moving on to something hopefully more interesting, which will have greater impact, and which won’t suffer from any large corporation bureaucracy, but I’m leaving behind a number of people who I care a great deal about, and liked working with.

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