OK, now that that's up and running, we should see more content here - at least in the rants.

See, a lot is going on right now. I'm getting ready to move. And divorce my wife of nearly 5 years. And I don't like any of it.
Most of what's going on can be found on her site, Frayedwire's Humble Abode. It goes through a LOT of what we've dealt with in the past several years.

Now, for me, I haven't worked in a year and a half. Rich? Me? Yeah, right. I'm nearly at the point where I need to sell this computer. There are NO jobs in this area. I say that to some (bill collectors, especially) and get a "Well, it's tough all over." No shit. But, no, it's not "all over," it's "5 two week long temp jobs at Wal-mart, 60+ people signing up, and no luck - just like the other 17 months."

I build computers. I do tech support (though I shouldn't do so any more, I no longer have the temperment for some of the idiots out there... "Why doesn't the computer come on? You didn't TELL me I needed to turn the screen thing on too!" Wish I were kidding...) I'd love to go back to ITT to go through their networking and webmaster courses - of course, you need money for that, which I don't have. Can't get a student loan - I haven't made enough money to pay my LAST one off.

Or any money, for that matter.

Which adds to the stress, yes. My wife is disabled. She needs someone around 24-7. I gave up a career to care for her. I gave up an apartment in Wisconsin, near my family, because she started having seizures - so instead of her moving out there, I moved back here to CFB (Coos F*cking Bay,) Oregon.

And it's gotten to the point where we have to divorce - not for lack of love, but because it's literally going to kill me at the rate I'm going. Highly stressed, affecting my health...

Hate to say that. But it's better to do it now, while we're still friends, I suppose. At least we don't have children to worry about. We wanted some, but... well, the miscarriage she had while we still lived in Florida (3 years? 4?) ago was a blessing in disguise, I suppose. I don't know how we'd have been able to care for a child with her going to the hospital as much as she had for a while.

Still, I hate to see this end.

I was going to move back to Wisconsin... but with the lack of money and noplace there to stay, it doesn't look like that's going to happen just yet. I'm probably making a 1-2 year stay in Portland at this point. Don't really like the city itself much, but we have a LOT of friends there. We'll see what happens.