On a warm and hazy Friday morning, July 28, 2000, I pulled in to Austin in my red ’94 Mitsubishi Mirage with my first carload of possessions, just in time for my first big-city rush hour, with a wild dream but completely bedraggled from the overnight drive. Twenty-one years later, I’m still fuckin’ tired. I’m …
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Twenty
It is July 25, 2020. I have now been in Austin, TX for 20 years. I still question my decisions. It’s weird to remember back when I was this young, hopeful dude. Had a dotcom job waiting on me as I packed up 1/3 of my belongings in my ’94 Mitsubishi Mirage, waved to my …
Twenty Years
Ah yeah, forgot to post this. $ whois phaysis.comDomain Name: PHAYSIS.COMCreation Date: 2000-04-14T14:49:59ZUpdated Date: 2020-03-06T01:19:03Z Phaysis-the-domain is 20 years old this week. Twenty. Phaysis-the-site exists for about 21 years, since I switched from my The Farm subdomain hosted at my dialup ISP to my first CGI-enabled subdomain at a proper webhost oh so long ago. …
Ten and Eight
Today is 18 years in Austin. Long, hard road; long strange trip; yadda-yadda-yadda. I guess it’s pivotal that I closed a dark chapter in my life a few days before the anniversary. The new job is demanding, but I’m not feeling despondent yet, so I guess that’s something. Personally, it’s time to turn some things …
Year and a Day
Personally, I subscribe to the “one year and one day” concept in matters of learning a vocation, skill, belief, or hobby. During that period, a person is considered an initiate, a neophyte, a newbie. They may know a few things, but they’re only learning. They can’t be promoted to higher levels of trust during this …