I’ve wasted so much time. There’s so much yet to be done. Caught in a miasma of routine that gets me nowhere.
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Love is fighting every day to keep someone who has no intention of leaving.
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Going to start moving the bulk of my social media activity over here. I’m not leaving Facebook, just trying to cut down on the amount of time I spend there.
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Back in Business

Welcome back to arokk.net. After a failure of the script I was using that I couldn’t seem to figure out, I did a complete reinstall…but forgot to do a backup, so…d’oh… But, here it is, reinstalled and rebranded as Arokkian Nightmare, a name that I have tinkered around with on Facebook, WordPress.com, and other places […]
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Entitlement, or, Service Workers are Not Your Personal Servants

Today’s writing is a little bit ranty, but I’m not going to apologize for it: Have you ever been rude to a server in a restaurant simply because you are having a bad day? How about this one: Have you ever been more than five or ten minutes late to an appointment without calling ahead […]
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Working overtime, wishing I wasn’t, glad I have the opportunity, wishing I didn’t, but grateful that I do.
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I’m more than a little difficult, but I hope I’m worthwhile.
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The Exhaustion of Empathy

Yeah, I know. I’m the asshole. I revel in it. It used to be that I could verbally tear into anyone without remorse on little or no notice. I still can, and occasionally enjoy doing so, but those times are few and far between…

On the other hand, empathy can be exhausting.
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Change in the House of Flies

Those who know me personally know that I work 2 full-time jobs, and I refer to them as “The Job I Like” and “The Job I Hate”. The interesting part is that I hold the same position at each job, but they couldn’t be more different. Here are some examples of the differences. The Job […]
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Roots of a Habit

In my past, I was often referred to as an “intense person”. I used to adopt a single-mindedness that allowed me to accomplish a lot in whatever I was focusing on at the time. Some would call this trait “stubbornness”, while others would refer to it as “determination”. I just think it’s me being who […]
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