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Here here… I’m here.
All is well in Taichung.  I will post more when I finally feel like I don’t need to be doing something else.

I’ve been hearing unofficially about this for quite some time.
Look at the date.  Happy Birthday.  Letter in hand and smile on face.

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Hello everybody.  It’s been a while.
First of all, I have to apologize to all of you dedicated followers of the patchesweaver.com blog.  For the past 6 months (wow, really?), I have adopted a one-track mindset and a healthy case of tunnel vision.  I have been living under a rock up here and have only come [...]

I just finished an 80+ hour work week.  Throw overtime into the mix and I get almost three weeks pay in 1 week.  Not too shabby.  If it wouldn’t destroy my health and make me neurotic I’d be up for doing it every week.
We’re working on my boss’s house.  It’s a small beach house on [...]

So finally. finally.  I have found a gig that can actually be classified as a “real” job.  It’s at a 150 person millwork shop based in Holden MA.
Woodmeister Master Builders.  http://www.woodmeister.com/
I went on a tour of the shop about a month ago.  The place is HUGE.  A bunch of offices surrounding an 80,000 sq/ft woodshop.  [...]

Finding work was tough.   I applied to a ton of places over the past month and a half.  Firms, construction companies, bars, a computer shop, teaching jobs, and even a hospital.
Dedicating yourself full time to getting a job is consuming in every sense of the word.  Nose to the grindwheel.  And it’s a rollercoaster.  uPS [...]

My recent stint with Mexican bartending and relentless continuation of a never ending application process to possible job openings has yielded a big fat mixed bag… of what? mixed feelings.
Mexican bar tending came to an end this past Thursday.  I didn’t necessarily quit and  I wasn’t necessarily fired.  It was more of a mutual agreement [...]

How better to belatedly ring in the new year than to have the map holding the visitor information of your website reset.  We were doing pretty well there for a while with reps from about 30 different countries checking out the patchesweaver. com.    My guess is that on the one year anniversary of the map, [...]

“Thank God it’s Friday” ? … No mas…  how about, “It’s Friday?…  WTF”
Friday; the night that signifies the end of the work-week and beginning of the weekend.  What do people tend to do on their Friday night?  Go to the bar.
In contrast to the majority of the world’s workforce, I am now probably one of [...]

Since getting back from Guatemala, I have devoted the vast majority of my time towards looking for work.  My days have consisted of following up on leads, talking to peoples’ various connections, and checking craigslist.  All of this seemed to point to a few potentially promising jobs that finally ended up leading to we’re-not-hiring-at-the-moment-but-we’ll-keep-your-information-on-file type [...]