Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud Tuesday, 2025.12.02 
As a Russian co-worker once told me, "Americans have a silly idea about
communism. It wasn't that if you told a joke about Brezhnev, the secret police
would arrest you--it was that you'd lose your job. And in Russia, there were no
other jobs." When the government controls your paycheck, your housing, and your
ration card, it doesn't need to put you in jail; you are in jail.

		Megan McArdle

2008.07.08

What A Difference A Door Makes

Wow.

I’ve wanted a new front door for 14 years. It was always on the plan…for next year. It closed. It locked…mostly. And there was always some other priority. Usually something cancer related. So it stayed. Today, that changed. Before…

And after (but still untrimmed and unpainted)…

For the first time ever, my front hall is filled with natural light in the evening. It makes it look and feel more like a home than it has in near 4 years. Maybe there is hope yet for this house of busted dreams.

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2008.07.09

Fixed typos and grammar.

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