*sighs*

Well...the new project I'm on is so boring I almost fell asleep this afternoon. user migrations suck.  I need to get back to doing what I want to do - that being managing networks, not managing users.

Bleh.

Hitting the rack early tongiht, too damn tired to type much.  Night guys...

This evening, I got my last piece of my new PC I'm about to build.  I'd recently received some money from my Uncle Lou, who up until I saw him April 9th, hadn't seen in about 8 years.  A significant amout of money.  Enough money for me to be able to build my son his first PC (as a graduation gift for going into 5th grade - how time flies), build a ( Read more... )

*looks around his desk, noting the gatering clutter of computer parts, paid and unpaid bills, inch-thick layer of dust, artist's materials,  and DVD's of favorite movies past & present, and slowly shakes his head...*

"Wow...I've really been gone a while from here.  Maybe I should clean up a little bit."

*grabs a broom, a small plastic bag, and his ( Read more... )

Yeah...it's me again. still out of work, though that may change temporarilly with a 3-5 week project I'll be doing for Teksystems for an Asset management gig for IBM/AMEX. the Pay sucks ($14/hour), about 40% of what I grew accustomed to getting /hour before the IT community imploded, but it ain't unemployment...so it's good ( Read more... )

Well...this morning, at 630AM, while still at work, I receive a call from my agency, DirectFit. It was Rich, the recruiter who got me the interview there at Marsh 9 months ago. I knew what was coming next...and I was prepared for it ( Read more... )

You know...there are those days where the credo, "Sometimes You're the Windshield, sometimes you're the bug" comes into full effect ( Read more... )

That on a beautiful Saturday afternoon 9 years ago, soft breezes blowing, the scent of Forsyithia and Dogwood in the air, warm sun streaming down from a cloudless, azure sky, I was married to my wife, Nancy. It hasn't been an Idyllic 9 years ( Read more... )

Sometimes, life can through a fastball right in your wheelhouse...a pitch that you can knock out of the park. Sometimes, it can through you a eeeeevil curveball like Dwight Gooden used to throw before he got in so much trouble with the addictions which ended his career ( Read more... )

Well...this Memorial Day weekend was full of surprises. Discovered many things about myself that I never knew before...never felt before ( Read more... )

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