OK, for those of you who live "out of town", I present the following item from yesterday's local Baltimore-area news:

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/4415797/detail.html

It ain't often you hear a traffic report on the radio that says "The Baltimore Beltway has been closed due to bufallo."

So, in regards to Friday's post, I had a conversation with my boss today that was a little more private than the meeting on Friday.  He had some interesting things to say about his reasoning behind selecting me to man the Helpdesk.  Apparently, the fact that I'm the new guy is only the excuse he used to justify selecting me, without ruffling any ( Read more... )

So, after my initial month-long "trial period" at the new job ended on March 15th, they transferred me from the main building to one of the other buildings we support, moving me from a tiny cube to a fairly large office in the process. As well, I've been out in the field interacting with the user community and getting to stretch my troubleshooting ( Read more... )

So, on February 14th, I start a new job. I'll be working at the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, as a Senior Desktop Support Specialist. The company is Perot Government Systems, but there's a little oddness there -- since a recruiter found me, I have to put in 90 business days with their agency before ( Read more... )

So, it's finally official -- we own the house! We settled this afternoon, and as of 4:20 PM today, we are officially homeowners! The sellers are renting back from us until the end of January, and we'll move in around Feb. 5th. We gave our two months notice to our landlord earlier this week, so we'll have a few weeks' overlap to get everything ( Read more... )

Okay, so, I know I haven't posted in a couple of years, and an awful lot has happened since then. Getting hit by a truck and spending 6 months out of commission... Moving in with Shari... Getting married, and the honeymoon in Alaska... Getting my MCSE certification at long last... Oh, probably dozens of other things worth mentioning if they ( Read more... )

I got the job!!!! I start tomorrow morning at 8:00 AM. Sweet!

Okay, so PENREN wants me to come in today at 1:00 for an additional interview with the big boss... As I see it, this can mean one of two things: either they want to hire me but the director wants to meet me before he signs off on the paperwork, or the project managers couldn't make a decision and are bringing back 2 or 3 of us for a second ( Read more... )

So, as most of you already know, Shari and I did not get to spend the week together after all -- her grandfather passed away on Saturday, requiring a short-notice trip to Alabama for the funeral (which was held today). She'll be getting back sometime on Saturday or Sunday, which pretty much covers her entire Spring Break ( Read more... )

Today was the third and final day of FOSE, and my unbelievable string of luck continued... Won a t-shirt and a Targus leather tri-fold PDA wallet ($70 value) from MicroWarehouse. This brings my total haul for this year's show to $860 worth of software and accessories, 4 t-shirts, 60 pens, 8 highliters, a pile of notepads, a neat litle toolkit, a ( Read more... )