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Time Shift

16 September 2009 Comments Off

It’s almost 4pm here. Why am I staring at the clock? I’m at home, and I’m about to go to work. Starting tonight, I’ll be at work from 6pm to 6am (which is 10am to 10pm Central). I stayed up until 4am this morning so that I could sleep late today in an effort to [...]

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One down, two to go

1 September 2009 Comments Off

Wow. It’s been four months, so I’m a third of the way through, with a three-week vacation coming up in November. Profound things, we remember. One of mine was in the Air Force basic military training as a two-weeker, looking up to a sixth-weeker telling us how he’s almost done, and how “time will pass [...]

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I wrote software! (kinda)

19 June 2009 0 Comments

I’ve written many applications in various languages, and most are web-based. As far as web-based, my language of choice is PHP because it’s easy to use, can be object-oriented, free of charge, and supported by nearly all web servers. I really like ColdFusion, too — the tag-style syntax is really slick, but it’s expensive. This [...]

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Plenty to Do

4 May 2009 Comments Off

I finally started work last week. I was able to get my CAC card last Wednesday. That was a bit of an ordeal, but that’s another story. Also, it turns out my security clearance was in good enough shape that I could start working immediately.

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Travel, Skype, and Marriage

22 March 2009 0 Comments

Well, folks, I’m going away. Just for a year, though, to Qatar. General Dynamics, one of the largest defense contractors in the world, has offered me a Systems Administrator position at the Al Udeid Air Base, and I took it. If you ask anyone who’s in a position to leave home for a year, they’ll [...]

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I has new toy

18 June 2008 0 Comments

I wrote a moderately long story about how Ener-Tel let me take my work cell phone number and port it to a personal cell phone plan. I wrote about the story and the reasons behind it. I wrote about the phone itself, and how it is the perfect tool for both work and pleasure. When [...]

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Thought I couldn’t do it

24 May 2008 Comments Off

This past Thursday (and on into Friday, too), I worked in Sweetwater at one of the Travel Centers of America. You may have seen these large truck stops with the blue and red TA signage. I am one of two employees at Ener-Tel who can work on Nortel phone systems, and the TA had a [...]

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Death of a Colleague

6 May 2008 Comments Off

I received news today that the president of Loytec Americas was killed in a car accident a couple of weeks ago. Al Mouton was not a close friend of mine, but his death was shocking to me, and I haven’t been able to shake the feeling all day.

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Back to School

6 September 2007 Comments Off

So it’s the end of the second week of school, and so far, so good. I’m taking Botany, Chemistry, English II, and Algebra. Both science classes have a lab. I’m taking 14 hours this semester, but so far, it doesn’t seem as bad as last semester. I guess I have this feeling that I’m a [...]

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Back to school

6 January 2007 0 Comments

Well, classes start on the 16th, and so I’m down to my last week of freedom. I’ll still be putting in 40 hours per week at work while trying to cram in 13 hours of school. The VA will be paying me $1,075 each month, and that just just barely covers my tuition. The only [...]

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