New Beginnings
First real post on a brand new blog. For those of you new to me, welcome to my page. To those of you coming here from my LiveJournal, welcome back.
It's been a while since I really posted anything, so I'll just try to keep things as brief as possible so as not to bore you to death with the details.
First off, and probably the most significant, is that I lost my job working for the Durham Contact Centre. The cause really wasn't their fault, nor was it my fault; the environment they were trying to create was simply one that didn't sit well with me. It was a sales-dominated environment, and I was more concerned with technical prowess, which wasn't rewarded too much. So I got out of that.
Second, I got another toenail removed. This one wasn't nearly as bad as the first one, but it did bleed a helluva lot the first day--so much, in fact, that I couldn't even soak my foot in epsom salts because it just kept going. Thankfully it didn't keep up the next day and things went smoothly from there.
Third, I've been trying to read thru a new programming book, C++ Primer, 4th Ed. It's been going slowly, but I've been making somewhat of an effort to read a bit everyday, or at least carry the book around to look semi-intelligent.
Forth, I got my laptop from Durham College finally. It's an IBM Thinkpad that dual-boots WinXP and Fedora 4, which is cool, but they said that the Fedora installation can't connect to the school network, which I personally think is bullshit and shitting on those of us who would rather use a Linux environment for our work as opposed to Windows XP. I think all I need though is a VPN client to connect to the school network since the WAP is already open and auto-connects.
Fifth, my family appears to be conspiring with each other to get me to find a woman. I told them it wasn't a concern right now--I seem to find lying easier these days--and that they needn't concern themselves. My mom brought up the waitress at Denny's who used to go to high school with me as a candidate. My immediate reaction was to blurt out "I've thought about that since 10th grade, but she's outta my league!," but my brain ordered that my voicebox be shut down at that very moment, so nothing really came out. Besides, she heads back to Thunder Bay in, oh, I don't know...a week to pursue her final year of teaching and then probably off to some other part of the country never to be heard from again. What I should've said to kill the conversation was "I'm fat, ugly, and have nothing to offer a woman," but my brain held a town hall meeting and concluded that the resulting pep talk was way more embarassing than the current conversation, so those plans were cancelled.
Finally, I'm breaking away from LiveJournal simply because I feel that I need to start at least somewhat fresh, given that it's been nothing more than one huge emofest. Besides, my journal is public, so it doesn't matter where it is, just so long as people can read it.
Oh, and Google is cool.
It's been a while since I really posted anything, so I'll just try to keep things as brief as possible so as not to bore you to death with the details.
First off, and probably the most significant, is that I lost my job working for the Durham Contact Centre. The cause really wasn't their fault, nor was it my fault; the environment they were trying to create was simply one that didn't sit well with me. It was a sales-dominated environment, and I was more concerned with technical prowess, which wasn't rewarded too much. So I got out of that.
Second, I got another toenail removed. This one wasn't nearly as bad as the first one, but it did bleed a helluva lot the first day--so much, in fact, that I couldn't even soak my foot in epsom salts because it just kept going. Thankfully it didn't keep up the next day and things went smoothly from there.
Third, I've been trying to read thru a new programming book, C++ Primer, 4th Ed. It's been going slowly, but I've been making somewhat of an effort to read a bit everyday, or at least carry the book around to look semi-intelligent.
Forth, I got my laptop from Durham College finally. It's an IBM Thinkpad that dual-boots WinXP and Fedora 4, which is cool, but they said that the Fedora installation can't connect to the school network, which I personally think is bullshit and shitting on those of us who would rather use a Linux environment for our work as opposed to Windows XP. I think all I need though is a VPN client to connect to the school network since the WAP is already open and auto-connects.
Fifth, my family appears to be conspiring with each other to get me to find a woman. I told them it wasn't a concern right now--I seem to find lying easier these days--and that they needn't concern themselves. My mom brought up the waitress at Denny's who used to go to high school with me as a candidate. My immediate reaction was to blurt out "I've thought about that since 10th grade, but she's outta my league!," but my brain ordered that my voicebox be shut down at that very moment, so nothing really came out. Besides, she heads back to Thunder Bay in, oh, I don't know...a week to pursue her final year of teaching and then probably off to some other part of the country never to be heard from again. What I should've said to kill the conversation was "I'm fat, ugly, and have nothing to offer a woman," but my brain held a town hall meeting and concluded that the resulting pep talk was way more embarassing than the current conversation, so those plans were cancelled.
Finally, I'm breaking away from LiveJournal simply because I feel that I need to start at least somewhat fresh, given that it's been nothing more than one huge emofest. Besides, my journal is public, so it doesn't matter where it is, just so long as people can read it.
Oh, and Google is cool.
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8/23/2005 09:47:00 p.m.
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