September 8, 2008 – 7:53 pm
My class starts tomorrow, not today. I read the confirmation e-mail multiple times, and absolutely tuned out the fact that September 9th, the first day of class, is not a Monday.
All was not in vain however; the area where the class meets has grown up a lot, especially for folks like me who [...]
September 7, 2008 – 2:04 pm
Tomorrow would have my first day on my new job in West Virginia. Instead, I’ll be in a class for some VMware book learnin’, and absent from the office all week.
We have a group calendar on which we enter AWS days1, vacation, days off, who has the stinking on-call pager, and the like.
I dutifully [...]
September 6, 2008 – 2:40 pm
Shall deter a beer run. We thought there was a break in the rain, and just returned from our 1.5 mile journey to our little convenience store, who have faithfully stocked MLB’s obscure brand of cigarettes, and our favorite Original Coors for years now.
We arrived back, dampish. The flood watches and warnings are being [...]
September 6, 2008 – 1:03 pm
The waxing and waning of the Hanna rain bands make me a little woozy. I think it’s over, and then here comes another wave. A wave of buckets, more precisely. And the wind is picking up a bit.
We’re warm, dry, powered up, and happy. Still, I’ll be glad when this is over. I gotta [...]
September 6, 2008 – 12:07 pm
The remnants of TS Hanna are passing over as I type this. Near as I could tell from the radar, the storm will track more to the south and east of where we are, and then take a turn northward up the coast.
Nevertheless, the rain bands are, well, banding up, and dumping rain in [...]
September 4, 2008 – 7:53 pm
Discerning readers will note that the right sidebar now no longer has Bridgeport WV weather, and that the West Virginia University logo that displayed randomly has morphed into a Kansas Jayhawk.
This is as it should be
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September 4, 2008 – 7:44 pm
After a lot of gut-wrenching moments, we’ve decided to remain exactly where we are, in regards to both residence and jobs1. The angst over the life/work situation came to a close today, about 20 minutes before what was to have been my farewell lunch, which turned into a salute to our team of admins, and [...]
September 1, 2008 – 10:26 am
Let’s recap. I have a good job that pays me well; it has given me the opportunity to be immersed in a variety of great technologies. In the main, I’m left free to build RPMS, Solaris packages, run a substantial server provisioning environment, and write neat little scripts that help in automating sysadmin [...]
September 1, 2008 – 9:32 am
That about sums up my condition at this point. I have a good job, another offer in hand, and prospects for yet another offer with a company I’d sweep floors to work for. It’s better to be in demand than not, though. That’s something for which I’m truly thankful.
It’s just that I never realized [...]
August 31, 2008 – 7:02 pm
From one who is a member of the tbbs-Land family, and whose technical advice, for better or worse, helped launch this humble blog, a note via FriendFeed, from Dragon*Con:
“Going to a party in Grant Park, leaving the protective bubble of the geekosphere. I’ll be back, I’m not ready to return to standard reality yet. You [...]
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