Long time, no post?
I'll spare you the excuses and just say things have been busy and I've been pondering my approach to this web journal. The Internet is such a wonderful place, however I know that sometimes comments made by people can sometimes come back to haunt them later. Especially in terms of finding employment.
So let me make this abundantly clear for those that are looking at my personal blog and are interested in me professionally:
1.) I'm human, I say dumb things at times. No question about it and I admit it freely that I will write things from time to time. However, I have been told that I behave well at work and I'm honestly not this crazy in real life.
2.) I'm not going to censor myself. After careful consideration I have decided that there is no reason to do so. The link on my portfolio site to this blog is because I plan on talking about projects and stuff from time to time.
I'm sure I'll have more to add to the list, but this is boring to talk about and I think it makes me look narcissistic.
Fun stuff now - things that are new: I have a new job that I started in December. I work for Ag Leader Technology part-time as a an associate engineer. For those that don't know - Ag Leader makes precision farming products that can do all sorts of cool farming things such as yield monitoring and automatic steering using GPS. I do like it and since it is part-time it gives me time to work on stuff with Open Engineering and 'donate' time to the SSOL.
I have plenty of other things to occupy my time too. Matt and I still play World of Warcraft. Makes things interesting considering he plays mostly Alliance and I play mostly Horde.
I'm also obsessed with the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle' lately. Every once in awhile I get totally addicted to one movie and have to watch it over and over again. I'm sure Matt very well remembers the 'Emperor's New Groove' addiction back in 2003. In fact, I'm sure he still has nightmares about it.
I've also been studying for my Extra class amateur radio license since the Morse code requirements were dropped recently. I have been waiting since I got my Technician license way back in 2000 to upgrade my license. Last year I gave up waiting and decided that the FCC didn't care or wasn't willing to face the wrath of OMs and forced myself to take the General test and start studying for Morse again. About 2 weeks after passing the written test, the FCC comes back and says 'nah nah we're dropping morse code.' Figures, it would happen like that.
So bright and early on Saturday morning, I will be going to the CARC testing session to pony up my $14 to get my general upgrade. Note, that I don't need to take the test again since I have my CSCE from December. But I figured since I was paying the cash anyway I might as well try for my Extra.
Enough for now - Matt is pestering me for the laptop. Post more later.