Wednesday, June 30

The fun starts

Two days and counting. And I've already got my first gig for my new employer lined up. Going to help out a company that is stuck with a problem most of us Notes Admins have seen before. Admin ID with an expired cert. I'm pretty sure I can get around the problem but it may take a little time. And then I get to run a healthcheck on their systems. If this is idicative of their attention to the Notes environment, I should be busy for a while :-)

Friday, June 25

I quit!

One more week to go. I gave my notice last Friday and I'm preparing for a life on the road again. I thought I would have enjoyed working in an office environment again after a 3 break working as an SE for Candle, but it turns out I can't stand office politics and all the other BS you have to put up with working in a cube. So I'll be working from home again (interesting proposition this time around - Helen works from home now) and travelling to customer sites.
The company I'm going to work for, RPRWyatt, is based in Phoenix AZ so I'll be spending time there for a while and also flying "all over the place". As far as I can ascertain, my territory will be North America and Europe (basically everywhere they have clients) so maybe I'll be able to see the family back in old blighty - something I haven't done in close to 3 years.
Anyhoo it's back to the old grind for another day - at least there's the neighborhood Friday night social coming up tonight . . . . . . .

Thursday, June 17

I'm famous!

I'm famous! My old buddy Franko has posted a blog entry about me. I've known him for 10 years or so and even tried to get him to move out here to the good old US of A. Every time I go back to the homeland, Frank and I het the west end of Glasgow for a curry. How I miss a good curry. Actually found out that there's a good Indian restaurant close to my office so I'll have to go check it out. But I digress.
It's cool to be part fo the bloggin community. I did this as a stream of consciousness thing and found that it can connect people from all over the place. One of these days I'll actually send an email to friends and family to let them know this exists :-) Back to work for now.
Oh, and I'm going to change jobs soon . . . . watch this space

Monday, June 7

Go Pistons!

Monday morning. After a weekend of "socializing". We had a full house on Friday night, with half the neighbourhood there hanging out at drinking. Saturday morning was slow, more to do with apathy than hangovers :-)
Saturday was Wallace's first day out in the real world, having been confined to the house and yard until he had his second set of shots. We took him to Vinaka downtown and he was fine. Somehow I think puppies bring out more in people than new babies - as Helen keeps saying that a puppy is the best chat up line you could get. People will come talk to you if you have one. .. . .
Last night the Pistons beat the Lakers in game 1 of the NBA finals - so the series will be interesting after all. All the pundits predicted a sweep for the Lakers. I for one am happy that the Pistons won. Maybe they'll win it all!
Got an interesting phone call on Friday that may mean a change of scene for me. My buddies in Phoenix want to hire me - I'll wait and see what happens this week.

Wednesday, June 2

New puppy

Remembered I had a blog and thought I'd better update.
Got a new puppy on Monday of last week - Wallace - a Lhasa Apso, and half brother to our other dog Corrie. Crate training and house training results in serious sleep deprivation. Thankfully my wonderful wife took care of that, as I have a 9 to 5 and she works from home. But Wallace is as cute as anything. Just like his brother was at his age.
What's amazing about dogs is their innate desire to assert dominance over each other. Our puppy runs up to Corrie (who's 2 1/2 now) and if Corrie isn't in the mood to run around, he'll bare teeth and bark right in Wallace's face. And Wallace won't give in. Just sits there. I know there's a lot of distrust in adult dogs when it comes to puppies, and Corrie's behaviour is typical of that, but it's amazing how Wallace will not back off. What's funny is if Corrie is barking at something else, like the landscape guys in our yard, then Wallace runs into his crate and hides in the back.
Enough of Dog Karma 101. Need Coffee.