Recap
It's been forever.
So, I turned 30 recently, and I have to say, despite the dreading I did, it was basically a non-event. I mean, that's how it is, you always worry that getting older will somehow be different, and then it isn't. Not on your birthday anyway. I'm sure I'll feel the effects of being 30 over the next 312 months. (Yes, that's a randomly chosen number.)
I had a great time visiting Chicago. You never realize just how much you miss people until you see them again. Then you start to wonder how you got by without them. Then, they're gone again and you realize that you don't know how you got by with them. It's so very confusing.
I had my first experience with the game "Rock Band." We immediately went out and bought it. Happy birthday to me! It's a seriously sweet game. I know I'm like 3 years behind in learning that, but I really enjoy it. It's very challenging, and a great game to play with your wife. We've just been having a blast with it.
We've started researching putting in new floors as well. It's a project I was really looking forward to, until we started making it a reality. Now it just seems totally overwhelming. We'll get through it, but it's just one of those things that makes you heave a large sigh. But, I'm sure it'll be very rewarding to put in the new floors.
I still haven't taken the Network+ exam. In fact, I've all but stopped thinking about it. It hangs over my head like a giant failure sign. I really want to take it, but I haven't been able to finish studying. I used to study at work, but I don't have the time anymore.
Though, I have been doing a lot of web developing at work lately. I love doing it. I really do. But I fear that somewhere down the line my manager is going to come back and say, "That's not really your job. You've been slacking off in your regular duties, and that's no good." The people tasking me with the website management assure me that that's not the case, but they're not the people I directly report to. Granted, they're people ABOVE the guy I report to, but it still makes me uneasy that I haven't heard from my direct manager on it.
I'm supposed to be going through some training materials but I've been forced to put those aside. Completely put them aside. That's where my worry is. I'm afraid in 3 weeks my manager is going to say, "Why didn't you finish your training?"
I couldn't get in touch with him today though. I'll have to try harder on Monday. I really need to make sure that he's okay with what I'm doing, even though the upper management people say, "he's okay with it." The upper management people think I'm being paranoid, and I am; still, now it not the time to be screwing up at work.
It was really great to see all my family again while we were in Chicago last week. They, of course, loved my boy. And I loved that they loved him because we could go out and do things without the boy. For example, we saw the new Clash of the Titans movie. I really liked it. It's not as good as the original from a story perspective, but I don't care. All I wanted from that movie was an action flick. If you go in expecting a loosely cobbled together action film, I think you'll like it too. If you're expecting something like "depth," you'll just be disappointed.
I don't know that I have anything else to add. I don't read anymore. I don't have any funny anecdotes. I think we're good. It's just a "hey, here's what's up" post.
So, I turned 30 recently, and I have to say, despite the dreading I did, it was basically a non-event. I mean, that's how it is, you always worry that getting older will somehow be different, and then it isn't. Not on your birthday anyway. I'm sure I'll feel the effects of being 30 over the next 312 months. (Yes, that's a randomly chosen number.)
I had a great time visiting Chicago. You never realize just how much you miss people until you see them again. Then you start to wonder how you got by without them. Then, they're gone again and you realize that you don't know how you got by with them. It's so very confusing.
I had my first experience with the game "Rock Band." We immediately went out and bought it. Happy birthday to me! It's a seriously sweet game. I know I'm like 3 years behind in learning that, but I really enjoy it. It's very challenging, and a great game to play with your wife. We've just been having a blast with it.
We've started researching putting in new floors as well. It's a project I was really looking forward to, until we started making it a reality. Now it just seems totally overwhelming. We'll get through it, but it's just one of those things that makes you heave a large sigh. But, I'm sure it'll be very rewarding to put in the new floors.
I still haven't taken the Network+ exam. In fact, I've all but stopped thinking about it. It hangs over my head like a giant failure sign. I really want to take it, but I haven't been able to finish studying. I used to study at work, but I don't have the time anymore.
Though, I have been doing a lot of web developing at work lately. I love doing it. I really do. But I fear that somewhere down the line my manager is going to come back and say, "That's not really your job. You've been slacking off in your regular duties, and that's no good." The people tasking me with the website management assure me that that's not the case, but they're not the people I directly report to. Granted, they're people ABOVE the guy I report to, but it still makes me uneasy that I haven't heard from my direct manager on it.
I'm supposed to be going through some training materials but I've been forced to put those aside. Completely put them aside. That's where my worry is. I'm afraid in 3 weeks my manager is going to say, "Why didn't you finish your training?"
I couldn't get in touch with him today though. I'll have to try harder on Monday. I really need to make sure that he's okay with what I'm doing, even though the upper management people say, "he's okay with it." The upper management people think I'm being paranoid, and I am; still, now it not the time to be screwing up at work.
It was really great to see all my family again while we were in Chicago last week. They, of course, loved my boy. And I loved that they loved him because we could go out and do things without the boy. For example, we saw the new Clash of the Titans movie. I really liked it. It's not as good as the original from a story perspective, but I don't care. All I wanted from that movie was an action flick. If you go in expecting a loosely cobbled together action film, I think you'll like it too. If you're expecting something like "depth," you'll just be disappointed.
I don't know that I have anything else to add. I don't read anymore. I don't have any funny anecdotes. I think we're good. It's just a "hey, here's what's up" post.