Last Year Today (Almost)
On April 14th of this year, Natalie pointed out I had linked backwards to April 14th of the previous year on my journal, but I got distracted and forgot to do that. So here I go: Last year today (and four days ago)
One difference this year is that I'm not watching reality TV as much, although I admit to having seen most of the VH1 "Strange Love" (Flava Flav+ Brigete Nielson -- too lazy to spell-check her name sorry.) I also watched about 45 minutes of the Metallica documentary "Some Kind of Monster" before shutting off the TV in horror. I can't believe this is the same band that produced "Master of Puppets". Sad sad sad.
Also last year I had just started working at Citadel and pretty much thought I'd be a permanent employee by now, but that hasn't come to pass (apparently takes as long to go perm as it does to get a fricking software package installed on my workstation) and so I'm still a contractor and that's kind of why I'm busy looking for a new gig.
I also notice that last year I had just started rumblings about switching to Mac, and well a year goes by and I have finally made the decision. Of course I need to save up a little bit before I can do it, but I've been having issue with my Windows laptop and am going to send it back to Circuit-City (btw dont EVER buy a computer from Circuit City) and hope my $400 Circuit-City "City Advantage Plan" combined with possibly unfixable problems or outdated machine might force them to give me store credit or something...
But yeah-- Mac, and I'll be getting after Tiger is already released so YAY! "Smart Folders" -- I can't frigging wait! Plus I'm looking forward to using the whole Unix under-the-hood aspect of Tiger instead of Cygwin on-top-of-the-hood on Windows. I really tried to get my Debian Linux install working, but my particular laptop's NVidia chipset isnt supported so I can't really enjoy running X on Linux. Something to play around with another time I suppose. I love the command line, but I still need the GUI to do my front-end development, so I think going Mac is going to make me very happy.
I've been living with Natalie for almost a year and a half or so now and that is going awesome. Like way awesome. We're even talking about getting a puppy! I love you, sweety! :-)
And I'm not going to post anything here about my taxes this time, except to say that I'll be paying the piper with interest and then some this time.
One difference this year is that I'm not watching reality TV as much, although I admit to having seen most of the VH1 "Strange Love" (Flava Flav+ Brigete Nielson -- too lazy to spell-check her name sorry.) I also watched about 45 minutes of the Metallica documentary "Some Kind of Monster" before shutting off the TV in horror. I can't believe this is the same band that produced "Master of Puppets". Sad sad sad.
Also last year I had just started working at Citadel and pretty much thought I'd be a permanent employee by now, but that hasn't come to pass (apparently takes as long to go perm as it does to get a fricking software package installed on my workstation) and so I'm still a contractor and that's kind of why I'm busy looking for a new gig.
I also notice that last year I had just started rumblings about switching to Mac, and well a year goes by and I have finally made the decision. Of course I need to save up a little bit before I can do it, but I've been having issue with my Windows laptop and am going to send it back to Circuit-City (btw dont EVER buy a computer from Circuit City) and hope my $400 Circuit-City "City Advantage Plan" combined with possibly unfixable problems or outdated machine might force them to give me store credit or something...
But yeah-- Mac, and I'll be getting after Tiger is already released so YAY! "Smart Folders" -- I can't frigging wait! Plus I'm looking forward to using the whole Unix under-the-hood aspect of Tiger instead of Cygwin on-top-of-the-hood on Windows. I really tried to get my Debian Linux install working, but my particular laptop's NVidia chipset isnt supported so I can't really enjoy running X on Linux. Something to play around with another time I suppose. I love the command line, but I still need the GUI to do my front-end development, so I think going Mac is going to make me very happy.
I've been living with Natalie for almost a year and a half or so now and that is going awesome. Like way awesome. We're even talking about getting a puppy! I love you, sweety! :-)
And I'm not going to post anything here about my taxes this time, except to say that I'll be paying the piper with interest and then some this time.