Just an ordinary muggle
I'm reading the Harry Potter books for the first time. The brown eyed girl introduced me to the movies a few months ago, and for our one-year date-aversary or whatever you might call it, she got me a five book set of the paperbacks. (she's borrowing 4 and 5 ;-). I'm still in book two, and it's enormously entertaining. The only bummer is that I largely know the story from watching the movie, so I'm looking forward to the not-yet-made-into-a-movie books.
I'm rather jealous of the devices that Potter and friends get to deploy. I could use some of those. I started a new job today, and after a fair number of OMG, how did I get myself into this and Maybe I'm just a big sham, I don't know how I managed to pull this off before moments, it will all work out. Somehow being a "senior systems engineer" makes one long for the first days I had changing laptops and inventorying RS232 cables in between trying to debug localtalk cabling problems and System7 printing. I did do my first iChat video chat though. And I'm happy that both my desktop and laptop computers are Macs. I have a lot of hardware to order to replace a server that's running way too much stuff, which makes me feel more than a bit muggle-ish, to borrow from the Potterisms. I'll need to get Linux, OSX, and probably a Windows 2003 box for good measure up and running in the next few months, maybe weeks, somehow managing to do most of that with part-time help, whilst I start looking into hosting providers and similar and doing some kind of technology evangelism in some way.
It will all work out though, one step at a time.
I'm also going to attempt to take a grad class, with the possible/probable intent of getting the master's. Thank goodness for $7 tuition waivers though, the 3.0 bill for a graduate level course is over $1100. Nuts. I feel slightly less guilty now that the funding for my job is all coming from the federal government and University assessments, and not student fees.
I'm rather jealous of the devices that Potter and friends get to deploy. I could use some of those. I started a new job today, and after a fair number of OMG, how did I get myself into this and Maybe I'm just a big sham, I don't know how I managed to pull this off before moments, it will all work out. Somehow being a "senior systems engineer" makes one long for the first days I had changing laptops and inventorying RS232 cables in between trying to debug localtalk cabling problems and System7 printing. I did do my first iChat video chat though. And I'm happy that both my desktop and laptop computers are Macs. I have a lot of hardware to order to replace a server that's running way too much stuff, which makes me feel more than a bit muggle-ish, to borrow from the Potterisms. I'll need to get Linux, OSX, and probably a Windows 2003 box for good measure up and running in the next few months, maybe weeks, somehow managing to do most of that with part-time help, whilst I start looking into hosting providers and similar and doing some kind of technology evangelism in some way.
It will all work out though, one step at a time.
I'm also going to attempt to take a grad class, with the possible/probable intent of getting the master's. Thank goodness for $7 tuition waivers though, the 3.0 bill for a graduate level course is over $1100. Nuts. I feel slightly less guilty now that the funding for my job is all coming from the federal government and University assessments, and not student fees.