24 posts tagged “joey”
I FINALLY
hit the 100 pound mark on my diet. I have another 125 or so to go.
Google Maps Street View - INSIDE MY GARAGE
They turned on street views on google maps for Indianapolis. Here is my lovely house with the garage door open. I recognize this because in the back of the blue trailblazer is one of our storage chests - this was the day the wife moved out of the house. It's so nice of google to have permanently recorded this.
// rambling again //
Not a week goes by that
I don't wish that I could walk away from technology. There is very little that is fun about this job anymore. After 17 years, my industry is now more full - of people looking for a quick buck that have no qualifications, questionable experience, and don't know jack about basic theory - than ever. My industry needs a license or something - like doctors and lawyers. We need to weed out the unqualified people asap. Since corporate America will never allow that to happen (because it would drive up labor costs) then I'm beginning to look for my exit.
So why have I stayed in IT?
Money! It's not financially feasible to start over in another career - or is it? The current collapsing of my financial house of cards might provide an out for me. As my teens all approach graduation, thankfully I have their college mostly covered - thanks to the Indian 529 program. What isn't covered they are going to have cover on their own! I insist. With circle face only being three years old I have plenty of time to regain my footing and provide for her schooling as well. Even with the divorce, my overhead is coming way down in the next 2 years. Hmmmm.
So if I took this route
then what would I do? Hmmm ... Might be a fun problem to have. I was thinking about the things that I wanted to do when I was a young boy. Let's see:
- Trash Man - I wanted to hang off the back of that truck and run that compactor. I used to follow the trash truck in my neighborhood on my bike every Tuesday.
- Street Sweeper Guy - If it wasn't the trash truck that I was following then it was the street sweeper. What a cool vehicle with it's rear wheel steering and all. As kids we used to collect the metal bristles that would come off of the sweeper as the guy drove by.
- Fireman - What little boy didn't want to be a fireman? I remember all of kids having stickers on our bedroom windows that served to identify this room as a containing children so that the firemen knew where to go for a fire rescue. I understand those stickers are now used by kidnapper and child molesters to identify targets. Times are different.
Then as I grew older I wanted
to be a computer 'programmer' - ick ... that's too close to what I do now. I also wanted to be a stock broker because I wanted to play with numbers and make money. I don't know about the stock broker thing, it seems too close to the hustle that is IT.
Ultimately, I think I just might
need to find something that is not about figuring out how to cut costs or how to make someone else MORE money, or forces me to sit through anymore Steven Covey crap. Yeah, I know - fat chance.
I leave myself
very few options. Maybe I need to go out on my own and fail several times in order to shake this anti-corporate craziness from my mind.
I bailed from the
office at 4:30 today and went straight to the RedRock Grill next to the hotel. Quickly downed 3 brews, chatted via yahoo for blackberry with one of my cutey pie vox buds, ate some crab cakes, potatoes, and carrots. I looked so cool tapping away on my bb in this upscale restaurant - I'm sure - don't hate.
For now I'm
geeking around the net. But I'll go back later for this:
My blog is worth $38,953.26.
How much is your blog worth?
I just realized that
this past Saturday was my 3 month anniversary here on Vox. As you can probably tell I've not blogged very long. I did all of 20 or so posts during the month of Oct 2006 on my other personal blog before I jumped ship for Vox. I dig the level of interaction here on Vox so I don't think that I would ever completely stop posting here. I really hope that the Vox/6A people realize that the social networking aspects of Vox are what make this place hum. The 'secret sauce' for Vox is not the pretty bells and whistles that we have here rather it is the frictionless interaction of the Vox users. Without the people providing all of the content for their clique to view then there would be no viable model for Vox.
I think that I want
to spread out a little more and focus on one or two niche areas that do not lend themselves well to a personal blog. My Vox is personal. Obviously, if I dump 3 or 4 posts somewhere else then that takes away from my personal thing here at Vox. That is probably a good thing as it would cut out most of the low quality posts that I have on here now.
A couple ideas that I've been thinking about:
No holds barred blogging about Indianapolis/Central Indiana - enjoyindy.com
Second Life 24 Hour News Blog - I have an undisclosed domain for this as well. I guess I'd have to learn how be a part of this Second Life thing though.... might be too much of a time investment. Might need an investor so that I could pay some 'reporters' that know how to navigate that thing.
A parody blog that is a satirized composite of the 'power blogs' on the web. Undisclosed domain name.
Anyway, just some Tuesday night ramblings fer ya'.
Thanks to Webcruiser for reminding me to check my vox as a graph again. I found this on Webcruise's site last Halloween - so here is the updated graph. The first one is from Oct 2006. The second is from today. Hint - they are amazingly similar. Do this graph yourself by clicking here.
Since I'm awake and it's the middle of the night, here are some pics. Of course these pre-date digital cameras.
Yes indeed! You can get a zit in your 30s.
fuck!
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