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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Well, good luck!
I wonder if I'll be in your shoes in X number of years... when there are little kids running around, or not so little ones. Currently I'm loving my job but I won't be a working mom so things will have to change. My experiences of the last week or so are making it really really obvious that I can't afford to miss a major worldview shift, like the one from procedural to OO. I just won't be able to get back in without series retraining. Just keeping up on new languages, that I can manage, but if I let myself get ten years out of date I'll never work again.
It is not that hard to retrain if you don't think in a box. Many people just can't let old ideas go. The idea that you can't teach a old dog new tricks is garbage. Even with the so called world view shift lots of companies and projects don't bother with OO.
Oh, I think I can keep up. The difficult part is proving it. Even if I study on my own, if my resume doesn't show that I've attained new skills I may not get a chance to prove it.
Not that I'm that worried, I've always known this.
That's what happened to me whilst I was mucking about with tech support --- the world changed, C and Assembler went out of style, and everything went to the web and OOP.
And the world is changing on us yet again, Jen ... I think this Rapid Application Development thing is going places. Ruby on Rails is all the rage here in Austin.
I've been considering taking a Java course at the community college.
"Bark, bark!" went the old dog ...
You give me hope, youngling ...
The nice thing about Java is that it makes C# a cinch, and vie versa. So learn one and you more or less get the other free.
Do you use Eclipse? It took me a while but it's my Java IDE of choice now.
I'm also planning a couple of personal projects I can execute in C#/ASP, database stuff that I can show off to prospective customers.
Now I need a business ... and a business card ...
I'll have to look into it ... I have Visual Studio 2005, which offers "J#" ... and, I confess, I like the .NET environment more than I liked Brief back in the day.
Dunno, Jen ... it's all still kinda like C to me ...
You know, Austin has a lively commerce in "reporting analysis," where you can learn Crystal Reports and get a $30 an hour job. (Another small world change; the rise of application programming.) I know, that's not all that, but it's a start!
Well, yeah. "C with classes" is what turned into C++ and Java/C# are just red-headed stepdaughters of C++, so...
hey, I figured out how to get one side of my rubik cube toy to go all one color. Hmm.
I'm not sure of this, one way or another. Around here, only six more weeks of winter could be a good thing.
Yah... the C-5 is a big sucker. We've still got a few that fly out of McChord AFB down by the beach. I think. There used to be a lot of them there, along with the old C-141 Starlifters.
Now there's mostly the new C-17's and we see pretty regular traffic of those guys going in and out over the Pacific routes.
Afternoon folkses... :-)
My week is over! [sip]
sittin' at da airport bar agin. SFO... headin' home.
[sip]
That's really interesting, Rose... it's good to strike out on your own like that, and particularly nice if it works out bring in some regular work! Pretty darn cool. Jealosy strikes. :-)
I used to think it would be fun to hang up a shingle and do something on my own. I'm not a programmer, and anymore I'm not so useful in the PC fixit game. Been managing people too much and computers too little.
But something's been nagging at me about... believe it or not... Sarbanes-Oxley. I think it's actually something I could do, and I could help people save a lot of money. My hatred of the system brings an appropriate realism and cynicism that's all too rare in SOX consulting. There's *so* much about SOX that can be avoided if cards are played right. Lord knows... I've discovered some nifty magic to make a lot of SOX headaches fade.
Not *all* the headaches... but if I hadn't kicked and screamed about a few scoping questions, we'd be in a far more serious boat than we are.
I dunno. I'm probably just whistling in the wind. But there's good money to be made off this lousy law. The consultant *I'm* paying is going skiing in Switzerland next week.
So there's that.
:-)
So today I got told to eff-off by a gay Virginia blogger. We were discussing a bill in the VA General Assembly that would deny state funding to charities that offer services to illegal immigrants.
Their argument was that this was not Christian. I asked them to show me Scripture where Jesus said the government should pay for the work of the church. That was the high point. He started by calling me a "moral cripple."
In the end he said he didn't care about my opinion anyway.
But he cared enough to argue with me about it.
So, there's that.
[sip]
We had a Superbowl pot-luck today at werk...
...and I've still got a headache compound....compound headache...whatever.
...and my cat is staring at me...
Hope it will be good news for Jeanne after the meds have worked themselves out of her system.
I asked him what I could do that would replicate what the warfarin would do, without the side effects. He told me that if I took one 81mg aspirin every day, it would be fine. So that's what I've been doing for the last 5 years. I very rarely have heart palpitations anymore, but if I do, the aspirin takes care of making sure the blood is thinned just enough!
I pinged you, Lil'freeper, so you could weigh in on this question/comment to SuziQ.
Have you ever considered taking magnesium for your heart? I've read that most people are low in magnesium which is essential for proper heart function, plus like 300 other functions in the human body. OB and I have a cup of Natural Calm every night (we've never gotten higher than a heaping teaspoon,'cause it really works well on one bodily function!). Couldn't hurt, might help with those occasionl palpitations.
Make that a cup of Natural Calm TEA, rather than a cup of Natural Calm
I understand that the compound is giving you a headache, but, do you still have a headache? Have you taken any aspirin?? Are you coming down with the flu?? It seems to be hitting the area....
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