August 21, 2009: Dominica’s Birthday and Big Cleaning Day

Today is Dominica’s thirty first birthday! Dominica and I (and our families too, I imagine) are still in a bit of shock surrounding the whole “moving to Texas” thing.  We are now desperately attempting to plan, as much as possible, for what to do next.  We are still in the process of moving to Peekskill!  …

August 20, 2009: Moving to Texas

I spent the whole of this morning and early afternoon eagerly awaiting some amount of solid news about what is happening at work.  I’m pretty good at dealing with disasters but I am exceptionally poor at handling “pending decisions.”  It is less of the unknown but more of the “known, but no one will fill …

August 19, 2009: Big News and SpiceCorps Philly

This morning started uneventfully.  Got up, started working for a few hours.  Nothing special.  Seemed like it would be a completely normal day. There was a big conference call at work today.  Normally I skip any of these big organizational calls as they are always just for the employees and have no meaning to a …

August 18, 2009: Finally Done with Cabling

My big news for the day is that my latest article, The Small and Medium Business (SMB) Information Technology Vendor Relationship Dilema, was published as the headlining article on Datamation this morning!  This is my first article to be the main headline. By early afternoon my article was linked from the IBM Tivoli for the …

August 17, 2009: Indian Food in Peekskill

I got up and hung out with Liesl and Dominica a little bit this morning since we are all on an earlier schedule that we would normally have on a normal work week.  So no need to start work right when I got up.  I then worked for a little while making sure that I …