Just in case you guys don’t see this on my other weblog I thought I’d mention it here. I have to admit that this is probably more interesting to Andy but it should at least remind everyone of our classic video game days.
Reminiscing With The Final Fantasy Retrospective
Here’s the first part directly.
Comment [4]I thought I’d pull the references to my career into my own post. I’ll let someone else worry about the Japan comments. ;)
Yesterday I went to an interview with a startup in New London. It sounds like they’re planning on offering me the job. I’m hoping I can get the weekend to think about it. They’re working on the issue where small businesses have a bunch of pieces of software, like Quickbooks, and zero integration with their other software and their web sites. The “bastards” are working out of a building right on the water. It would be more code than general web development, but using PHP, what this site and most things I write are in.
I’ve also been thinking about what a couple you mentioned, as well as I’ve heard from others, about striking out on my own and doing contract and freelance work.
Last week I met a few people up in Boston, including an Irish boy (well, descended, like me) who owns a place looking for a developer.
The issue that I’ve found, and touched upon already, is that I have no idea what I want. I think I used to have some ideas, but they were all young and foolish. Nowadays all my concentration has been on things to do outside work, like traveling. I’m not certain if its my current job burning me out or what but let’s just say whenever I’ve been getting the question, “Where do you see yourself in five years, career wise?”, I have no answer.
This is just another rambling as I’ve done in other places, talking out loud so to speak.
I think I’ll try Kate’s idea of making a list this weekend. Hopefully that’ll help me get my head around this.
So to summarize, I can do one of the following; Go freelance, take general time off (Kate doesn’t seem worried I’d have no money), move to Boston and try to get a random developer position up there, take another local job (seems startups like me), unknown…
PS. Andy, if I went anywhere with you I’d only have a problem with the Frisbee Summer League Tournament being on the 11th of August.
Sound off [6]I have 3 things to share with you all. I thought about putting them in different postings, but it occurred to me that then I’d push every other posting off the top 3, and I wouldn’t want to do that to you guys. So, explanations aside, here goes.
FIRST, In a couple weeks I’m taking the Columbia Wind Ensemble on tour to Yale, for a joint concert with the Yale Concert Band. It’s our first collaboration with another major college ensemble, so I’m very excited about it. It would mean a lot to me if you local boys could make it! It’s on Friday, February 23rd at 8pm in Woolsey Hall and will feature all kinds of great music, including one from our CRHS past: Gavorkna Fanfare!
SECOND: I’ll be traveling to CT again the weekend of March 30 to April 1. Since that’s so close to my birthday, as well as Bryan’s and Jim’s and only a month after Jake’s, I thought it would be nice to plan something with you local boys for that Saturday in honor of us getting old. Who’s going to be around? Lisa has suggested that, for her amusement, we try out a drinking game called Edward 40-hands, but I’m game for regular beering as well.
FINALLY, speaking of beer, I’ve discovered a new favorite brand with a great beers and a whole lot of character. Stone Brewing has a whole selection of IPAs that are excellent, but none as good as their basic, which rivals my favorite Dogfish Head brews in its flavor, intensity, and drunk factor. They also produce Arrogant Bastard Ale, the quintessential condescending beer snob brew for the rest of us – just the text on the bottle (think “you’re not worthy” explained in two soul-crushing paragraphs) is enough to make it worth buying. The beer itself is spectacular as well, despite not being an IPA! The 7.2% alcohol content certainly helps with that…
Anyhoo, there’s 3 things that oughta get you talking.
FREE BEER! [8]Ho! Ho! Ho! (and stuff)
Hope everyone enjoys this joyous day of famry, fun and RumNogs.
Merry Christmoose,
Jim
So what is better than eating chocolate and drinking the brew of the gods… nothing really. (OK, so maybe my love for my wonderful woman person, but that’s just so sappy.)
So yeah, I just figured I would make the Tyty happy by posting and thought I would report that I am drinking some Extra Stout from a genuine Guinness glass (the ones with the real gold foil) and eating a warm cholocate muffin half. This is quite a lovely state if I may say so myself. The business taxes are something that need to get done, but since I just spent two hours cooking and cleaning, I figure a few minutes to type this up won’t hurt. Then again, I’ll be prepping some corned beef and cabbage up shortly for tomorrow’s dinner, so I’m afraid the taxes aren’t going to get finished. Wow, interesting that I’m drinking Guinness and that I’ll be prepping corned beef and cabbage, I really didn’t plan on having a late St. Paddy’s day – but that’s OK with me.
K, so how’s everyone doing? I’m quite fine myself. The old jobber isn’t anything terribly thrilling these days what with the shutting down of our company and letting go of everyone – we’re sorta just keeping everything running, which coincidentally isn’t that hard since we were such a damn good team and have always had a pretty well oiled datacenter. Outside o’ that, the photo business is humming along quite nicely. We don’t have quite the same load as last year, but that’s not a terribly bad thing since we were nutso this time a year ago. We’ll still hopefully make a decent amount of the $$ signs – and there are two new bodies budgetted in our futures (D200 and 30D), so all is well.
K, well, even I’m getting bored of this post as I’m typing it, so love you all and buhbye.
Billy
What dost thou thinketh? [2]Yesterday afternoon we were driving along a scenic series of back roads between Loveland and Boulder when we spotted something dark and pointy-eared walking along the centerline of the road. We pulled over and found ourselves looking at a cute, happy Aussie/Blue Heeler mix that patiently waited for us by sitting right to the side of our car. After discovering that she had no tags, we opened our doors and motioned her inside.
We looked about and discovered a sign that had a phone number on it at the end of a nearby driveway. We called this number hoping that the owner was at the other end of it. The lady that picked up was friendly, stated that the dog was not hers, but that she’d run up the driveway and check her out. When she and her son came into view, we heard “oh, that’s Smokey!” from the young boy.

After some chatting, the lady sent her son away to return Smokey to their neighbors. Just as we were about to drive off, they ran back up to the car and asked if we would like some farm fresh eggs. Being the egg snobs that I/we am/are, the lady ran off to fetch us some eggs. When she returned, they asked us if we had ever seen green eggs. A quick look inside the cover of the egg carton revealed pastel green colored eggs. They truly do exist!
There is a type of hen, the Ameraucana, that actually lays real fairy tale eggs. Check out the first variety on this link for more information. I can’t seem to find a ton of other information about these guys, but we’re not crazy! (err, well, not about this at least)
This morning we experienced a true taste of Dr. Seuss and felt that it was worthy enough to share. “say! i like green eggs and ham! i do! i like them, sam-i-am!” – ©Dr. Seuss
Comment [3]This has been building for a couple days because I keep getting distracted at work. A while ago my mom dug up some old pictures. From our graduation. :) It’s a little weird to see how we looked almost ten years ago. I almost look like a skeleton. I guess my mom didn’t need to spend any money on me at Halloween.
And my maternal grandmother, who I’m pretty sure you’ve all met at least once, was taken by an online scam. So she’s filing for bankruptcy and we’ve been cleaning her house. Along with a progress report from Ms. Brockett my mom found this 1994 holiday concert program.
Spank Me [3]Hey Andy, what instrument are you playing here? :) And yes, I am proud that my first posting in, well, forever is juvenile.
Love,
Jim
Happy Birthday!!!
I thought about changing the timestamp on this post and cheat. But I figured someone might notice. ;) I hope it kicked some ass!
Comment [1]Ok Ok Ok, I FINALLY am able to post again. I guess for some odd reason through Mozilla my IP wasn’t liked at goofyguys, so Im back. Anyways, this post is more addressed to Ty and The pirate. CONTEST DUE DATE: August 1st. Lets see how much you 2 ladies have improved. Now, Ty and Jim have done their explaination of the sunrise/sunshine diets, which is great I’m not totally knocking them, but let me give my suggestions that I got from some of the guys at the gym that are….well JACKED! 3 meals a day, BAD. If you can spread your lunch out at work, say eat some of it at 10, 12 and 2, that is fantastic way to reduce the weight. Think of your bodies as machines that you have to constantly feed “coal” to, when the coal supply is low, the machine doesn’t work as well. So, in order to keep your machines working to the best of their abilities, feed it constantly. Let me give you an example of my eating routine. In the morning, my breakfast has been reduced to tea, oj, and health shake w/ wheat toast on occasoin (try to stay away from starches and white bread. Wheat bread is ok) Health shake contents:
Little tricks like this make your “diet” more of your daily eating ritual.
tuna out of a can, YUMMY! (At first this was absolutely terrible, I couldn’t stand it. Experiment with spices, I use lots of black pepper and alittle bit of adobo, and it works fine. I started out with the big cans, and now I’m down to 1 small one. To keep yourself from going insane, “chase” the taste with a yogurt. Do this every other day, at least the first week. Also your mentality of dieting is different at the end of the week then at the begining. For example Monday you would do the tuna, and by friday you would be having taco bell {just an example I hope you dont eat that shit} For me, by Wednesday I can’t take it, and on Friday Im ok to tuna. What I do is tuna on Monday, and then I pick up a whole chicken either from S&S, or a pound of chicken breast and just eat that [not boston market} And for your 10 and 2 meals, cut up a cucumber, eat some carrots, an apple, etc. Just spread your meals out. You also wont have that “Im sleepy” feeling after lunch when you do this too. Dinner, don’t eat past 7. When you get to Friday and the weekend, cheat. Eat what you want, in moderation. After the first 2 weeks of dieting like this, you’ll notice that your eat whatever you want mentality will redue itself without extra effort, the stomach will not like all that greese. Plus you can get drunk for cheaper! The first week do this: Shake first day, and every other day. Do what you do now, every other day. By the second to 3rd week, you should be on shakes alone. And if you have to cheat those first 2 weeks, its ok. Just don’t make cheating the everyday thing.
I know how you feel when you get out of work, I just want to get home and crash. I feel the same way, but get to that gym, do something everyday, even if its only for 20 minutes, I’m sure you can take 20 minutes out of your porn downloading to do a workout. What I do is this: In the morning, its hard for me to get up, so I wake up to STATIC X and SLIPKNOT. I do 300 + crunches/day. This may seem like alot, but it isn’t. Let me break it down for you: When I get up, 100 crunches, 50 top/50 bottom, takes me about 3 minutes. When I get home from work, 50/50, before bed, 50/50. Thats it, and it doesn’t take up to much of my time, infact when I get home and have that “I want to crash” feeling, I do the 50/50, and I’m awake again. It make a HUGE difference when you do this. Hit those weights when you can, it will make it easier, trust me. If you dont know what to do with them, pick up a muscle&fitness magazine, and just look through it they have meals, workout tips, etc. Or if you want to go all out get “The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding, Arnold Schwarzenegger – That will definately keep you busy. For aerobics, fuck the tredmill, climb a mountain fast, do laps in a pool, join martial arts, etc.)
Ok thats my schpeel, happy hurting! “A beautiful body, is a gift to yourself” – Nelly (Sorry I think thats’ the only intelligent thing I’ve ever heard from him)
Good luck guys, and keep me posted on your progress
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