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by xnavydk

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My last post was sometime in April of 09.
where did I go?

well, lets see. as some of you know I work for this company, A great company. My home away from the Navy. Its just like the Navy in many ways. Anyway, I am the IT guy, I do everything some of these IT shops do with many people I do with one people. From user tech support to digging a ditch to lay the cat5 in to a new building. Did i hit the sewer line yes I sure did, but it was an experience. I learned that you much call some people before you dig for just that occasion. Anyway, so needless to say I am a very busy person. Dealing with users and servers and network problems and virus's and firewalls and lions and tigers and bears. Stumbleupon... I found a GF.

I see I missed a few things. I am sure there is more I have yet to see that I missed but for starters.

I missed the conference
I missed Old MC passing, fair winds and following seas Old Mycroft.
I don't know if JD got his stuff together
I see palmett is still giving out the greatest advice.
and a few others I used to follow also doing well.
I'm still reading... I need time to catch up.

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by jamesrl

I posted the story here a few weeks back. I belong to a clan of gamers who play the Battlefield series. One of our members took a break to go serve in Afghanistan, he came back with a Silver Star and one of his company got a Medal of Honor. Kinda made us all humble.

James

by xnavydk

Good to hear from you , thanks for the update!
any trip to a war zone is humbling. Congrats the the friend. Its one thing to hear about it, its another to be it.

by xnavydk

I stopped posting and even reading. I just got caught up in quite a few things and just failed to keep up with TR. I used come in to work and first thing I did was open my trouble ticket tab, TR tab, and then all after that. some times I didn't get past the trouble ticket tab... I got lost along the way some how.

by jdclyde

Life has had it's ups and downs.

Work is down, everything else is up.

Most of my time is spent volunteering, between band parent council, the sports booster club, and helping with the athletic teams, there hasn't been a lot of free time.

Have stopped in and out of TR, but as the focus of the articles seems to have shifted away from the lowly tech, there isn't a lot of things here to hold my attention.

Lots of walks down by the river and less time on a computer, for both business and pleasure.

Oh, been doing some of the FB stuff too, and many of the regulars are there.

by xnavydk

looked at your situation and poured myself a cup of realization. I could be out of a job with no warning and not having done anything wrong. such is business. I think I am safe tho since I am the only one of my kind here. and i mean that loosely.

am glad your enjoying life.

I put down WOW and got myself a girlfriend/fiance' we have been talking about marriage. Just about the same time i last posted on TR go figure. SO I guess i have rejoined the world of the living again as it appears you have done.

by jdclyde

I WAS the only one that knew the networking and security but still found myself hitting the bricks with only that day to pack my stuff.

Lucky for them I am not a vindictive person, as I know of at least five avenues into their network that they never disabled, one for each location, that I had used for remote support and they KNEW of, but not knowing my job, have no idea how to shut down.

The same is true for the dozen people that followed me out the door over the next year, as I KNOW their VPN access never got disabled either.

Sucks to be them, as one of these people I am sure is going to sooner or later do something stupid. I am keeping my distance and want nothing to do with it.

by charliespencer

Smile when you say that, pardner; them's fighin' words!

In addition to Old Mycroft, in December we lost the split personality of w2ktechman / The Scummy One.

You may have missed the '09 conference, but the '10 conference will be in Louisville, KY in late June. The details are around here somewhere...

by c f usa

Was definately a loss, I took a break for a few months and come back to find out (just today) that two of my favorite commenters were gone. RIP Gentlemen

by xnavydk

to Scummy?

I wont make it to the conf and I'm sorry i missed the last one. My Youngest boy is graduating high school on the 14th. I hope you guys post some video and pics of it tho, I would like to see it.

Sorry about the O, my typing although fast is not very accurate

by tink!

I became so immersed in work (gasp- work!) that I completely forgot to check in on TR. (gasp again!)

Quite frankly, I think I've missed alot of things too. I didn't even recognize your name!

Tink :)

by xnavydk

It folks don't get absorbed in thier work. it just takes over and sucks your brains out like that brain bug from starship troopers.

by jaqui

lost just about everything at the end of last summer. like job, home etc.
wasn't really tracking anything to well for a while. [ 5 years no vacation, and in high stress situation 24/7 kind of does burn you out. ]
still don't have a job, but now I'm ready to start searching for one.

by jamesrl

I kinda took a break for a while as well, it only lasted a couple of months.

Glad to see you out there, I haven't been to Van recently, need to see you when I'm there.

James

by tink!

I did wonder about you. Since I'm so sporadic with my TR visits I just figured I've been missing you.

Good luck on finding a job that you'll enjoy having.

by jaqui

something like Assistant Vice President for Information Technology Security with a Bank?
actually applied for that one last night. ;)

the job description is 3 pages long. 8-)

by maxwell edison

..... I've actually been there - that exact spot! I call it [i]Hotel Colorado[/i].

By the way, I hope all's going well for you.

P.S. Some time ago, you mentioned a desire to go to Denver. If you ever do, send me an e-mail; dinner and beer is on me.

by ron k.

To be frank, I need to get my shlt together a bit better. It didn't work. :D

by boxfiddler

I'd have to alter my perception of your algorithm if you got your [i]shit together a bit better.[/i]
I hate when I have to do that. ;)

by mjd420nova

I have garnered so much usable information here that I couldn't take a break. I have daily questions that need answers and I always find most of them here. Even when I'm off on either of my yearly treks to the Alaskan wilderness, the laptop goes with me and I know where to plug in. Up and down the coast, I know which motels have free WIFI so I can park and eat luch while catching up or search the archives for a needed solution. Almost nine years now and I can't give it up.

by jaqui

at he give or take 200 miles on the diagonal :D

if you can't pinpoint your location closer than 200 miles, you are lost ;)

by maxwell edison

But that spot is close to the middle of a 500 mile trail that generally goes in a northeast to southwest direction - or the other way around, of course. A walk to that exact spot from either directioin could take a person on a 200 mile walk, depending on where a person might jump onto it.

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