Yearly Archives: 2007

Oct 03

Career Cruising

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Posted this on my LJ awhile ago. Usually I put this stuff on the “Quiz Results” page, but I thought I would put it here instead.

Not really all that surprising. I think I like machines more than people sometimes. Maybe because they’re a little more predictable?

1. Electrical Engineering Tech
2. Electronics Engineering Tech
3. Computer Engineer
4. Drafter
5. Industrial Designer
6. Electrical Engineer
7. Mathematician
8. Electrician
9. Computer Network Specialist
10. Office Machine Repairer

Go to www.careercruising.com
Log in with Username: nycareers, Password: landmark
Take the “Career Matchmaking” questionnaire
Post your top 10 results.

Sep 23

Went Up North

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On Thursday I went up to Traverse City with the goal of seeing my dad, rummaging through the stuff I left at his house and bringing some of it back with me. I have mixed feelings about going up there. I found myself missing my old apartment up there more than my dad’s house. I had intended to stay until Saturday morning, but found myself restless after I packed up my car Friday evening, so I decided to come back down early.

Sep 22

omg, werk bizzy.

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About an hour after I got into work today, I found myself in the datacenter swapping out the hardware for one of the servers that belongs to a legendary rock singer/band. So, I apologize if you were trying to buy tickets and couldn’t for about an hour and a half. The power supply was dead, and it would have taken me longer to extract the old one and insert a new one, so I pulled the drives and put them in a new machine.

Then, a different server had the PCI bus die and needed a hardware swap. I left a co-worker take care of that while I went to cover monitoring. Which was crazy busy until about 8pm. Named (bind, DNS service) died randomly on one of our nameservers. I restarted it but there could be a problem with it. A couple vps instances suddenly became inaccessible even though they were running fine – the server they were on previously still contained routes for them. And server reboots, reboots, reboots. Yargh.

Just now I went to get some dinner at Wendy’s, and came back to find a JIANTSPIDEROMGWTFBBQ hanging over the front door. EEEEEEEEEEyaaaaaahhhhh *shudder convulse* bleagh…!

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Sep 19

Um. Yeah. Security, what’s that?

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I just got home from work to discover that the doorhandle/lock for the apt building I live in has apparently been BUSTED OFF, and jimmied to stay unlocked. I just called the complex office and left a voicemail for them to call me back about this.

Also, I was leaving for work on Monday around 3:20pm when I encountered two black teenagers looking to get in the building. One of them was yanking on the door like he expected it to just open for him and seemed upset to be locked out. I didn’t really have a choice whether or not to let them in as I had to leave, but this didn’t set too well with me.

Sep 11

Looking for a new apartment.

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So I decided last night that while I like the size of this apartment and the location, and the price – the security, neighbors, (lack of) maintenance, and a ton of other things, bugs me enough about it to make me want to move when our lease comes up at the end of Feb.

We pretty much have three choices:

  • Stay here another year
  • Find an apartment in/near Lansing
  • Find an apartment in/near Grand Rapids

If we move to GR, Consumers will move us, so we won’t have that expense. I kind of want to stay near Lansing though. *sigh*