The End of 2021 It has been forever since I wrote here. Quite frankly, a combination of things have been at play here. First, the world got stupid beyond belief. I mentioned this as a factor sapping my enthusiasm in my last entry. And to be honest, that really hasn’t changed. And the second has been work, which has been…
Category: Personal Stuff
Fussa Japan in 1989 and 2013
Tokyo 5 recently posted an image of when he first came to Japan in 1990. It reminded me of my own time in Fussa, Japan from 1989 to 1991. A friend of mine in Japan, K-chan, took some photos earlier this year of Fussa, which is outside of Yokota Air Base. She used some photos I had taken from 1989…
Two Weeks Into the New Job
Now that I’m two weeks into the new job, I figured I’d write a bit about things. One of the things I hate the most about being the new guy on a team is not having the specific knowledge to do the job. Sure, I’ll have that soon enough, but it is always frustrating to me on a personal level…
A New Job
A new chapter starts in my life as I begin a new job. Things didn’t get off to a good start as Sunday night, I was amazingly not sleepy even though I went to bed when I had been going to bed. As such, it was well after midnight until I drifted off, but to make matters worse, I woke…
Information Technology Security Stupidity
The biggest bane of my current job is stupidity, whether it be stupid laws like HIPAA or Obamacare, or “We’re so smart, we’re stupid” Indians, or corporate stupidity, brought about by the people running said corporation who have no idea how things actually work, but they have a college degree and theories on how things “should” work. All of this…