AstroNerdBoy bloviates and rambles about different things.
Today marks the 3-month point to when my ETE term expires. Hopefully, I can have three more months to save money so that if I don’t get one of these other two jobs in the Company come January (when hiring should begin again), I have plenty of money to survive for a while without a job. However, I don’t expect…
We have this fairly large account called “Big Road Bank” (BRB). The account has been with The Company for a number of years, but the new executives in charge of things there have decided that they do not wish to outsource their work. Thus, they have begun to transition servers and support slowly back in-house to be completed by 2010.…
Man, I get a few days off to get some things done and to my amazement, I have had the darnedest time trying to convert from a night shift mode to a day mode. Every stinking night, I wake up at 02:30 and then I’m awake for a few hours before crashing again. Thursday, I got up at 09:00 and…
AstroNerdBoy vs. the Swallows I like birds for the most part. Yeah, the bird crap on the side walks or on cars can be annoying, but there’s just something cool about birds. Maybe it is because they can fly. Every spring and summer, the swallows come and build their mud nests all over the place. I never paid them much…
Part of the fun of owning a condo is having a Home Owners Association to take care of certain aspects of things, such as mowing the grass, painting the buildings, or dealing with the sewage. When our condominium complex was built, for whatever reason, grinder pits (also known as “grinder pumps”) were installed at ever building. For those that don’t…