Not really a whole lot going on in my life, as usual, but I figured it’s been a while, so I’d toss together an update.
Work has been going well. Finally transitioned over to the system administration position. So far it hasn’t been anything overly exciting, a couple trips to the colo to swap out bad parts and I’ve been putting together a couple of new systems. I’m rather enjoying it, it makes me happy to be working with hardware again after spending so much time on the last coding project. I think this new position is going to be a good mix of hardware and coding, which I think will keep it from getting repetitive.
In other news, I finally ordered some new parts for a new computer for myself. My current system is getting a little on in years with it’s Athlon XP 2600+, 512MB of RAM, and GeForce 3 Ti 500. The new system will be an Athlon 64 X2 4600+, 2GB of RAM, and a GeForce 7900GT. Should be quite a step up, and I’m looking forward to playing some more modern games (suggestions welcome.) Not sure what I’m going to do with the old hardware yet. The chipset fan died last week, so I’ll need to replace that before doing anything with the motherboard, but it’s all still good hardware, so I should find some useful task to set it to.
I’m also trying the whole diet thing again (sounds familiar, right?) with watching what I eat and drinking more water. I’ve also been trying to get out and walk for a bit each day. I figure once I get into the habit of going for walks, I’ll start replacing walks with time at the gym a few times a week. I figure I’ve got a little over a month to get a bit more into shape so walking back and forth from the new office location won’t be a big deal. It just seems silly to drive a car to go a mile to work.
So, life seems to be going pretty well at the moment. I’m being transitioned to a different position at work, which will give me a wider variety of things to work on. Looking forward to it, though I’ll not be in the full swing of it till the end of the project we’re currently working on, which is still 2-3 weeks off. I’m still enjoying the work, the whole development cycle is so much cleaner than it was at SimPro or Net-Temps. It’s just a great place to work.
I’m also getting my finances in order finally. I was hoping to be caught up this month, but it looks like I’ll be all up to date by the end of April instead. I’m pretty much down to just getting caught up on rent and a couple of utilities. Amanda’s finally been able to start paying her share of the rent again, now that things have be sorted out with her new job and she’s started getting paychecks. I plan on opening a secured credit card with Bank of America soon, which should help my credit get back on track. I’d like to be able to get into a new car by the end of the year, and perhaps get into a condo in a year or two.
Speaking of vehicles, I’m open to suggestions on what to get. I’ve been happy with the Focus ZX3, though I think if I were to go for a Focus again it would be the ZX5. Also considering the Toyota Matrix or the 5-door Mazda 3. Ideally I’d like something with all wheel drive for the winters here.
Ah well, I thought I had more to write, but it’s just not coming to me at the moment.
I’ve been meaning to write an update for a while, I was originally intending to write it as a New Year’s thing, but I’m a slacker, so yeah…
Anyway, for those of you who don’t know, I am once again employed doing what I’m actually good at. I’m working as an Application Developer for Dynamic Network Services, Inc., right here in sunny Manchester. It’s mostly perl programming, working on their website and some of the support systems. I’ve been there about a month now, and it’s been great.
I’m still working at PepBoys on Saturdays, though I’m not sure how long I’ll keep doing that. Mostly it’s just because I know they’re low on people and can use the help, and the little extra money helps out.
Other than that, I haven’t really been up to much. I go to a couple D&D games each week, other than that it’s just work and sleep. Delia’s still playing WoW a lot, but I’ve lost most of my interest in it except to kill time from time to time.
That’s about all I can think of at the moment. I could have sworn I had more to write about, but I can’t think of any of it at the moment.
