As I've been highly scarce, thought I'd drop by to say hello.

The reason why I've not been on is twofold. One, the Win98 hard drive died, and that's the latest Win I have. You know the rest of the story on that one.

Next, I began work at a real company starting December 11. It's not as a software developer, a job I've looked for for three years, and failed miserably to find anything worthwhile. Not only that, but when trying to learn Rails I found I hit the wall. I can't look at code without getting dizzy. I guess writing code for three years either for psychos who threw it all away or for no pay has taken its toll. So I took a huge gut check and decided to change careers. It seems that even with a Master's in Computer Science and two years experience developing flight controls in C, any non-psycho software development house sees me as a complete junior, even the ones which are a 90-minute commute away. They won't be hiring juniors for a number of years, even though "the economy is turning for developers" according to the press. So I might as well spend those few years trying something new. I'm a sales person for a value-added reseller of computers. They, just this past year and a half, changed their training program from three-weeks-good-luck to a full ten month training program on question-based selling. It's something that fits my character, and I think I'll enjoy. But again, it's something new for me, so I have to put a lot of concentration into it.

This compounds the computer problem, as I really have made no real money last year, and jumped into a higher mortgage payment at the same time. My home systems are due for a complete refresh, which will take both time and money, two things I likely won't have for months. Or, at least, time and money better budgeted into other things for now.

So hi-ya, won't see you on the server, hope to poke around here and again.

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Shroom