Star Wars: Republic and Empire (OOC thread)

Shalimar · Jul 29, 2009

I take it that Istara and Zenith are excused from their flight duties for the upcoming mission?

drothgery · Jul 30, 2009

Shalimar said:
I take it that Istara and Zenith are excused from their flight duties for the upcoming mission?

Yup. Though you'll be bringing your fighters down with you to provide an escort for the troop shuttle.

drothgery · Aug 5, 2009

Okay, it looks like ENWorld is finally responsive. If this holds up, I'll be out of excuses for not moving my games along.

drothgery · Sep 6, 2009

Mini-bump because I hope the game's not dead, but I'm going to be out of town Tuesday and Wednesday.

Friadoc · Sep 6, 2009

I'm here; Wes is just quite since, well, he's observing and I didn't think a flood of "Watching, still watching, oooooh watching...." would be needed.

But, I'm here.

Edit: Just to clarify, that's not a complaint, as I'm having fun with my character and what not, just a common on my posting style. i.e. I don't post if I don't need to post.

possum · Sep 6, 2009

I'm still here, my character just has nothing important to do right now, because I doubt going around and asking questions in a Republic navy uniform is all sorts of trouble.

Shalimar · Sep 7, 2009

Sorry about my slowness, I just finished a finals week from hell. A 90 page paper on Project Management, three take home finals that averaged 20 pages, coding an inventory management system for a web services course, and then in the midst of that moving.

drothgery · Sep 7, 2009

Shalimar said:
Sorry about my slowness, I just finished a finals week from hell. A 90 page paper on Project Management, three take home finals that averaged 20 pages, coding an inventory management system for a web services course, and then in the midst of that moving.

Y'know, even after a few months of unemployment, the idea of coding anything major and not getting paid for it still does not sound like fun

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Friadoc · Sep 7, 2009

drothgery said:
Y'know, even after a few months of unemployment, the idea of coding anything major and not getting paid for it still does not sound like fun .

Oh, tell me about it. I've been out of work since April of 2008 and went back to school, since I want(ed) to bail on my current indsutry; I've been an IT monkey since 1996, working the range from run-of-the-mill customer service jobs to deep support to field services to systems administration.

Anyhow, I've earned an Associates degree, thus far, and I'm now in the process of working towards a Bachelor's degree, maybe two. I'm an Applied Psychology major, with my Associate's in Criminal Justice, and I'm thinking about adding a Communications program to my load, thus double-majoring. But, for some odd reason, the idea of adding a Software Engineering Technology major, instead, has suddenly become quite strong.

Now the reason that this is odd is due to the fact that since the past few years and change have been fairly rough on me, mainly due to living (previously) in an area with an unstable tech sector that flooded the local market with a lot of talent on three separate occasions in the decade that I lived there (Boise, ID). Yet, now, I suddenly find myself thinking of diving back into, this time with some paperwork and certifications behind my experience.

Eh, we'll see. Sorry for the share flood.

drothgery · Sep 7, 2009

Friadoc said:
Oh, tell me about it. I've been out of work since April of 2008 and went back to school, since I want(ed) to bail on my current indsutry; I've been an IT monkey since 1996, working the range from run-of-the-mill customer service jobs to deep support to field services to systems administration.

Hmm. I picked up a Computer Science degree in early 1999 (should have been 1998, but a bit of sophomore year slacking and changing my major from EE to CS added a semester), and worked mostly as an in-house web developer until the end of 2008. My job description got kind of fuzzy after we were acquired by a company that outsources most of their development work, even fuzzier after the transition work was done, and then was laid off at the end of April. Since then I've mostly been out of work; I thought I had a job last month, and even worked for a bit, but that disappeared in a contract dispute. But now I'm doing some consulting for the people who are doing my old job.

I've toyed with the idea of going back to school from time to time, but a graduate CS degree is pretty much useless outside of academia or research-oriented work (or to signal you know what you're doing when your undergrad degree is not in CS). Certifications tend to become obsolete quickly. And I can't talk myself into getting an MBA.