The Hive is (realy) Dead! Long Live the Hive Mind!
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Mycanid
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No my dear, no. Back from Nevada. The trip was wonderful! 
There is a Serbian family there that was celebrating their yearly "slava" and invited me to come to. A slava is kind of like a Church centered family celebration and involves remembering one's relatives, etc., etc. This family's celebration is in middle-late December. It went until 2 am!
Boy was I worn out.... Fortunately there was no kola/line dancing with loud "oompa-oompa" accordian music! That sort of stuff just drives me up the wall.
But there was great food, great company and wonderful conversation. Good to see friends I haven't seen in a long while.
Hows things with you?
There is a Serbian family there that was celebrating their yearly "slava" and invited me to come to. A slava is kind of like a Church centered family celebration and involves remembering one's relatives, etc., etc. This family's celebration is in middle-late December. It went until 2 am!Boy was I worn out.... Fortunately there was no kola/line dancing with loud "oompa-oompa" accordian music! That sort of stuff just drives me up the wall.
But there was great food, great company and wonderful conversation. Good to see friends I haven't seen in a long while.Hows things with you?
Aurora
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Glad to hear you had fun. That is cool that they invited you to come. Never been to a party like that. I have fun no matter where I go thoughMycanid said:No my dear, no. Back from Nevada. The trip was wonderful!
Boy was I worn out.... Fortunately there was no kola/line dancing with loud "oompa-oompa" accordian music! That sort of stuff just drives me up the wall.
Hows things with you?
We're doing well despite not feeling good still. We are on the upswing though and I am bursting with news, but am not sharing yet
Mycanid
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Aurora said:Glad to hear you had fun. That is cool that they invited you to come. Never been to a party like that. I have fun no matter where I go though
We're doing well despite not feeling good still. We are on the upswing though and I am bursting with news, but am not sharing yet
Bursting eh? Hmmmm. Well, I won't try and spoil anything for the eventual "press release".
It is good that you (and "Tink" I assume?) are on the upswing though.The family in Nevada's last name is Jones, and my last name is the same. The papa of the family is an American and is my godchild (even though he is 10 years older than me
- he decided on me because we were able to talk in depth about sci fi authors and Bruce Stirling in particular). The wife is a complete and utter Serb and is an absolute riot. They have one daughter, now 15 I think, who is of the budding gamer mould at the present - also a character. Guess there were about 30 people there.Hey! Guess what! It turns out that my boss arranged a surprise for me (completely without my knowing). On the 26th of the month I will be flying down to Phoenix and take a shuttle out to Florence, AZ to spend a few days with my folks, who will be there with me until the 29th, when I fly back to Sacto.
Aurora
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Surprises are supposed to be without you knowingMycanid said:
How cool! You must have an awesome boss. So, you are the sole IT person in a small company. Did you move there to take the job or did you already live there and a job just opened up? I am sure IT jobs in a small town are hard to come by. Heck, nowadays, they are even hard to come across in big cities! DShai's whole office got laid off a year and a half ago when he worked at Provident and there are still a couple people that haven't found work. For him to keep his job we would have had to move to Cleveland- heh NOT gonna happen!
Mycanid
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Well ... I moved out here to help with the press, and worked many years in the shipping room. As the years went by I helped a little bit with database entry and "marketing" (read putting addresses on flyers for mailing) and began to tinker with html a bit. Then, when the second IT left for other places (mostly health reasons - he moved to New Mexico) I volunteered to take it up and have learned a lot real fast via the trial by fire method.
Since then we have online ordering, email advertising, massive machine upgrading, servers, backups, offsite backups, .pdf prepress prep, etc., etc., etc. I can only claim the credit for a few of these in terms of actually DOING them, but the rest have come about due to prodding on my part.
So I guess you could say it sorta fell in my lap.
I have had the most help from simply knowing others who work in the business and asking and calling them ... books are helpful for me as a means of remembering and reference primarily. It is hard for me to learn comp stuff from books. But I can very easily pick things up through "audio".
Yes ... I do have a good boss. But don't let it seem like he does this stuff all the time! What helps is that he has an "impish" streak to him and likes to surprise people with stuff like this.
Since then we have online ordering, email advertising, massive machine upgrading, servers, backups, offsite backups, .pdf prepress prep, etc., etc., etc. I can only claim the credit for a few of these in terms of actually DOING them, but the rest have come about due to prodding on my part.
So I guess you could say it sorta fell in my lap.
I have had the most help from simply knowing others who work in the business and asking and calling them ... books are helpful for me as a means of remembering and reference primarily. It is hard for me to learn comp stuff from books. But I can very easily pick things up through "audio".
Yes ... I do have a good boss. But don't let it seem like he does this stuff all the time!
What helps is that he has an "impish" streak to him and likes to surprise people with stuff like this.
Aurora
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That's cool. DShai kind of happenned into his field. He was a MIS student at Wright State and working at circuit city selling computers. He sold a computer to a guy and the guy remarked about how smart he was and said "I would love to find someone like you who is about to graduate that's interested in interet security cause I need an intern." DShai laughed and said "Well you've found him."
Mycanid
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Aurora said:
Isn't it interesting how things like that happen? More and more I hear from folks nowadays that they get their jobs simply by knowing or meeting the right people at the right time. :\
This kinda reminds of the movie I just saw a few days back. A friend of mine knows the person who did the cinematography for the movie. It was the Christmas story one with Will Smith ... actually I didn't think it was that bad. Have you seen this one perhaps?
Mycanid
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A golden tough? :\ Err ... what is this? I have heard of being born with a golden spoon in one's mouth.... But hey, why complain as you said, eh?
The movie was titled "The Pursuit of Happyness" and it is in theatres now. Personally it was not the sort of movie I would pay for to see in the theatres (my friend paid the way), but I would have seen it if it came out on video perhaps.
The movie was titled "The Pursuit of Happyness" and it is in theatres now. Personally it was not the sort of movie I would pay for to see in the theatres (my friend paid the way), but I would have seen it if it came out on video perhaps.
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