What Are You Working On?

[Janx]

ssampier, why are you working on XP? That OS is going to go EOL fairly soon, it's already been new-genned twice.

Granted, there are still installations of it (my new laptop came with XP and Win7), and I'm running XP to avoid some "new" issues.

But paying to get a cert in a dying platform is dicey. Paying to get a cert in the current platform in a timely fashion, might be a better investment.

I say this, however, as somebody who doesn't have any certifications. My bachelors degree, patent, and former employer are generally enough to certify my credentials who knows his business.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Currently, I am looking for work. Specifically entry level engineering work that I need to finally move on with my life. I am working for the U.S. Census, but that's very little hours and extremely temporary. I just hosted an event for my IEEE section, an IEEE lobbyist I had met last year came and gave a presentation on congressional spending and other bills and how it will affect engineers. I'm going to the monthly meetings and as many other events as I can, trying to network.

The biggest time suck for me at this very moment is rushing to get in my application to be a commisioned officer. I just got a medical waiver late last week after almost half a year trying for it. Originally, due to the economy and thus high supply of recruits, all selection boards had been cancelled for at least the reast of the fiscal year. Then last week I saw that they're holding one last board for "critical" degrees (which includes mine), but applications have to be received by...this upcoming Friday. Needless to say, having spent all these months expecting to be medically rejected (condition in question is almost impossible to get a waiver for) I wasn't really prepared to submit, and am scrambling like mad trying to finish everything in time. I have my interview tomorrow, don't even know at what time it will be yet.

Oh, recently moved into my first apartment, too. It requires a lot of cleaning/work, the landlord didn't fix it up nearly as much as he said he would.

 

[Mouseferatu]

I am, just not anything related to a NDA... yet!

So, Liam Neeson as Corvis makes sense?

Liam's one possibility. I usually tend to think of either a slightly older Viggo Mortensen or a notably older James Purefoy. Or any combination thereof.

But it's your pick (and your pic); draw it as you see him.

 

[Klaus]

Liam's one possibility. I usually tend to think of either a slightly older Viggo Mortensen or a notably older James Purefoy. Or any combination thereof.

But it's your pick (and your pic); draw it as you see him.

You said he was tall, and had some mass in his youth. That and the rescue of his daughter put me in mind of Liam Neeson in "Taken".

 

[Umbran]

I don't have a green thumb myself. I routinely killed house plants. Do you have to do much to your soil to get your plants to grow?

The standard "square foot gardening" sources will tell you to use a special blend. Some of the bits of it are expensive, so I use more normal dirt.

I got the blueberries from a farmer-friend of mine, and he gave me some instructions - peat moss underneath, enriched the soil with manure (which he provided). The others are all growing in raised beds - a mixture of "topsoil" (which is literally dirt cheap, 'cause it is cheap dirt) and "garden soil", which is less cheap in both senses. At the end of every season, I work some new manure into the beds. It sits and mulls itself over the winter, and works well to help sprint planting.

Any time I'm increasing the size of the garden, new beds get some old soil from the old beds, and then we work new garden soil into everything. I then occasionally fertilize with standard stuff, and things grow well.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

I work at a dead end job which pays enough to stay alive, not enough to fix our cars or let us move out of the extension in my in laws house.

I work nights, limiting my social outleets and putting my D&D game in direct conflict with everything.

I have cleared all half finished projects.

I am currently painting miniatures and organizing my itunes library.

 

[francisca]

I'm working on a couple of submissions to Penthouse Forum.

 

[ssampier]

ssampier, why are you working on XP? That OS is going to go EOL fairly soon, it's already been new-genned twice.

Granted, there are still installations of it (my new laptop came with XP and Win7), and I'm running XP to avoid some "new" issues.

But paying to get a cert in a dying platform is dicey. Paying to get a cert in the current platform in a timely fashion, might be a better investment.

I say this, however, as somebody who doesn't have any certifications. My bachelors degree, patent, and former employer are generally enough to certify my credentials who knows his business.

I have considered that. I probably shouldn't even bother with Windows 2003 server (the last version for MCSE/MCSA). My philosophy is there's still lots of that stuff around, at least here in Utah; most didn't upgrade to Vista and keep their Windows XP stuff.

I may or may not take the actual exam. We'll see. I just need something to keep me busy while looking for jobs.
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[Woas]

waso working on agetting dfrunk earlier but now i'm done.

 

[Mouseferatu]

You said he was tall, and had some mass in his youth. That and the rescue of his daughter put me in mind of Liam Neeson in "Taken".

Fair enough. As I said, I want to see your interpretation of it; don't feel at all bound by mine.