Category: Personal

Today was my last day at BellSouth working for the Client Team. I must say, they certainly have a bunch of talented developers, designers, and other disciplines on the team that I was lucky enough to work for, with a good vision for the future of BellSouth. As a whole, I really like BellSouth’s corporate environment, benefits, working environment, and side benefits such as hearing presentations from leading managers and leaders from around the country.

I made some great new friends, had some great mentors, and as always learned a lot. I know those experiences will stay with me and I have defainately changed for the better in working there.

I look forward the opportunities Round Box is offering me, mainly the opportunity to work with other Flash Developers for the first time as well as developing software that actually garners the prefix “legacy” to its name. I’ve never worked on projects that I didn’t rewrite in some way over in 3 month timeframes, and I’m always the lone “Flash Dude” in any environment, so this is a great new experience I’ll get to be a part of, ecspecially creating software in Flash that has positive longevity to customers.

Most importantly, I’ll have the free time to finish school, and won’t brave the retardation of American life that is “driving to work in traffic”… what a frikin’ waste of my life that was. I’ll save significant amounts of money, less wear and tear on my car, and the main point: a heck of a lot of less stress as I can telecommute most of the week.

…did I mention I’m estatic? Leaving a job is always insanely stressful for me as I tend to take things personally that I shouldn’t. I tend to invest a lot emotionally into any endeavor, team, task, etc. that I’m hired on as, so naturally leaving such environments is filled with many a sleepless night. I know, however, that future is bright, I’ll be working with great people, and learn many new things so as the cliche goes, “It’s all good…”. I really look forward to the future.

Weird people have been calling my cellphone. Last Friday I get a call from my hosting service out in Cali, Mediatemple, saying that I was getting attacked by blog-spamming Perl Scripts from Morodor in the thousands, thus eating mad bandwidth.

Then, last night as I searched in vain for my wallet in her majesty’s vehicle amidst ninja attire and weaponry, I got a voice mail on my phone. It was Christina Applegate urging me to vote, although, she didn’t say for what candidate, nor why it was so important, merely using the word important.

Sorry, I’m married, your a little old for me, although people do say love knows no age limit, flattery will get you nowhere. I did vote this morning, though, just felt kind of weird having a hot blonde (is she still hot and blonde, don’t follow her career…?) used as marketting fodder to get the X and Y gen’s motivated to vote.

On a positive note, I do thank Miss Applegate for the encouragement and her efforts.

Speaking of celebrities illegally obtaining my phone number/voice mail box, if whoever is responsible could please drop my digits to Murdock from the A-Team, that’d be swell. I’ve always wanted to thank him for being such a great male role-model for me growing up.

I don’t like shopping… unless it’s for something I want, and even then, I’d much rather utilize a website. The only reason I don’t is for the excuse to mingle with the populace, even if I don’t make eye contact, and 2nd to offset shipping costs. I ecspecially dislike furniture shopping since I have a bed, desk for my computer, and a chair. What else do you need?

Her majesty reminds me of all of those things and more… like having guests over, etc. that I just never really thought about, and keep forgetting on purpose.

I was pleasantly surprised when I actually broke from the usual “husband waiting for his wife” routine men will sometimes do in stores when they are tired of following their wife in circles around the maze of wicker and glass that is your typical furniture store. One usually does this by finding a sample chair with too many pillows on it, and plopping oneself upon it. Your consolation prize is that the pillows in Pier 1 tend to have this neat texture, but even that only amuses me for 1.6 seconds.

I found this box huddled in the middle of the wall. It had stone faces on its tiny drawers. For what this box’ function was, I still cannot say, but I immediately thought of Bush Garden’s Williamsburg up in Virgina, where they have this ride. It’s like… VR or something, and you sit in this moving room with other people, and go on this “ride” of a flying ship through the center of the earth. It’s very 80’s style CG, full of puppetry, and your typical Labrinth/The Dark Crystal look and feel. Atlantis at Paradise Island in the Bahammas, where I went on my honeymoon, before it was destroyed by this years hurricane seasons, had a similiar look and feel in their underground “The Dig”.

I added it to the quickly sky-rocketing furnature bill. Why are we buying all of this again? :: she reitrerates for the 50th time :: Oh yeah. For $30 bucks, I now have my new official dice box. I’m so excited… and abashed that I actually care about furniture other than the necessities I mentioned above.

This is in my dad’s front yard in Ocean City, Maryland, USA.

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