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Gainfully Employed

Posted by Steve on October 7, 2013 No comments

After 3 ½ months of searching during one of the worst times for a govt. contractor to be searching for a job, I finally landed a position! Sarah also started a new job as well. It’s been a super stressful few months and I am really glad for the emotional support of my friends and family during that time. But hey, that’s done and I have joined the productive society again! I am now working in a local (to Northern VA) hosting company doing Tier 3 Windows support. Should be interesting getting back down in the support weeds. Who knows, it may lead to a whole new variety of twitter jokes.

Sadly, this does bring an end to my series of “Cover Letter” jokes. please feel free to go back and see the hilarity that ensues when you try and add the wrong things to cover letters.

In the month since I went to shoot the LADEE launch, quite a few things have happened. One of the reasons I haven’t written much since then is primarily due to the crappy depression that accompanies something like unemployment. (That and the lack of sleep, irritability, feeling of worthlessness….you get the picture) So lets see if I can shotgun these out.

We started doing a Webcomic over at RetroNickRadio!! It’s really cool and you should go read it.

I went to shoot some Roller Derby!

Two Words….Midget Wrestling. (yeah, that happened)

Sarah and I celebrated our return to work with a trip to Universal Studios.

We got to attend a great concert by Wil Wheaton Vs. Paul and Storm

And finally, two of our super awesome friends were finally allowed to be married in Maryland so we went to wish them well.

The next month should prove interesting as I adjust to a new work schedule (read that as “Actually working again, and not in my Pajamas”)

Moving right along

Posted by Steve on February 26, 2013 No comments

Sarah and I are packing up and getting ready to go!!!

That’s right, end of February marks my return to Kuwait and this time I am taking Sarah with me! (that sounds much more ominous than it is.) For the next 10 months (roughly) She and I will be working out of the Fintas region of Kuwait. (you know, should you want to stop by if you are in the neighborhood.)

So what does that mean for things around here? NOTHING! I’ll still have internet out there (as proven from the last trip) and it should be even better than before since I am looking at upgrading our apartment with a MADA Wi-Max connection. Pictures will still happen and fun will still be had.

And now, few words on JoCoCruiseCrazy3:
If you go to Thesaurus.com and type in the word “Awesome” you get the following result:

Awesome
Main Entry: awesome [aw-suhm]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: amazing
Synonyms: alarming, astonishing, awe-inspiring, awful, beautiful, breathtaking, daunting, dreadful, exalted, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frantic, frightening, grand, hairy*, horrible, horrifying, imposing, impressive, intimidating, magnificent, majestic, mean, mind-blowing*, moving, nervous, overwhelming, real gone, shocking, something else, striking, stunning, stupefying, terrible, terrifying, wonderful, wondrous, zero cool

These Synonyms do not even begin to describe the cruise Sarah and I went on. We had heard of JCCC for the past few years and thought about attending, but either time or money didn’t match up and we just couldn’t do it. Then we would see all the pictures and video from the folks who went and instantly regretted not going. This time, we pulled the trigger and were not disappointed.

I am not even kidding that each and every Synonym in that list is represented. There were 700 other geeks and nerds to meet and a lot of times that process of reaching out and doing something that you don’t normally do is terrifying, but also wonderous! (see what I did there?) The group we were with was so embracing and understanding, it really was like an extended family.

Each night of the cruise we sat at a different table and talked with different folks. That alone was one of the best experiences. Each table we approached, if they had room, welcomed us in. I don’t want to drone about it too much (too late) but I will say that I would choose this cruise and the people on it over every DragonCon and every other convention, any day. Don’t believe me? Come on the next one and test that theory.

Anyways, expect more travels! Sarah and I are planning on visiting some remote locations over the year so keep an eye out for that. In the meantime enjoy some pictures!

The full JCCC3 Slideshow:

Get caught up on my Project 365:

Check out those wacky Trooper Adventures!

A month of travel.

Posted by Steve on December 27, 2012 No comments

So i finished up a full month (maybe a tad over) of traveling for work. Not just the typical “Go there, be gone for a month, come back” Nope, I would fly out for a week, fly back for the weekend. Destination: Sierra Vista AZ. It was hard on the body but at least I got to spend my weekends with Sarah.

Here are a few things that happened while I was gone. (Both good and bad)

I got really involved with the game Ingres on my phone.
In Said game, I took out Tucson. Made a lot of enemies and a few friends.
We had our annual Christmas party which was a hoot!
We learned that our dog, Husker, had a relapse with cancer and had to be put down.
We put a Christmas tree in our Tardis! (With Added Doctor Nativity scene)
We survived the Mayan Apocalypse!
Horrible things happened to children in a school
Nick and I did a Podcast about Violence in Video Games
Christmas was had and time with family was spent

Just because I wanted another fun travel pic.

That should bring us all current with what’s going on. Now we approach the new year and it looks like there will be much in the way of travel for the year 2013. This time there is a good chance that Sarah and I will both be doing the traveling together. More on that as it develops. With any luck, you will see lots of posts about Photography and Gaming from overseas. Will be interesting to see what the culture is like in other places. (like we did in London!)

Speaking of gaming, Sarah and I wrapped up Borderlands 2 (although she is still playing to get all of the extra stuff), I picked up and finished Halo 4 (still working on Spartan Ops), and I am playing The Walking Dead from Telltale games on my iPad. I still get out to play some Ingres, but I hit the level cap and am having a hard time finding more to do it. I hope that will pick up soon.

Sorry things are not more upbeat. I was hoping to have more to write about but the end of the year is just….well, the end of the year.

Of Websites and Podcasts And things

Posted by Steve on March 14, 2012 No comments

For the past few weeks I have been helping a friend work on his website. He was using an old Blogger site to post some incredible works and I knew that WordPress would help him get some better exposure and have a better design. So, having done some work on mine, and Sarah’s site, I thought I would lend a hand. So now I present to you, RetroNick.com! It’s a retro style gaming site where Nick talks about his collection of classic games and even some discussion on current games.

You may notice that in honor of the site relaunch, there is an inaugural podcast along with it! That’s right, the gang here decided to start up a podcast! The podcast is going to be mainly game oriented (with various antics, of course) but a lot of comparing new to old and how the industry is.

Well, we hope, that is.

Odds are it’s just going to be a bunch of guys drinking and talking about games. Only recorded. So check out RetroNick’s new site and maybe give the Podcast a listen!

Malware sucks!

Posted by Steve on January 10, 2012 No comments

Well, not sure if anyone noticed, (given that I probably only have like 3 people that read this) but my main site came under attack recently. Apparently there was a wordpress exploit that someone got a hold of and it set up all kind of weird re-directs in my site and in Sarah’s food blog. This cause some posts/pages to browse to some Russian malware site. So, yea, huge apologies for that screw up. BlueHost (my hosting company) help me clean out the junk and get things updated and fixed.

I took this opportunity to clean things up around the site and try out a new theme/look. This only affects the main site, not my Tumblr site (which usually has the same posts).

As per usual, I am going to try and do some more posting with the new year. So far 2012 looks like it’s going to be a busy/crazy year. That is, if I can get off my butt and not play Star Wars: The Old Republic so much. I’ll see if I can get a post up about that in the coming few days.

As per usual, Stay Tuned! (and sorry for that Malware thing, really….you may want to see a Doctor and get checked out)