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North Carolina, Mead, Thoughts
14 years ago
This will be a bit of a rambley journal. It's three in the morning and I can't sleep, so you;re just getting whatever's on my mind.
I have another batch of mead in production, a blackberry strawberry peach. God, the fruit slurry looked nasty going on, but I had so much luck with my last batch, I'm hoping this one will come out excellently as well. I've been in talks with a friend to perhaps go into business, but finding a "commercial kitchen" we can afford as per regulations is a pain in the ass.
My company just got bought out. I think it's just the impetus I need to go back to school. Their education benefits are something on the order of 10k a year, plus they're sending me to a CISSP boot camp in October. Now, really, most of the certs out there, and ESPECIALLY this one, are total BS, but in this field, if you don't have one it's hard to get past the HR monkeys at the door. So I'll play along with their little shenanigans and get it, and get the useless CEH while I'm at it. Seriously, my mom could get that one with a little cramming, and she can hardly find the power button. But it's a nice piece of paper for people to see on your resume. Paper referencing paper referencing paper, good lord.
Thinking seriously about when I want to move west. I mean, it's something I've always planned to do, but I think the point is gonna be once I get my master's, and then the requisite year to not pay it back. Then it'll be time to start looking. I love this area, I love my friends and my chosen family. Hell, I even love some things about this area. But the way a lot of people approach it... it just isn't for me, really. Maybe the west coast isn't either. Maybe it just appeals because it seems new and different, but it'll be the same old shit. But hey, you never know until you try, right?
I feel really lucky with my job, too. I love what I do, I enjoy the people I work with, and I'm pretty good at something that pays well and is in demand. You really can't get much better than that without being born into money. I'm a little sick of my generation being called "entitled" though, in all of these career articles and such. I've seen the shit my friends slog through to succeed. Hell, I've done my time on the low rung, too. Don't hate on us because our priorities are different from yours. Maybe we had no "company loyalty" because companies stopped being loyal to their employees, and we saw that in our parents growing up? Balls, I'm rambling.
I got back from North Carolina a bit ago with a bag full of gems to be cut, so we'll see how that goes. The mines went well, garnets and aquamarines and tourmaline all over. And a few facet-quality quartz bits too, which was nice. I want to do more traveling. And maybe go skiing. Can you believe that I've never gone skiing? I never even think about it, but hey, the winter is coming up. If not now, then when?
I haven't posted since Defcon, either. It was pretty damn awesome. I met some furries out there, too, which was a blast. Need to get back on IRC to hang out, though, but I'm flaky as hell. I guess I'll be better in the future. So many things I need to get my act together on.
But tonight, I think I'm going to sleep.
And tomorrow I'm going to go buy some flowers. Nothing to really brighten a mood like flowers.
I have another batch of mead in production, a blackberry strawberry peach. God, the fruit slurry looked nasty going on, but I had so much luck with my last batch, I'm hoping this one will come out excellently as well. I've been in talks with a friend to perhaps go into business, but finding a "commercial kitchen" we can afford as per regulations is a pain in the ass.
My company just got bought out. I think it's just the impetus I need to go back to school. Their education benefits are something on the order of 10k a year, plus they're sending me to a CISSP boot camp in October. Now, really, most of the certs out there, and ESPECIALLY this one, are total BS, but in this field, if you don't have one it's hard to get past the HR monkeys at the door. So I'll play along with their little shenanigans and get it, and get the useless CEH while I'm at it. Seriously, my mom could get that one with a little cramming, and she can hardly find the power button. But it's a nice piece of paper for people to see on your resume. Paper referencing paper referencing paper, good lord.
Thinking seriously about when I want to move west. I mean, it's something I've always planned to do, but I think the point is gonna be once I get my master's, and then the requisite year to not pay it back. Then it'll be time to start looking. I love this area, I love my friends and my chosen family. Hell, I even love some things about this area. But the way a lot of people approach it... it just isn't for me, really. Maybe the west coast isn't either. Maybe it just appeals because it seems new and different, but it'll be the same old shit. But hey, you never know until you try, right?
I feel really lucky with my job, too. I love what I do, I enjoy the people I work with, and I'm pretty good at something that pays well and is in demand. You really can't get much better than that without being born into money. I'm a little sick of my generation being called "entitled" though, in all of these career articles and such. I've seen the shit my friends slog through to succeed. Hell, I've done my time on the low rung, too. Don't hate on us because our priorities are different from yours. Maybe we had no "company loyalty" because companies stopped being loyal to their employees, and we saw that in our parents growing up? Balls, I'm rambling.
I got back from North Carolina a bit ago with a bag full of gems to be cut, so we'll see how that goes. The mines went well, garnets and aquamarines and tourmaline all over. And a few facet-quality quartz bits too, which was nice. I want to do more traveling. And maybe go skiing. Can you believe that I've never gone skiing? I never even think about it, but hey, the winter is coming up. If not now, then when?
I haven't posted since Defcon, either. It was pretty damn awesome. I met some furries out there, too, which was a blast. Need to get back on IRC to hang out, though, but I'm flaky as hell. I guess I'll be better in the future. So many things I need to get my act together on.
But tonight, I think I'm going to sleep.
And tomorrow I'm going to go buy some flowers. Nothing to really brighten a mood like flowers.
