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Soon to be gone for a week and other news
13 years ago
It seems that quite a few... and I do mean something like HALF the active furries that I have watches on are in some sort of dire medical trouble. Allow me to assure the readers of BtV that I went to do my yearly "is he still fit to deploy" physical and came out of it with assurances that I was as healthy as a... hehe.... bull.
For this I thank Gawd, my parents, and my willingness to go to a gym on a regular basis and lift heavy things. Minor thanks also go out to the Army, for providing said gym and a fair number of soldiers who remind me through example just how much farther I have to go.
In two days I will be on a plane headed for London. Once I get there I'll spend the night, then it's on to the Dominican Republic for a well deserved one week vacation! Hoody Hoo! My girl, my god-children, and my good friends will all be there. We've chosen an all-inclusive resort in Punta Cana, and the list of things we want to do is too long for me to bother putting it all up here SO, I purchased a Go Pro Hero HD 2 camera with sundry attachments. I'll probably hand this camera off to Wyla, who is doubtless more savvy with such things. However, for the really fun stuff, this camera is designed to be strapped to your head, chest, handlebars, etc. It's waterproof, practically indestructible, and I anticipate capturing some really fun and/or embarrassing moments with it.
I will be gone until the 9th, but Beyond the Veil will update on time. We have an update planned for Friday that people here will have seen before, and then the week after will be a normal comic update. Dream Taker and I have been discussing ways to do weekly updates, and what we may wind up doing is putting up character designs on the off weeks, or joke comics. Something to get us up to a once a week update schedule, even though the comic will maintain for now at two pages a month.
Falling also under the heading "other news" I will soon try again to pass the TSHOOT. My last humiliating attempt failed due to my rustiness with switches. I don't work with switches other than to set up DMZ's on them, and DMZ switches are not, as a rule, involved in spanning-tree. Since I didn't have any practice with spanning-tree I borked that whole series of trouble-tickets. I've since studied up. So we'll see. Ashamed as I am to say it, the TSHOOT is the easiest of the CCNP tests. Having failed it after passing the others in the series just brings home to me how important it is not to become complacent in my job and let the days go by with nothing but a paycheck to show for it. I get paid for what I know, so if I don't keep learning... eventually they WILL stop paying me.
Also in other news... come April of next year I will be leaving this gawd-forsaken wasteland of a country. I have no plans beyond the end of my contract, which amusingly enough is April Fools. Rough ideas include seeing my family for the first time in three some odd years, finishing a degree, buying a house and taking some time off. Life, as you know, is what happens when you're making other plans, so for all I know I could wind up in Germany or Japan on another contract two months from now. You just never know. Only thing for certain is that come next April at the latest... I'm fcking out of HERE.
What else is troubling me...
Not much. Here, for once, read a journal that is pretty much all good news. My life is better than I have any right to expect it would be. Healthy, happy, soon to be re-united with my woman, and of course, making the money, which as anyone who has been poor knows, makes everything else better. The only problems I have are first world problems, which aren't really problems at all by definition.
So here is wishing all of you all the happiness and success you can earn, and that you make the most of the opportunities presented to you!
For this I thank Gawd, my parents, and my willingness to go to a gym on a regular basis and lift heavy things. Minor thanks also go out to the Army, for providing said gym and a fair number of soldiers who remind me through example just how much farther I have to go.
In two days I will be on a plane headed for London. Once I get there I'll spend the night, then it's on to the Dominican Republic for a well deserved one week vacation! Hoody Hoo! My girl, my god-children, and my good friends will all be there. We've chosen an all-inclusive resort in Punta Cana, and the list of things we want to do is too long for me to bother putting it all up here SO, I purchased a Go Pro Hero HD 2 camera with sundry attachments. I'll probably hand this camera off to Wyla, who is doubtless more savvy with such things. However, for the really fun stuff, this camera is designed to be strapped to your head, chest, handlebars, etc. It's waterproof, practically indestructible, and I anticipate capturing some really fun and/or embarrassing moments with it.
I will be gone until the 9th, but Beyond the Veil will update on time. We have an update planned for Friday that people here will have seen before, and then the week after will be a normal comic update. Dream Taker and I have been discussing ways to do weekly updates, and what we may wind up doing is putting up character designs on the off weeks, or joke comics. Something to get us up to a once a week update schedule, even though the comic will maintain for now at two pages a month.
Falling also under the heading "other news" I will soon try again to pass the TSHOOT. My last humiliating attempt failed due to my rustiness with switches. I don't work with switches other than to set up DMZ's on them, and DMZ switches are not, as a rule, involved in spanning-tree. Since I didn't have any practice with spanning-tree I borked that whole series of trouble-tickets. I've since studied up. So we'll see. Ashamed as I am to say it, the TSHOOT is the easiest of the CCNP tests. Having failed it after passing the others in the series just brings home to me how important it is not to become complacent in my job and let the days go by with nothing but a paycheck to show for it. I get paid for what I know, so if I don't keep learning... eventually they WILL stop paying me.
Also in other news... come April of next year I will be leaving this gawd-forsaken wasteland of a country. I have no plans beyond the end of my contract, which amusingly enough is April Fools. Rough ideas include seeing my family for the first time in three some odd years, finishing a degree, buying a house and taking some time off. Life, as you know, is what happens when you're making other plans, so for all I know I could wind up in Germany or Japan on another contract two months from now. You just never know. Only thing for certain is that come next April at the latest... I'm fcking out of HERE.
What else is troubling me...
Not much. Here, for once, read a journal that is pretty much all good news. My life is better than I have any right to expect it would be. Healthy, happy, soon to be re-united with my woman, and of course, making the money, which as anyone who has been poor knows, makes everything else better. The only problems I have are first world problems, which aren't really problems at all by definition.
So here is wishing all of you all the happiness and success you can earn, and that you make the most of the opportunities presented to you!
