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Today was the big day for me at work. My 90 day probation is over on Monday, and today I was promoted to the IT director at work along with a nice raise. I was also given an incentive for another raise in six months if all goes well. Horray. The week...
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The internet service at my employer was unavailable for nearly two days. Upon arriving at work yesterday, an announcement sent by the Information Technology team described the outage and that they were working on it with the hopes if it being restored...
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A couple of hours a day, a few days a week—this is the amount of time my enrollment counselor assured me was all it would take out of my hectic day. Going back to school was never going to get any easier than this. The first few classes were that; well...
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Today I woke up to discover that the mail server for work is completely shut down. Come to find out that my ex super didn’t pay attention to an email three weeks ago and now everything has come to a screeching halt. I am sure that everyone that is out...
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Today I had a pleasant surprise in the mail; it was a refund check from school for overpayment of SallieMae, my student loan account. Ironically, I was joking around with a co-worker that life would be easier if $xxxx.xx amount showed up somehow to help...
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Well, Tuesday the bomb was dropped on me at work. My IT supervisor quit with no notice to relocate and take care of family matters. I have slid into his position along with all of the responsibilities and headaches. It is a big jump for me into the unknown...
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As I was pouring over my textbook looking for content for the assignment due today (yyyeessssss…..I am only just now getting started on it….yyyyeeesssssss…I know, I know…procrastinating again….ok, can we move on?), it occurred to me that not only am I...
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Today at work was surprisingly easy and fairly quiet for computer support. My supervisor had the day off, which left me alone as the IT support. Things went very well. I stopped at the construction site tonight and was very happy to see that they had...
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Is it merely the embarrassment of admitting a lack of knowledge or a lack of the ability to grasp a simple elementary concept that makes us either push forward blindly or give up altogether that prevents us from accepting help from others? Or is it the...
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This weekend, I forced myself to lay around on Sunday. I had four little projects come in late afternoon, but it was nice to make a little extra dough. Saturday we spent most of the day doing chores around the house and made it presentable for a showing...
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It has been a whole week of break that has transpired already since the end of spring session. My next class will be introduction to AutoCAD and I am very excited about it. I got my wish of Textiles class for the second session of summer and am very excited...
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I find it somewhat interesting how much significance routine has in the life of a dog. Our dog is pretty smart, for a dumb dog. I’m not a dog person…I like cats. Cats don’t need people. Dogs need people. When we decided to get a dog last fall, I was not...
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Well, spring session is finally over. The instructor for Composition 2, posted final grades already which is surprisingly fast. I am so glad that I get a month break between now and summer session. My academic advisor said that it is the first time in...
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It is amazing how much more can get done when there is little or no racket occurring in my immediate surroundings. Ok, that sounds like stating the obvious but let me elaborate: The past year of school, for me took place during a hectic time in my life...
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Today I watched part of the Commencement Exercises for the Class of 2008 at the University of Washington in Seattle. Being that I live in California and the University of Washington is in Seattle, my ability to watch part of their commencement exercises...
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