So I know I'm supposed to be typing up all the memories and stories of our trip and including pics and all... but I thought I would start off with something completely different (a post about there here and now with no pics)!
I just wanted everyone to know that we are finally safe and sound (of sorts) in Laramie, the big computer made the trip safely and Vger is back up and running in the living room/kitchen. That's the important stuff right? That my computer is ok and the robot vacuum is happy to be cleaning again. Right?
The apartment is great... wood floors through most of it, carpet in 2 of the bedrooms, washing machine and dryer included.... but best of all.... a DISHWASHER!!!!! Big windows in all of the rooms, 2 decks (one off the kitchen and one off of our room), 2 bathrooms (a boys and a girls), a nice sized kitchen with a lot of cabinets and more outlets than you can shake a stick at. Everything seems to be of pretty sound build and all the plumbing/electrical seems to be just fine. So all in all... not too shabby.
Andrea started school at the University of Wyoming last Monday. She's taking just over a full load (grad school full load is 9 credits and she is taking 12)... but they are all classes she really wanted to take and ended up having to fight for to keep them all on her schedule. She's a little bit worried of the work load (30+ books so far assigned this semester) but if she keeps the 12 credits for a semester or two then it really opens her up to take some fun classes the last 2 semesters after she has take a lot of her required courses. We'll see how this semester works out as to whether or not she will take 12 again next semester. Here's to hoping its not too bad.
So Monday before last I had an interview for a part time tech support job. I went it and went over my abilities and they loved how good I was with my hardware/software but wanted me to be stronger on the programing side of things. So they gave me homework to learn SQL enough to take a test for the next interview which would be held in one week. So over the next week I went online and went through like 5 SQL Server tutorials and downloaded SQL Server from Microsoft and did the best I could to learn as much as possible. The next Monday I went in and they tested me on what I knew. They set aside an hour to get through their worksheet, I was done in about 30 minutes.We did end up skipping about half of it because of how well I was doing in the beginning, and I did get hung up on the last portion, but all in all I think it went really well and they said they were impressed with how quickly I had picked it up. Monday they said they would know if they wanted to hire me by the end of the week, but about 2 hours later they called and said that other interviews or not, they wanted me as part of the team. So I am working as a tech support guy for a company called Handel IT who makes Ritetrack which is a human services software. So I am now learning SQL server and eventually C ++ so I can troubleshoot the software side of things and I will use my hardware knowledge to troubleshoot the normal hardware stuff as I always do. After about 4 days of work I feel very out of my element and that the amount of software troubleshooting is going to be way over my head.... but I remember feeling a bit like this every time I start a new job... so we'll just have to see how it goes.
The cats are down in Phoenix, and from what we hear they are doing well. Kitty is sleeping with Geri, who is doing her best to spoil him. She has been giving him chips and stuff so that now when he wants something when she is eating it (out of a bag) he'll bat the bag until he is given some. Titania has aparently been seen sleeping places and every now and then running somewhere... so she's alive.
That's about it for the update post.
I'll see you where the roads meet.
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