07/06/2005 Archived Entry: "Anniversaries"
More than a year since that last entry. Crazy. I'm not too good at this blog thing.
Let's see--things that have happened to me:
* Bought a house and moved in
* Got a promotion
* Saw some movies
* Went on some trips
That's it.
Currently enamored with House, M.D. and Grey's Anatomy, and I have developed a shocking taste for Hell's Kitchen. Scary, no? I berated television for so long, and now the thing I railed against has become my wife's and my evening companion. Such is life.
I moved into the corner spot at work, and have since turned both of those monitors to portrait, which is a hugely efficient way to work since information that's on a page is actually displayed like a page. This is important because we are thankful that we have jobs.
Jobs. The job is going well--very well, which almost makes me nervous. From November 2004 through last month, I oversaw the implementation of a new SAN-on-NAS storage solution and the migration of ~20TB of data onto it; we lost not one file and had no complaints, which is some kind of record. I got a promotion out of it, hooray for me and stuff like that.
My friend Jason's depression continues. To recap, Jason was married to Kim--technically is married to Kim, although there's a divorce in the works--and then they both did many retarded things and split up. I've known Jason since junior high and he's one of my four closest friends in the world. I wish there was something I could do to help him other than just be there for him, but if there is, I'm too dense to see it. I try to just be supportive.
My dear wife got into a fight with her best friend because her best friend doesn't understand how to communicate; best friend felt ignored by her husband so she left him and slept with at least one, and possibly two, different guys, one of whom had been making his attraction to her very clear since before she even married her husband. My wife wanted to be supportive but disapproved of her getting her freak so massively on while still married; best friend didn't want anything from her except positive reinforcement. So, they don't talk any more. Nick, if you're reading this--sorry, buddy, but Jennifer is cheating on you with Ed. And some other guys, too. We're not supposed to say anything, but, hey, what do I care?
Shifting gears.
It has now been more than ten years since I appeared on this incredible edible Internet. In 1995, as a lowly sales associate at the local Babbage's, I took advantage of the free offer Netcom was giving to Babbage's employees and grabbed a Netcruiser disk and fired it up. My first e-mail, sent shortly after to a coworker over a blazingly fast 9600 bps dialup connection:
From: pokerfac@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Hey, Morgan!
To: aragorn@xxxx.net
Date: 19 June 1995 18:08 GMT-5
Hey, Morgan! What's up?
Well, here's my E-Mail...make sure to reply to me, now, so that I'll
know what my address is...it's got "pokerfac@" in it, but I don't know
what the rest of it is...
So, I'm just gonna surf around in here, mainly on the web...which is
pretty cool...too bad it takes FOREVER to get new pages...hehe...that
little status bar just CRAWLS across the screen...NetCruiser is a
pretty good software package. I've basically got a row of icons up at
the top of the screen: Read E-Mail, Send E-Mail, Browse the Web,
Browse Gopher, Read NetNews Newsgroups, Post to NetNews Newsgroups,
FTP, Telnet, IRC, and Finger (look up user info).
Anyway, I'm gonna go now...talk to ya l8r!
How things have changed.
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