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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Getting my geek on

I am so lonely at work. I am the IT Director for a Research facility that focuses on HIV and childhood diseases. Due to the lack of funding for grants, we have shut down labs and researchers have either moved on or out of the field. I love what I do. I get to work with all the cool programs that sequence DNA, watch cutting edge ideas for development of new vaccines as well as solve network problems and come up with cost effective creative solutions. I really love my job, BUT...there is NO ONE here who understands what I do!

So, last night, hubby got home from his new job (he is in IT as well) and I literally bombarded him with questions about his day because I am so starved for tech talk. He is now working with a team and I am so jealous. He told me about his day until he finally said he was tired of talking about it. He is right, I am not bored but lonely because I have no one to talk to when I use a sniffer to track down a rogue access point, catch a hacker poking at my firewall, change a disk in the cluster without downtime or come up with a really cool work around for my scientists. Yes, they are my scientists and I love working with them.

Poor hubby - got my geek on him last night till he said "ENOUGH!!!"

Gotta run and figure out why our video conference system is misbehaving - I will hug my imaginary horse before I go though :).

I love my job!

Friday, January 20, 2012

Focus on the good

I admit it, I need some therapy right now. But until I can get that setup, I have decided to focus on the good that is happening.

At my son's soccer game last night, I had the chance to catch up with a couple of good friends. We made plans to get together Saturday night and it just felt good doing something normal. Unfortunately his team lost but it was fun and the boys played the best they could.

After picking up dinner for the humans and the cats, I started working on the Oxford plans. Oh, didn't I tell you? My son got accepted into a 4 week program for Oxford University (yes ENGLAND)! He will be studying math, physics, debate and photography. They have field trips and he will meet kids from all over the world. I was trying to find something this summer that would challenge him and I think this will do it. I also wanted him to meet new kids and that will definitely happen. His buddy was also accepted so they will be able to bunk together. His parents are going to bring the boys up and we will bring them home. My little nerd - he is so wonderful! I guess I should stop saying little, he passed my up by 2" this month. OK not hard to do because I am only 5' 2" but at 12 and 5' 4" he is taller than most of the kids in his class.

Hubby started a new job this week -yeah! He is a nerveball about it but I know he will do fantastic. He seems to like to so far, I am just glad he is no longer at the other job. They were working him into the ground. Getting a good job in this economy shows how valuable he is - sillyhead will not believe me when I tell him though.

My father-in-law is starting chemo next week - yeah! WHAT?? you say. Yeah because they feel he is strong enough and a good enough of a candidate to go through it. He had small cell carcinoma in the bladder, which is very rare. Of all the bladder cancers that are found, small cell carcinoma is on .05% - 1/2 of 1%! It is also extremely aggressive so they are saying he is tumor free and the chemo will hopefully knock out any microscopic small cell carcinoma in his system. So, Yeah! My father-in-law is starting chemo.

The animals are all doing well. At Petco last night, I made the mistake of looking at one of the shelter cats - I have to stop doing that. No I did not bring her home but I just get pissed that people allow their pets to breed and dump them. I remember being young and nearly every family in our neighborhood let either their dog or cat have a litter so the kids could experience the miracle of life. Being young, I thought it was cool. We got to help "raise the babies" and if we could not find them homes, we could just bring them to the shelter so they could. I choose the believe the parents did not understand what would really happen. All our cats are strays:

Mini walked up on my husband and his evil ex-wife starving at 6 months
Maggie was adopted from a shelter - I think she was born at the shelter
Ashley was found by my wonderful sister-in-law starving in the bushes at 6 weeks
Murphy walked up on my father-in-law skin and bones with an embedded collar at 5 months

The positive is that we have them and they are ours for life.

I find myself reading dreamhorse.com. I know I do not have time but I wish I had a horsey.