Long Time No Blog!

Woops! I had a bunch of stuff to post and never did. Now I hope I can remember what it was.

Well, let me think .o O ( thinks and thinks some more )

The website for the class reunion went up and was well received. The first week I received a large number of submissions and comments on it. I was even contacted by a representative of the WMHS class of 1980 about possibly using the format for their reunion. I still get a few things here and there and will continue to post them as they arrive.

Work has been going pretty well of late. We have started a new project and I have been put on the team as Connectivity Coordinator. I have been handling our communications between our users and the network folks since I went out on an installation for several of our offices. In all, it won't be the most difficult aspect of the project, but it will require getting information together from departments that usually don't like to share information. There will be some traveling involved, which I really enjoy, so I'm looking forward to that.

Racing season has ended. I still haven't managed to get back to the track to make sure everything is put away. Everytime I think about stopping on the way home from work, it is raining. The forecast looks like rain for the rest of the week, so I doubt I'll get there this weekend. Thats ok, though. Technically, my resignation took affect after the last race. The owner has never called me to ask why or anything. She told me she would discuss it with me after the races but she left early both nights. Well, maybe not early, seeing as we ran very late both nights. I will miss working at the races this coming summer, but my back won't. I discovered late in the season this year that working at the track was keeping my back irrated. I've been having enough trouble with it lately, so I decided I can do without racing next season.

Anyway, Things are pretty decent at the moment. I've been learning how to use Photoshop so that I can make more fancy stuff for the sites. I'm finding it to be a fairly easy program to get good results with. The trick is learning all the little tricks. I have found some interesting tutorial sites to lend me a hand. Maybe someday you will see a site I created make the big time (HA HA HA HA HA). I'll believe that when I cash the big $$$ check.

Until next time, remember, "Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side and a dark side and binds the universe together."

Reunions, decisions and life's irony

A challenging decision. A rewarding weekend. An oppurtunity missed for a reason in the end.

Well, it has been a most interesting week or so. I had to make a choice between going to my 20th class reunion or working at the racetrack for "The Lil Guy Nationals" two day event. The race had been scheduled since early in the spring and I had just found out about the reunion within the last month. I decided that I had already made the commitment to the racetrack so I would work the races.
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Everything transpired Friday Sept 30th and Saturday Oct 1st. It turned out to be a wise choice to work the track. We had to take a driver to the hospital via air ambulance on Friday night after he slammed into a pole at the corner of the fence at full throttle. I ended up overseeing extrication and removal of the driver to the helicopter. Friday and Saturday nights were both long nights, with record car counts each day.


At the same time, I also decided that I had some extra webspace and since I really didn't have a plan for it, I would create a class/reunion website (see the link above). I began laying out a simple, yet decent looking site. I caught up with Susan who heads up the committee for the reunion and let her know that if they wanted, I would post messages, biographies, photos and other information on the site. I think she thought I was joking, until she looked at the site. I have spent much of this week putting the pictures and informaton up on the website in the evenings after work. I have received many compliments on it from the classmates. The most interesting compliment, so far, has been a request by the West Middlesex Class of 1980 to use my site layouts for their reunion. That in itself says something to me, but what is more interesting, is that the person who is handling the site for the class of 80 is the Campus Web Architect for UMBC, Baltimore Maryland.

I'm still deciding about letting them use the layout, but I probably will. I have been told I will be given credit on the site. I have asked my classmates if they have any objections to doing so as well.

So, I guess this just goes to prove that life ironically will play out as it needs to, not just how you want it to.