Cut The Body Loose!

As in “How’s the job going, doing, coming, etc?”.

You mean what I have just lately come to call my “day job”.  I work for a company in Houston, but I just go up the river a ways to do that, at a location I’d like to keep vague.  I understand they miss me there, I have been on a health leave for several weeks.  On Monday I will return to work, at least I think so, and then I am told the position will not be funded in 2011 so it ends Dec 31st 2010, five and a half months work, maybe six with a notice at the end.

So I will be happy to go back to work there until the end of the year, and I will use my spare time to work on growing my side business, Terrific.IT LLC , such that it will support three couples or six adults and their children to come starting at New Years Day 2011.

Best regards,

David W.

David E. Wadleigh
President & CIO
Terrific.IT LLC

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The subject line above paraphrases what I asked EJ today once I got him to call me back.  I’ve been leaving voice mails and sending text messages to no avail.  Something about another phone he says but apparently I can’t call it.  EJ has this very long religious message full of meaning to him and worth a couple minutes of airtime for me.

Well, EJ didn’t want to bother me if I was busy and was waiting for me to call – except for some reason he never got the other messages and texts I left.  Now he is out of the box until the middle of the month then he will call me back.

So after I run EJ down I get home tonight and fire up the laptop to discover that I haven’t blogged here in many months now.  So, I ought to answer the same question for the reader now that I “axed” of EJ.

Last night I attended the First Annual Netty Awards sponsofred by NET2NO.  I was pleased to accept a nice paper certificate saying I was a NET2NO Beer Sponsor and some Mardi Gras Beer Mugs Beads around my neck.  Computerrific Technology had sponsored the NET2NO Meetup Group in January 2009.

Other than that, I continue to be quite far behind with bookkeeping tasks, gardening, cleaning and selling off unused items of little sentimental value.   Between all of that, working my day job, running Computerrific Technology and participating in Religious and Social organizations – I really haven’t been able to blog much.

So tonight I figured I’d post something and here it is, just for the fun of it, before I settle down to work in my home office

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A lot of people would have blogged on Jan 31 about 2008.  A lot of people would have blogged on Jan 1 about 2009 and resolutions.  I waited until Jan 2 to do anything about blogging my thoughts, which says a lot about how quickly I accept change.  Its not so much procrastination as that it just takes me some time to process thoughts and feelings before I can write them.  So, since its already Jan 2, here is my take on 2009 version two dot Oh!

Well, the first resolution is that I just must get my bookkeeping done on time this year.  I used to always be caught up on that, but ever since life got put in the blender (back about the start of 2004) I have fallen way far behind and then made that a bad habit.  “Normalized deficiency” is when something is wrong for so long you stop noticing it.  Now I have noticed though, and resolved to clean up my act.  No more late fees, no more taking months to invoice people, no more holding checks for deposit, no more tax deadlines missed!  This story about how I need time to accept change just doesn’t apply to slow bookkeeping.

One look in the mirror tells me that I need a resolution about personal growth, actually about personal shrinkage.  Lets face it, I could loose a hundred pounds and still not look emancipated.  Lets resolve to go for 52 pounds lost in 2009, one a week.  Imagine if I was to strap two large paving stones on me every mor ning an walk around everywhere carrying them!  Imagine 52 ounds of butter in a bunch of Walmart bags to carry everywhere!  Makes me never want to eat again.

Hardly anybody makes only two resolutions.  That is only company for each other, not a crowd for the year.  the first two are about wealth and health, so number three ought to be about happiness.  I’m really pleased to report that after thinking about it I don’t need to resolve to be happier or change a whole bunch on this one.  Its more of a maintenance thing, to follow my heart and my head on the path already chosen (or fatefully put in front of me).  I’m pretty happy now.  I think I shall resolve to spread that around, to make others more happy in all kinds of ways, small and large.  Perhaps that is the secret to my own happiness anyway.

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My Dad was just three days younger than my Mom, yet he survived her by nearly ten years.  Dad was born in Bowden, Alberta Canada on this Dec 30th day in 1924 and died at Calgary, Alberta Canada April 17, 2007 aged 82 years.  Of course I loved him and I miss him, the same is true of my sister and others who knew him.  I saved this as a draft and when I returned to it I discovered that I’m not yet willing to share feelings about this topic in such a public forum.  So will just mark the date and move on.

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My Mom was three days older than my Dad, she claimed senority in some matters because of it.  Mom was born at home in Nanton, Alberta Canada on this Dec 27th day in 1924 and died at The Bethany in Calgary, Alberta Canada Dec 5, 1997 aged 72 years, days short of 73 years.  Of course I loved her and I miss her, the same is true of my sister and others who knew her.  I saved this as a draft and when I returned to it I discovered that I’m not yet willing to share feelings about this topic in such a public forum.  So will just mark the date and move on.

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Being Canadian, and Canada following British Commonwealth tradition, I know about Boxing Day and was surprised to find that here in the USA it is not a national holiday.  When I first started talking about Boxing Day to SueBaby, she thought maybe there was some kind of a prize fight in Canada on the 26th. of December.  The story goes that the British Aristocracy had lots of hired help, peasants living in little English Cottages where the animals slept indoors with them.  On the day after Christmas (which was an exhausting day for hired help), the help got a day off and were sent home Christmas night with boxed up leftovers from the feasting and maybe a little Christmas bonus.  Thus was born Boxing Day.  I put two and two together, and realized this also meant a rare day for the Aristocracy, when they could have the run of their castle with no hired help watching, and could run half naked through the rooms playing with each other, or play with Christmas toys, or do some napping and eating of leftovers.  Drinking too.

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New Orleans, LA – We are hurtling around the sun, and soon it will be Christmas, ready or not. Yet, it is currently 67 deg. F. outside and we probably won’t see more snow for another three or four years after last Thursday, a week ago now.

Due to the climate and weather here, I still find that Christmas doesn’t quite sink in with me until we are mere days away from it. (Similar to the way it is hard to fear a hurricane while the weather is still lovely here.) Suddenly it has dawned on me that its about time I got with the program, hitched up my sleigh and made Merry preparations.

Yet, I am mired still in bookkeeping and year end stuff which is also important to do.

So once again, I am on the cusp of a change, needing to slow down the bookkeeping and begin preparation for Christmas. So, unable to decide if this is the exact moment to switch those gears of if I should keep on hurtling a little closer still to Christmas without panic I chose instead to make another blog post. Also to sip a bedtime smasharoo of Glenlivet Scotch.

It amazes me to think through the years so far about Christmas past. I grew up having Christmas in a house where my breath at night froze on the wall if I faced it, now I sprawl under the ceiling fan here. My Dad and I both had dozens of parties where we wore red suits, I have both suits in the attic now. I have witnessed both the feeding of a tart and later the self defense killing of a wild weasel on Christmas day! In my time I have literally scrambled on icy roofs to make tracks or hang lights, but now I go ouside most times in a short sleeve shirt at Christmas.

Such a contrast in Christmases and my roles in them over the fifty some years of my memory. One day when I’m older and get to stay home more, I’ll have to write a different post every day through Advent about a Christmas past. No time for that this year!

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I picked a fine time to start a blog.  Now its the middle of December and I’m late doing a lot of important things already.  Let me tell you the two things that drove me to start it now.

First, I often have a lot to say.  In fact, sometimes I am said to “rant”, to write “essays”, and to “lecture” people.  Perhaps a blog will be a good outlet for me to express myself and get comments from the handful of people on the globe who care to read it.  Just maybe I can even learn to write more better starting with being more concise.

Second, I need to learn some new things.  WordPress is one of them.  There is a long list of others.  My livelihood depends on me keeping up with new technologies and tools so I can consult, recommend and support clients on what they need now.

I’ve actually been thinking about starting this blog for several months now, and finally made a start.  I won’t be able to spend a lot of time on it until at least after Christmas though, so it will be a while before either the content or the presentation amounts to much.

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