continued -->Well, I'm still doing the school thing. Currently carrying a 4.0 GPA which is amazing! Third quarter is proving to be more difficult than 2nd but I guess that's to be expected. I've got homework coming out my ears and not enough time to hit my fat ass with both hands.
Maybe I'll get creative this weekend and do a site overhaul. Hope you all have a very safe and happy Fourth of July.Labels: Education
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continued -->I missed class yesterday because of the fucking snowstorm that hit. The white shit was drifted so high, I couldn't open my front door let alone get to the garage.
Today's much better although bitter cold. Class was okay -- all about CPUs and Memory. I'm thinking this class will be useful in the future but I'm just not a mechanical kinda girl. I leave the hardware to Bro4. I'm all about the software.Labels: Education
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continued -->UGH!!! Since ITT is an accredited school, general education courses are a part of the cirriculum -- math, science, social studies. Today begins three months of math, quite possibly my worst subject. This will certainly be interesting. I haven't had to add, subtract, multiply or divide fractions in over 25 years. And what's this "Magic One" the damned instructor's talking about. I'm so fucked! I think I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and ask Sis for help.
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continued -->Well, here it is -- Day Two. As the school is undergoing renovation, nothing is where it should be. I spent 30 minutes wandering the halls looking for the classroom. Now, at five minutes before the start of class, only four lone souls sit in front of more computer and testing equipment than I've ever seen. Unfortunately, the snow's been falling for the past two days here on the North Coast. It sure is pretty if you don't have to be in it.
Sometime later
Ah ha! moments rock! I think I finally understand how to convert a standard number to a binary one. 0001 1001 0110 0100 is the year of my birth. How fucking cool is that!Labels: Education
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continued -->Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I'm 46 years old and about to embark on Life v2.0. After 24 years in the public sector, I'm starting over again. Although Black Rock was good to me, we've parted ways albeit involuntarily. With the unemployment rate on the North Coast in double digits, prospective employers are being very selective in their hiring practices -- good for them, shitty for the average Jane who has a shitload of experience but no certification or degree to backup that knowledge.
So here I sit in a classroom of much young people waiting for the instructor to arrive and the learning to begin.
I definitely need to go back to LensCrafters to make sure my new glasses are the correct prescription as I can't clearly read what I'm writing. I'm also going have to contact Bro2 and put him on the hunt for an affordable laptop. Although I love putting pen to an actual sheet of paper, we all know this will have to be put into electronic form to share with the world.
Since it's been forever and a day since I've done any blogging, I look at the aesthetics of my little electronic world and realize it's time for an overhaul -- new layout, new graphics, new widgets -- the whole nine yards. Damn, that is such a daunting thought seeing as how I haven't done any sort of coding in well over a year. Consequently, I'm not up on any of the changes Blogger has made. Maybe I need to research moving this tome to another cyberhome. (Hey, I made a funny! Guess I haven't lost it after all.) Class is beginning so I'll be back later.
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Phase one of the class has been review and recap -- what instructors call a "soft landing" or introduction to college life. As the regular instructor isn't here, a sub covered almost nothing and we were out an hour early. Lord knows what tomorrow will bring. Here's to higher education!Labels: Education
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continued -->Well, I'm still alive but clawing to keep my head above water.
October 20th, Black Rock decided I would do better somewhere else. I haven't been in the job market since 1986! So, I'm now scraping by on unemployment for something like 20 weeks.
My days are spent searching job boards and North Coast companies for, at this point, any opportunity. Oddly enough, despite 24 years of "real world" experience, I ain't qualified for shit!! So, in order to be competitive, I've got to go back to school. Me! A 40-something tub o'goo has to go back to school to get a damned job. Where the fuck did I go wrong the last 24 years?? Whose ass didn't I kiss?? Why am I in this position??
I'll start classes on December 6th at ITT-Tech for, get this folks, computer network systems. Talk about a career change!! But, after 24 months, I'll have that damned degree employers are demanding.
I'm gonna have to find something part time because unemployment won't last and why start a full time job when I'm going to school full time. Just what I fucking want to do at this stage of my life -- start over.
The more I replay the "discharge" from Black Rock, the more pissed off I get. There were other options. Things didn't have to go down the way they did. I didn't have to be in this position but I had no clue this was the course the powers that be were going to take. I was caught completely off guard. I was dumbfounded and, at the time, had absolutely nothing to comeback with. And, I can't burn the bridge to Black Rock. In today's economy, no one can afford to cut off their nose to spite their face, right?
I could probably keep venting but I've had a horrific headache for 2 days now and really need to try to get some sleep. Can you say drugs and alcohol? I'll keep you posted, really I will.Labels: Life or Something Like It
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continued -->Greetings and Salutations,
After receiving an email from my only reader, I've updated all my links in the sidebar. Going through them, I realize I'm not the same woman who started this blog six years ago. The biggest change is I'm not obsessed with sex, gay, straight or otherwise. Yes, I still find sex a fascinating subject; it just doesn't control my life as it used to. I guess I'm growing up or I'm getting old.
These past six years have seen a change in how people are communicating and expressing themselves online. Blogging was the "in" thing way back then. Then there was myspace. Now, there's Facebook and Twitter. So, is blogging as we knew it dead?
In almost every post, I tell you that there's so much more I want to write about but it never seems like I get around to writing anything of any importance. Blogging was supposed to help me de-stress, to get things off my chest that I couldn't tell a living person but I don't think it accomplished that goal. I'm great outta the gate but suck in the straightaway.
Don't panic, though. I'll still be around. Maybe I just need to schedule time to blog at least once a week even if it's just to recap local, regional, national and world events. Maybe I throw in some random antecdote or even vent about all the shit that pisses me off. Who can tell?!
Reading this over, it's pretty random but I felt I needed to post something to let anyone left reading this know I'm still here.
Peace, Love and Understanding!!Labels: Life or Something Like It