(with apologies to jwz) Ciber Acquires FullTilt Solutions After three wonderful days of employment, I’m now an employee of Ciber. According to management, nothing is going to change for us, since we all work on profitable projects for large clients. There’s obviously a lot of grumbling in the office, and people are concerned, but I’ve […]

Posted on January 26th, 2004 by admin
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Just an update on the house negotiations. We did receive a counteroffer from the owners, and we’re now formulating our counter. We’re getting pretty close on price, it’s just a few little things (seller assist on the closing costs, and some details of the home inspections) that we need to hammer out. Who knows, maybe […]

Posted on January 23rd, 2004 by admin
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I start the new job today. This should be a nice switch. I’ve always enjoyed working for small companies, but my last job gave me some valuable insight — the small company atmosphere doesn’t work at all when people don’t get along. Not that I’m going to a huge corporation now, but I will be […]

Posted on January 21st, 2004 by admin
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The house hunt this past weekend was quite fruitful. I saw this place in Morningside on Friday, and took Jen and the boy over yesterday, and we all love it. It’s really in move-in condition, which is a bonus. And from the it’s-a-small-world department, I used to work with the guy who is selling it.

Posted on January 19th, 2004 by admin
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Instead of sending out my typical “I’ve got a new job” email message, I thought I’d just make the general announcement here. I’ve got a new job. I’ll starting with Full Tilt Solutions near the end of January. Things just didn’t work out with my current employer (to put things nicely), so I needed to […]

Posted on January 9th, 2004 by admin
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There’s quite a bit talk going around about how NASA’s latest mission to Mars could truly shake up the way we view the world and ourselves. It goes like this: what if the rovers find that there was once life on Mars? Suddenly, there’s proof that perhaps we’re not alone. This sort of talk scares […]

Posted on January 4th, 2004 by admin
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Jen and I are hardly carnivores — we will cook beef/poultry/fish perhaps once a week — but we’ve got a new favorite meat dish to make at home. Braciole. It’s an Italian rolled, filled flank steak cooked in wine and tomato sauce. It’s amazingly good. So good, in fact, here is the recipe: Braciole 1.5# […]

Posted on January 2nd, 2004 by admin
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Ahh, the end of a year. I’ve never cared much for New Year’s (and New Year’s Eve) and this year won’t be an exception, especially since we now have a fine reason to stay home and go to sleep by 10:30pm. I am hopefully looking forward to a new job sometime soon, but that’s merely […]

Posted on December 31st, 2003 by admin
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After having five days at home with the family, it’s quite an adjustment trying to get back into the swing of work, especially when you don’t particularly care for that work. Things are better than they were before the holidays, but I’m still desperate to find different work. I think I’m ready to work for […]

Posted on December 29th, 2003 by admin
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Last night, as I was looking over the various Christmas cards we had gotten from friends and relatives, I realized something about our membership in the adulthood club — we weren’t quite there yet. Sure, Jen sent out some Christmas cards this year, but because of lack of time, they were just generic holiday cards. […]

Posted on December 23rd, 2003 by admin
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