Happy Fourth to everyone!

good news/bad news...

good news. Contacted by old friends in Scotland and Australia, but the bad news was to tell me
and old friend had passed away. :(

I was supposedly being retained until EOY 2017 at my current job, but Corporate mergers intervened and now I have only until E Q1, 2017. bummer, but  Hopefully I should find something soon.

Good news. I made chocolate fudge cupcakes on Sunday.
Bad news or gooder news. I'm taking them into work for my colleagues..  :)

Busy week. Long hours
Tuesday 2am-10pm on a long support call.
Started out as an unresponsive read-only filesystem and ended up
having to move production over to a newly built lab copy.
didn't get finished until 2pm Wednesday eventually.
The rest of this week I'm just tired - really - really tired..
I'm going to bed at 10:07pm tired!
Tomorrow is a lovely day.. :)

Bella redux

Bella has been gone over a year now. Marley is healing our hearts but
we won't forget miss bella

Enjoying working where I'm at.
The variety of work is enormous.

I received some sad news last week. the manager who hired me
succumbed to a long illness.  It's a little strange around here right now.

Getting ready for a long winter down here.
My appartment is warm enough, but there is considerable distance from where I
park to the road. I will need a really large shovel is we get a lot of snow.

New Marley Picture. "where is MY plate?. Oh nm, I'll steal some off of grandad's plate.."

Wow!  nearly a year since I posted anything here.
So much has happened,
I no longer work for HP(C)/(E) whatever.
I'm freelancing as a contractor in Southfield MI.
Had to get an appt. in Pontiac as the job requires me
to go to the office every/most days.
I like the work. It was a challenge at first, driving
busy streets to get to/from work and the work was
a little bit different from what I was used to, but it's still
Unix/Linux, so no BD.

Here's another Marley pic from last summer.

And here's another of Bella - good times!

We LOVE our chihuahua, even if we can't spell Chihuahua...  :)

Cutest picture yet of Marley.

He went to see Santa last Saturday. had a lot of fun, met several new dog and people
friends and got some treats.
The Picture didn't turn out so good because all the people were making noise and trying to
get his ears to perk up - they don't know him - it just confused him...

Here's the pic I took today in the car, while I was waiting for Binnie.
He was cold and crawled inside my jacket...