Ted Hardy

First Speech

So, I’ve attended 3 meetings of my local Toastmaster’s organization now and have yet to actually give a speech. Yes, I’ve been quite busy, but I have also been a bit of a slacker. I’ve spent many an evening curled up on the futon with a

Friends come and go...

Its coming up on nearly two years since I transitioned out of Lexmark and into Oracle. It was, at the time, the biggest decision I had probably made in my life and one that has been proven to be right, over and over again. Just when it seemed like that

2 month check-up

It is absolutely amazing all the stuff that can happen in two months. That’s how much time has past since I officially became a member of management. We’ve had 2 major software releases, plus 2 more minor ones (and if the phone call i received from my boss

Blog Title and the Future

It seems strange to me that it has been 11 or 12 years since the email that started this whole nickname of mine, which became part of the name for this blog, was written. Me, being the expert on dating and relationships, who had at that time had a whole

Them Post Office Blues

Its sad that in this day and age, sometimes you just don’t have any choice but to visit the post office. Where is my Star Trek teleporter that can beam in physical goods in and out of my home at whim? Why must I spend so much precious time

A Tale of Three Rules

So, if you remember my last post, you’ll remember the greasy, slick, gold-chain wearing trainer from the new manager seminar I attended earlier this week. Yes, I’m going to slightly rag on him again. If you know me, you know I grew up in a Christian home and

Management, studying and searching

The last couple months have been one heck of a ride. My promotion has set up many changes in my daily activities and looks to be setting me up for quite a few more. This will be a bit of a different post for me, much less ranting and much

My evening

Wait, I already know what you’re thinking, “Two blog entries in as many days? Mark these days on your calendar!” Yeah, I know, but sometimes you just have to get something out. Today was a day I had been looking forward to for a week now. While becoming a

Creativity and Music

It is one of those unfortunate facts, bemoaned by me on this blog and by virtually every human on this planet, that we all grow older, every single day. Its not that the new adventures, when we’re actually out having them, are not welcome, or that we are necessarily

Adventures in Missing the Point

Anyone who knows me knows that I’ve never really been a big fan of General Motors. Their designs are less than inspired, their electronics implementation has always been below even what I consider to be worthy of a first year electrical engineering student and their management was worse than

Working late and The World

Sometimes in life, you get way more than you bargained for. Its not that I didn’t expect my new management position to entail a great deal more work. What I didn’t realize was exactly how quickly it would be thrust upon me. I thought there would be a

What a week

There are times in life where you just have to look back and wonder at how it all just seemed to work out. This time last year, I was in Gatlinburg, wondering when I would find a new job and if one of the three interviews I had done over

What a Monday... er, Thursday!

Well, it happened. Something that was scheduled and nearly unavoidable, something to which I was not looking forward to, but something that none the less needed to be done. The last twelve days had been long, grueling at times, yet a wonderful change of pace. I had spent that time

Proving it all once again

Like everyone, I have my moments. Like everyone, those moments tend to be quite spectacular in their carnage and destruction. It was quite a feat that until today, the fourth day of my home improvement spree, nothing untoward had occurred. But in waiting so long, the disaster was just that

More than a year hast past...

Its funny how an event or anniversary holds your attention up until you are right on top of it, then you find that it has come and gone without you even noticing its passing. No, I didn’t forget when Jaime and I went on our first date or anything

Sign. Me. Up.

There are certain technologies out there that just make me drool every time I find a news story about them. Years ago, I heard of a company who had a NASA grant to develop the flying car. I watched them for a very long time, waiting and wishing that they

One more quickie...

In a 180 degree turn from the frivolity of my post 90 minutes prior, I feel obligated to pass along a link of this absurdly cool design work that has been done for mobile devices. Oh, MAN, do I ever want a gadget that will do that kind of stuff.

Mildly amusing

Going to be a short post this evening because I just had to share this with everyone. It would take 27 Mojitos to kill me Mojitos are my favorite drink and have been for a few years. Given my gender and weight, it would take 27 of them ingested in

But what does it really cost????

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is once again everyone’s favorite time of the year… Christmas shopping! Ok, so the stores have had decorations up since before Halloween and I’ve already seen more tinsel than I have any right to, but this giving time of year has me wondering

my day and bonus footage

Well, I guess its not all that bad of a day, especially given how bad last Friday ended up. After having spent an hour explaining to my boss why the programmers didn’t have two of the large items from our upcoming release complete, even though we were a week

Maybe its just that time of year

Aight, a few disclaimers… 1. Yes, I think too much. Yes, I’m over analyzing with everything i say in this post. 2. No, I’m not depressed. See point 1. 3. Watching movies, getting phone calls from old friends you haven’t spoken with in a long time (who

Good Evil Disaster God

Anyone else confused by this?

Once again, Monday morning rolls around and awakens me from a groggy sleep. The prior two days of sleeping in have thrown off my body’s schedule, causing me to once again wonder why it is that I spend 5 days of the week rolling out of my comfortable bed

Things I've learned recently...

This blog entry is going to be a bit different than most as I’m going to rake your eyes with a list of bullets. Basically, this is a bunch of cool links that have come my way recently, all of which have taught me something. Learning is not a

Avast, there, matey!

If you haven’t heard by now, today is National Talk Like A Pirate Day. It is that one day a year, minus Halloween, where you get to pretend to be your favorite swashbuckling hero, Jack Sparrow, or at least some other historical buccaneer. So don’t forget to annoy

St. Lucia, how we barely knew thee...

Wow, what an amazing trip. If you didn’t know, I was out of town the last week, soaking up some sun and fun down in the Caribbean, specifically the wonderful island of St. Lucia. Having been to several islands in that region, I had a general idea of what