"Ben is an IT guy who is going through cancer treatments. He enjoys writing and this is where the results of that are available for everyone to read!"
"You can find my most recent posts listed here. For further adventures in my life (at least in the past 6 years) try the archives!"
For the next week or so I am keeping my eyes open for anyone interested in my job at TTC. Feel free to email me (ben dot morrell at gmail d0t com) if you are interested or know someone that might be interested. (It's for a part-time IT Manager position, pays between 15 and 20 depending on what you bring to the job)
~B.
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It's been said that Mac computers are more expensive because they are generally better designed. Ok, I can agree that the Mac Book Pro that I own is built very well and such. This however is ridiculous: Want to upgrade to 4 gigs of RAM? That'll be 400 dollars please. But wait?! Why would I do that if I can get the exact SAME ram for 70 dollars somewhere else?
Hmmm... I hope I saved someone 330 bucks just now.
~B.
Labels: technical
Today the shingles pain had dialed up another notch so I only put in a few hours at Taproot this morning. I came home and started the process of making "Pasta Salad". (Which as my mother pointed out isn't anything "special" per se, it's more of a "lets put X and X that we have in the fridge into the salad!") I've been craving something like this for a while and honestly I don't think I've eaten as much food as I did tonight in a long time.
The thing I like about Pasta Salad is that it contains all sorts of things, they all taste pretty good together, and it is WONDERFULLY colorful. My version, this time around, contains: Pasta (duh), Italian dressing, mozzarella cheese, feta cheese, tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, pepperoni, garlic, olives, and corn. Combined that with some "Italian Seasoning", garlic powder, touch of salt and pepper and a bit more olive oil. The great thing about this salad is the longer it sits the better it tastes. I have no problem having this for lunches (Breakfasts?) for the next couple of days, in fact I am looking forward to it. (And you carb haters out there will probably freak out when I say that I will probably have a nice slice of bread to go with that as well.)
This of course is not the first time I happen to have spent a little extra time making up this delightful salad.
The next couple days my boss at NSB is going to be gone so I will be "minding the fortress" while he is away. NSB people have a strange way of coming up with strange problems that suddenly and miraculously fix themselves. Thus I am not overly worried about having too many things on my plate while he is gone. (Have fun in Oklahoma Erik...)
Picked up a book on Python programming this afternoon as well. Reminds me of the first time I opened up a programming book with the intent of teaching myself a thing or two. QBasic for Beginners. Yep. Good times... gosh that must have been more than 15 years ago now. I've tried QBasic, C++, Visual Basic, Perl, and now Python. I am hoping that Python will stick and my desire to use it will be such that I actually DO use it. I would go back to trying QBasic, but that has no application in anything other than DOS 6.x... and even then probably not THAT much application.
Thank you all for your continued prayers on my behalf. These shingles aren't making life any easier at the moment, but these too shall pass right?
Night...
~B.
