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1/15/99
I am a Machine Tool Programmer living in Dallas, Texas. This page is here for friends and family to see what's going on in my life. Recently, all my energy has been spent chasing my toddling daughter and looking for a new job. My old job isn't dead, it just smells funny!
5/4/99
Well the smoke is starting to clear. Last November Raytheon announced that they are closing our plant. They offered us a choice between jobs at another facility or a severance package. I am taking the latter. It includes retraining funds so I am enrolling in the UNIX System Administration program at Southern Methodist University. Most people change careers at least once in their lives. I guess its my turn. The timing is perfect. Right when the Information Technologies are booming, some fool hands me a pile of cash and says "get lost". Yippee!! So over the next six months I get to re-invent myself. Jamie is leaving her work to finish her Masters. She wants to teach literature at a college level. Our best case scenario is for me to get certified, land a groovy job in Austin, Tx, Jamie do her Graduate work at UT Austin, become tenured, and buy a hundred acres to grow old on. Is that so much to ask?
12/20/99
Well I guess the SMU class paid off. I start a contracting job at Nortel Networks in January. I will be installing software on Sprint's wireless networks. It sounds like a great first step in my new career path.
5/20/2000
We just finished our software rollout at Nortel. At first I had to travel but later was able to do the upgrades remotely from Richardson, TX. Our next project is to automate the system checks for Sprint using Perl.

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