The Moore’s

I may not be happy about the state of the Presidential election and choices, but I have made up my mind who am not voting for.

I spent almost 20 years of my life in the Commonpoor of Taxachusetts. I lived through the “Nixon 49 - Massachussetts -1″ Bumper stickers during the McGovern run in ‘72. (I don’t know how its possible, but you still see people with that on their cars :shock:)

Anyway, back to thed point of this post. I volunteered to help out at the RNC in NY next month and the orientation takes place tomorrow. I’m not sure what their criteria was or how they are handling all of the security aspects of this, but I am going to NYC tomorrow night for an orientation session where I guess they are going to tell us all about this. I’m not doing this because I am pro president Bush:oops:, rather its because I actively support any type of political activity, and I happen to be reasonable close to NY.

More information will certainly follow on this topic

This morning I am meeting with our CIO. I have found a few articles that were interesting this one and an older one. From what I’ve heard he is quite a guy and I’m looking forward to the meeting. The project I am leading was mentioned here , so…, its probably important to leave a good impression this morning.

On an entirely different topic, this has to be the funniest and most poignant politcal animation I have seen to date. Sadly, this pretty much says it all about the current state of the US presidential campaign. Personally it doesn’t matter which candidate I’m in favor of, or which you support. You’ll probably agree with everything in this satire.

So I was really really looking forward to collecting at least one unemployment check in between jobs. All these years of paying in and I get severed from Altria and a I have almost a week in between jobs. So I went online to collect NJ unemployment and then today filled in the form for weekly benefits. I guess people make too much money nowadays because working 2 days my last week and three my first at the new job I got disqualified for a check. I’m sorry but that just really pissed me off. F*&^g government :mad:.

So I’m not sure what is going on but my work email communications could become a pia. Some of my friends may have already become targets of their spam filtering although I have not had this confirmed, and at least one source has denied this happens. From one source I was told that they do not want personal correspondence taking place from the workplace. Since I draw such a nebulous line between work and personal this is going to be interesting. I send questions and get valuable feedback from non-office people on technical questions all the time. Isn’t knowledge sharing and its effects part of the what has made our professional spheres of influence and our cumulative knowledge so valuable and our relationships so beneficial. If I can’t find a way around this I am going to shoot myself.

So today I had employee orientation at my new job. So many times its just the same old thing, but Tiffany & Co.’s orientation had a new twist at the end. Everyone had to learn how to tie a Tiffany bow. I kid you not… So in case you ever want to tie one, here is how:

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Hold box so that Tiffany & Co. appears vertically.
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Our new Kitty is named Bailey. He is a cameo dollface persian. He is absolutely the funniest cat. Our other two just kind of tolerate him, but he won’t stop thinking that their tails are his toys. Here a few shots from when we first got him.

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The breeder still has a few from the litter that are available.

I was unemployed for a total of 4 days. I started at Tiffany & Co today. They have been really great to deal with through the past 7 weeks since I initially interviewed. I am going to be a project leader for them on some key initiatives over the next 2 years.

Proving that IT is the smallest community I have ever known, one of the people I used to work with at my last job now sits right behind me

Here are a few pics of the fireworks set off at our lake associaton on the 4th. The show lasted for nearly 45 minutes, and the kids were totally amazed that we were sitting 100 feet away from one of the best fireworks displays I have ever seen.

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I have obtained a new hosting service that seems to be one of the best I’ve encountered. Only time will tell. Anyway, I now have a real photo gallery service up and running on my site. I am using coppermine and you can see my implementation here.

I hope that soon (in the next few days) I will have the gallery completely integrated with this blog using a plugin for wordpress that is available at idahocline.info