For those of you wondering (if any) of why I havent been around much, let me explain.
1. When I left for California in the beginning of October, we (my wife and I) were HEAVILY looking for a house so we could be in by Christmas for our 3 children.
2. The day after I got back from California, we found the house and entered into contract. Thus, the fun begins.
3. A few days after I got back from California, all hell broke loose. My 8 year old daughter ended up in the hospital with seizures that to this day are unexplained. However, they arent hapening any more and thats the best case scenario. Today though, she is running a temp of 102 and fighting off a viruse that everybody else in the house has either had or is coming down with. There is a big flu outbreak in this area.
4. The pissing match between the seller and I has begun. Not bad at all, but, there were some things I requested be done to the house BEFORE we close. Needless to say, most of the work is now done.
5. I 'should' have my letter of commitment for closing on Monday. SHOULD! Everyone tells me that 'something' will pop up so I guess Monday will tell.
6. We currently live with our in-laws and pay half the bills. Us moving seems to be causing some friction.... I think they like us being here.... I dont know. But either way, they are a HUGE Italian family and have more parties than you can handle. This is creating issues for Thanksgiving. We are currently packing all our poop, the house is a mess and we dont know if we can be out in time for their Thanksgiving get-together (every year it turns out 60 people). Just more chaos.....
7. Work has been jam packed full of projects both big and small since my return from California. I'm currently implementing a true rolling transactional database accross a WAN between here and Atlanta (almost a Terrabyte of data to boot!), merging with our corporate AD Forest (yes, we did it before our parent office which pissed a bunch of people off!), and in the middle of these 2 big projects are TONS of daily small ones. To include a SAS70 report assessment by Deloite and Touche (one of the Big 4 for security audits). But hey, If I can pass a Big 4 security audit and have a SAS70 in my posession, I can tell the biggest of the big that they need not even step foot through my doors. Pretty cool eh?
I still visit the site daily, in fact many times per day. I read everything but just havent been posting like normal. For those of you who miss me, well, I miss you too! And for those of you who dont know me, hopefully you will get to soon. I miss being as involved as I usually am and expect to be back to normal by the 1st of the year. Until then, just know that I'm still around but not as active as usual.
Ok, Group Hug!
lol
-Chris
1. When I left for California in the beginning of October, we (my wife and I) were HEAVILY looking for a house so we could be in by Christmas for our 3 children.
2. The day after I got back from California, we found the house and entered into contract. Thus, the fun begins.
3. A few days after I got back from California, all hell broke loose. My 8 year old daughter ended up in the hospital with seizures that to this day are unexplained. However, they arent hapening any more and thats the best case scenario. Today though, she is running a temp of 102 and fighting off a viruse that everybody else in the house has either had or is coming down with. There is a big flu outbreak in this area.
4. The pissing match between the seller and I has begun. Not bad at all, but, there were some things I requested be done to the house BEFORE we close. Needless to say, most of the work is now done.
5. I 'should' have my letter of commitment for closing on Monday. SHOULD! Everyone tells me that 'something' will pop up so I guess Monday will tell.
6. We currently live with our in-laws and pay half the bills. Us moving seems to be causing some friction.... I think they like us being here.... I dont know. But either way, they are a HUGE Italian family and have more parties than you can handle. This is creating issues for Thanksgiving. We are currently packing all our poop, the house is a mess and we dont know if we can be out in time for their Thanksgiving get-together (every year it turns out 60 people). Just more chaos.....
7. Work has been jam packed full of projects both big and small since my return from California. I'm currently implementing a true rolling transactional database accross a WAN between here and Atlanta (almost a Terrabyte of data to boot!), merging with our corporate AD Forest (yes, we did it before our parent office which pissed a bunch of people off!), and in the middle of these 2 big projects are TONS of daily small ones. To include a SAS70 report assessment by Deloite and Touche (one of the Big 4 for security audits). But hey, If I can pass a Big 4 security audit and have a SAS70 in my posession, I can tell the biggest of the big that they need not even step foot through my doors. Pretty cool eh?
I still visit the site daily, in fact many times per day. I read everything but just havent been posting like normal. For those of you who miss me, well, I miss you too! And for those of you who dont know me, hopefully you will get to soon. I miss being as involved as I usually am and expect to be back to normal by the 1st of the year. Until then, just know that I'm still around but not as active as usual.
Ok, Group Hug!
lol
-Chris
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