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My team lead here has pointed out that I'm not being as 'nice' in my communications as I would have been a year ago. That I seem a little 'wear-and-teared' or burned out. I have to admit that he has a point. *sigh* I have to start working a little harder at being nice to the stupid people....

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So I just sent links to my manager for a couple of $4000 to $5000 multi-day Cisco CCNA boot camps. Can't hurt to aim high, right?

I loved my Cisco class I had back at New Horizons, so I figure that's a good sign that I may want to go in that direction.

(And if I get my CCNA cert, I am so looking for other work before things get even weirder around here....)

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And, since I've been reminded by kellicjtiger's post, of the radio news I was listening to on the way here this morning....

Is it wrong that, now that I've heard that Barack Obama served on a board with someone who was a member of The Weather Underground, I'm actually that much more in favor of him?

I know, violence is not the way to solve most social issues. Not unless it's an effort of last resort. But I'm excited that Obama is willing to put effort into something that someone like Bill Ayers thinks is important enough to put effort into. I think that's a definite point in his favor, even if they really barely know each other, which is probably the case.

There's a part of me that really relates to the sort of passion that the radical left of the '60s had. I watched a documentary about the weather undergound, and, if I'm not mistaken, the person in question was one of those interviewed. He seemed like a pretty together guy who's done a lot of serious rethinking of his ideas and who'd come to the conclusion that violence was the wrong way to approach things, but still hadn't lost his prinicples. I liked him a lot.

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Another couple of photos of the moment before I go to bed.

These are from the first set of pictures that I took after getting my shiny new camera in the mail last summer. It's an abandoned barn near where I work. I spent an entire lunch hour over there one day, walking around and through the barn, looking down at the cellar and up into the second floor windows, and lying down in the sweet green grass looking for interesting angles. It's kind of neat to think how much I've learned about my camera since then.

Anyway, here you go.



The first one reminds me so much of a waterfall. That was the first thing I thought of when I saw the roof of the barn. I knew I had to get a picture of it.

Unfortunately, there are now big no trespassing signs all around it, as there are with the other old farm buildings in the area. The ones that are still standing that is. A lot of development is happening here and many, even most, of the old structures that were still standing when I started working in the area a few years ago are now razed to the foundations. It makes me a little sad. I wish I'd had the chance to get more pictures of them. Most of them have always had no trespassing signs up, and the one time I decided to take pictures anyway, serinthia and I had to beat a hasty retreat after a car drove up to the area, seemed to pointedly examine us, and then drove away; I decided pictures weren't worth the risk of a trespassing charge after that.