I had an interview that had me nervous, in a good way, when I woke up yesterday.  I try really hard to have my resume reflect all that I have done.  Most of the time I know that I am one of the most technically adept people in a given room.  Though I am pretty humble and not cockey about it.  Yesterday I had an interview with a group of people that contribute to a really cool Sys Admin tool called Puppet written in Ruby.  Some times I can kick my self for missing projects like this.  Anyhow, this group is on top of their game and really know their stuff.  The job is one that I can totally do and grow with.

After the interview I was off to the old hood to visit RevPhill.  It was great catching up with him and he gave me a piece of great advice to answer friends questions about my past year… make a Zine and carry copies with you.  This is brilliant.

Then it was off to get some post interview thank you cards… but I just could not send some lame piece of paper that essentially is a reminder of my name… I would not want to be treated like that.  So for the same price of cards I found a cool tattoo book and sent that instead.  Which was had a cool serendipitous outcome as at the Main postoffice I ran into a campaign volunteer who was kind enough last year to drive me home after I had about 5 too many beers.  I love how Portland is small like that.

So today my goal is to clean the kitchen (which needs it bad), then fill the green yard debris bin and get the trash to the curb… my rewards shale be outline my Zine, write a tiny rails App and install play with puppet on some VM’s… I guess I could update wordpress as well.  I am also digging this Sci-Fi book that I got for $1.00 from Powells called Salt.

UPDATE: Amazing how much time CLEAR tech support takes trying to get a static IP.

Categories: Puppet, Ruby, SciFi
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About ever year I remember I have a domain name.  The reminder is in the from someone wanting me to change my registrar.

It has been a non-stop first part of this year, which means that I am not much for updating this blog.  Well that and I was honestly surprised at the number of people who were attacking me this time last year. Now that the politically motivated attacks are stopped I guess it is safe for life to get back to normal.

Well, I am still in Portland and thanks to my good friend Steve, I have been learning Ruby.  Why I did not do this years ago I do not know why.  This language is as fun (and less annoying) than PERL.

Categories: Ruby
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