The Coconut Casbah - February 16, 2010

[T3]

AWESOME job, Nota!!!

[notabarbiegirl]

Thank you:

Now we just have to find something fun to do tomorrow with Harley & my munchkins 

[T3]

Have a great time!  Wish I could join ya!

[notabarbiegirl]

  I got my grades in 94 on the last exam. 

This makes my average for Govt. a 95.33 %  an A 

We spent this morning checking off more of the munchkins school lists  why do the schools ask for odd junk, & why do we have to buy scissors every stinking year (the teachers do not always send them back). I will do more of the odd size & odd product search tomorrow 

[Mathsorcerer]

I wouldn't be surprised if school districts didn't find some way of reselling all the leftover supplies at the end of the school year.  Hundreds of pairs of scissors would bring in some cash if sold to metal recyclers.

[Harley Quinn]

Awesome Nota!!!

Mathy, I shared the cupcakes with my little cousins and they LOVED them so thanks!!!

I have presents for the kids, but I had left one of them at home, and couldn't give just one kid a present and not the other, so I'll have to send them to you when I get a chance :-)

[Mathsorcerer]

You are welcome for the cupcakes.  Now I no longer living under a shadow of doom like the Noldor.

[Harley Quinn]

 

[notabarbiegirl]

Perseid meteor shower peaks tomorrow.   

Sounds like a good time for a Picnic dinner.

[T3]

Perseid meteor shower peaks tomorrow.   

Sounds like a good time for a Picnic dinner.

Very nice!!

Wow, this Casbah is from February!

[notabarbiegirl]

Wow, this Casbah is from February!

I opened a window to let it air out a little. 

[notabarbiegirl]

I got the kids info updated with school. The are at a new campus & are officially Ponies.
 They start school 1 week from today. At least we have tax free weekend coming up to finish filling in the clothes & supplies needs. ( that is right need trumps want) Frick & Frack will be practical even if I have to drill it into them. 

[Mathsorcerer]

Our company was finally sold on Tuesday so we are now offically Gentiva even though we still call ourselves Odyssey.  The IT department will be structured at the corporate level, so all IT functions will--at some point--be centralized.  Gentiva corporate headquarters are located in Atlanta so you can guess what that means.

I just got out of a meeting with my boss and his boss and told them that I am definitely not moving to Atlanta at any point.  I might consider Kansas City if there is a college with a PT program there for Noty but that would still put us half a day of driving from our closest relatives and the kids would have to fly to San Marcos for visitations.  From what they were saying and the tones they were using I suspect that Kansas City will, ultimately, not be the final, centralized location for IT.

In short, I just told them that when IT moves to Atlanta they can cash me out.

[Harley Quinn]

Sorry to hear that Mathy.  Hope you find other work before you NEED to find it!

That's a definite advantage to working for myself -- no forced relocation.

[notabarbiegirl]

Our company was finally sold on Tuesday so we are now offically Gentiva even though we still call ourselves Odyssey.  The IT department will be structured at the corporate level, so all IT functions will--at some point--be centralized.  Gentiva corporate headquarters are located in Atlanta so you can guess what that means.

I just got out of a meeting with my boss and his boss and told them that I am definitely not moving to Atlanta at any point.  I might consider Kansas City if there is a college with a PT program there for Noty but that would still put us half a day of driving from our closest relatives and the kids would have to fly to San Marcos for visitations.  From what they were saying and the tones they were using I suspect that Kansas City will, ultimately, not be the final, centralized location for IT.

In short, I just told them that when IT moves to Atlanta they can cash me out.

  !  o.k.  God is in control & we discussed this might happen (breathe)  We will still pray for guidance.
Let me know when they give a time frame or date.  We will be o.k. & I love you   

[Mathsorcerer]

Well, it isn't as bad as all that.  I still have a severance package that is good through next May that would, if taken, effectiely put 4 months' worth of pay in my pocket in one lump sum and I would have job placement assistance, if needed.

Our IT department is in the running to be named one of the top 100 IT departments from all fields as well as the possibility of being the top IT department in the health care field.  That will look good on a resume, I'm certain.

[T3]

Hoping for the best, Mathy.

[Mathsorcerer]

More info from our meeting today.  No, it doesn't really look like we will be moving to Atlanta any time soon since the new company wants to incorporate the patient database program we are using.  This means that our database admins have to meet with their database admins, figure out how to move thier information into our program, then get around to moving the data.  This will take at least 6 months (my best guess) but will probably take longer.

This means that I won't be having to make any real decisions (or look for something else) for at least 6 months.  If I start looking now and get a couple of certifications under my belt I can get a new job with a pay increase by then.  I need to be doing this anyway; this is just extra motivation to do so.

[Nachtrafe]

Yikes, sorry to hear about things going wonky Mathy.  Glad to hear that you still have some time before you have to make any lasting decisions.  It's always better to make decisions without being in a super tight time crunch.  What certs are you planning to get?  I'm working on my A+ and hopefully will be able to test on it soon.    *crosses fingers*

Cloudy says to say hi to everyone.  She's down with a headache tonight otherwise she says she'd post herself.    We're doing ok, but she's having some knee problems.  We saw a specialist the other day and she now officially has 'severe arthritis' in her knee.

Hope all is well with everyone.    Work continues on the relaunch.  It's actually just about done, we just need to add some final details and bells & whistles.

Night all! 

[Mathsorcerer]

I liked the A+ but I need to take one of the updated versions to bring myself up to speed on the latest tech out there; it was more difficult than Network+ but only because of all the memory addresses, CPU types, and IRQs to memorize.  While I was studying for A+, though, I had a weird thought--do techs even use that kind of information any more?  The desktop support group where I work will replace hard drives and such but they don't do anything too "techy".  For that, they just wipe the computer and ship it off to CDW for a replacement.  Weird.

What I want to go for is the CCNA (and I will) but I will probably do Security+; I was originally thinking Linux+ but I just don't see that there will be much use for it, other than specialty projects here and there.  Most likely I will do Project+ and Java+, though.  If I can stack on some programming languauge it will expand my future options greatly.