My Twitter Updates
August 30, 2009
Got up this morning and walked the trail again. My stomach is really sore from yesterday, and I didn't even do that much! I know it is going to be a long haul here back to a point where I can kick ass and take names again. I won't let anything stand in my way this time around; and that includes myself. In the final analysis I am my own worst enemy. Have pasta boiling. I am on a serious diet that revolves around substance and time. Eating 5-6 times a day is something I need to get used to, but like I said, I will do what ever it takes to make this project a success.
August 29, 2009
The quest to get ripped again, or as ripped as is possible at this stage of my life has begin in earnest. I went for a four mile walk yesterday. I found this nice little back trail here in town that snakes along the woods along a river. The sun was shining and it was warm. Days like this are numbered so I am glad I took advantage of it. I am on a strict, calculated diet. I have an exercise regimen to follow. I have all the vitamins, minerals, and protein powders I need to fuel my transformation from slightly pudgy old dude to a younger, leaner version of old dude. This Iron Gym contraption will aid me in the mission. I know this; I am feeling it this morning. I am stiff. I have been saying for years I needed to get back into my physical fitness routine, and at this stage, I have almost neglected it to a point of no return. I am giving myself till October 1st to see genuine results. I made a before video and uploaded it to YouTube. On October 1st I will make the after video. My PowerShell education is proceeding. The key to this mastership is diligence, just like anything else. There was a huge amount of supporting knowledge that was necessary to digest in order to appreciate just what this PowerShell tool is going to administer and why. I have a firm grasp on the what and the why now, so I feel better grounded. The next couple months will be productive in my accumulation of skill and knowledge using Powershell. I have a great deal of information to pour over, but I will make the time. By the end of 2009, I will have a solid foundation to build on. I won't be ready to step in to the IT workforce, but I will be able to accelerate by mastery and skill level with greater speed towards this end.
August 27, 2009
Bought the IRON GYM Total Upper Body Workout Bar. I think this is the first time I have bought something that I had seen advertised on TV. The store I work at carries these infomercial products from time to time, and I saw the IRON GYM on the shelve. Surprisingly, this device actually works as reported. It does transform your doorway into a gym that you can do pull-ups, chin-ups, abdominal crunches, etc. When used on the floor, you can do dips, sit-ups, and push ups. I think the accessory items you can purchase are fluff, but the core product is good. As a mentioned in a tweet, I have accumulated an extra layer of fat around my gut, and I will get rid of it. This has happened once before, and I was successful in burning it off. A certain amount of extra flab accumulating on my frame at this stage of my life is probably normal, but I refuse to roll over and let Old Man Time beat on me without putting up a fight.
August 19, 2009
Cooking up a plate of spaghetti with lots of hamburger in the sauce. Should be a nice meal. Been quite lately. Life seems to be in a holding pattern for the time being. I'm not digging into cyberspace looking for documents or doing any serious research. I have all the materials I really need to accomplish just about everything I hope to in this lifetime. I am sure as my IT skills advance I will be reading other technology related material. But for the moment I am set. I also have all the martial arts books I need for the time being. I have all the occult materials also. There is no need to look further. What is needed is to assimilate the knowledge, incorporate it into my life, and make it my own. I have wandered a little in my PowerShell study. I have been looking at the enterprises that the scripting language manipulates, and I am not ready to dive into this yet. I need to focus purely on PowerShell, the cmdlets, and the scripting language. I have to master this knowledge first before I can begin to apply it to the areas of information manipulation.
I do not see the Obama Administration doing much of anything. Jobs are not being created. In fact, more jobs are being shed right here in Wisconsin as I type. The city of Janesville has been decimated. When GM pulled out, it was the beginning of the end for the community and the city. The present administration can spin the news all they want; not too many people in the street are buying what they are trying to sell.
August 13, 2009
Went to WalMart and bought some $5 DVD's. Watched ONG-BAK The Thai Warrior. Good film. Had some very good Muay Thai action. I haven't studied today. I think I was getting burned out. I can't let this stop me from my mission; Internet Technology workforce by 2010. The economy isn't recovering despite the propaganda the news media is trying to make us all believe. The figures speak for themselves. I may not find an IT position come 2010, but I will find one as soon as possible and as soon as I have acquire the skill. The weather is nice. It isn't too hot or humid, and the sun is shining. This summer has been the summer that wasn't. I fear the crops here in Wisconsin are going to suffer low yields, and that would be another nail in the coffin. It hasn't been nailed shut completely, but the state is hurting. I have the day off and I need to enjoy it. I report back to the store at 4 PM tomorrow. I can put a good day in tomorrow hitting the books.
August 11, 2009
Sitting here over at the XP machine. I had to balance my checkbook, and the Microsoft Office 2000 Excel program works better over on this machine; so does the Word program. I know Windows 7 is out and has gotten good reviews thus far but I do not intend to switch over to it. I will be happy using my XP. As far as the other computer I use to do all my Internet stuff on, I will use the Windows Vista Home Premium Edition as long as possible, even though I am not totally happy with it. I do most of my Powershell study on that OS because of the Internet connection. No reason to upset the apple cart. As they say, if it isn't broken don't try and fix it. Saving material on a USB flash drive and transferring it back and forth between machine to machine may seem foolish, but it works.
I have been using my zapper everyday and it seems to be doing something. I can't say my health has improved dramatically but I am healthy and seem to be staying that way. It has come down to a necessity to start exercising my lungs on a daily basis. It isn't just something that would be nice, or something I really should be doing. If I don't start doing it now, I am not going to live out the full potential that my health has offered me. My lungs are going to shut down in my sleep. This is something that could happen any time, so I have to take this seriously. Working toward a future career opportunity in the Information Technology workforce is a noble goal, but if my health goes to hell, it won't matter. My physical health has to a pillar of my spiritual foundation. Without this foundation I am just spinning my wheels.
I turned 54 yesterday. Age never meant anything to me, and it still doesn't but I am feeling the effects of old
man time beating on me. I have to fight back as long as I can. I know in the end I will succumb to old age, but
I decide the quality of life I experience during the interim. I did receive a nice birthday present in the mail
yesterday. The State of Wisconsin finally got around to issuing my request to distribute the $2100 I had in the
fund. I had till age 55 to decide wether or not to take the lump sum payment. After age 55 my option to take it
was off the table. I did loose the matching fund contribution. I look at it this way. The State is in big trouble
financially. If it wasn't they would not have taken five months to issue this check. If I didn't take this money
now, I would have received monthly payments. I do not think these payments would amount to much. A lot of
things can and will happen between now and 2017. The 20% tax withholding is a joke, but $1746.83 goes a
long way right now given the state of the economy. It looks like I will have to work till the day I drop dead
anyway. I need this cushion to fall back on now. As you can see, I added my Twitter updates to the page. Thought I would try something new here.
August 9, 2009
Have realized that learning how to navigate the PowerShell Command Line Interface (CLI) is only half the battle. It is important to know your cmdlets inside out. It is important to learn the grammar of the scripting language. This is your foundation. PowerShell is a tool. It isn't any different than the knife is to a wood cutter. After you have acquired the skill necessary to guide the knife, what do you do with it? Do you carve horses? Do you carve busts? PowerShell is the same. Once you know how to operate it, how are you going to apply it? Are you going to be working with Windows 2008 Server? How about IIS 7.0? Maybe your fancy is WMI? Or perhaps Active Directory? Once I do get this scripting program/language nailed, I have to aquire expertise in an area of application. That means I have to learn as much as I can about Windows Server 2008 and the components that comprise it. I have to understand the framework that PowerShell is built on; .NET I have to believe in my ability to accomplish these tasks. I have decided in order to reach my goal of getting my foot into the door of the IT workforce in 2010, I need to study 100 pages of material a day. I haven't been able to do it up to now, but I am hammering away. Tomorrow is my 54th birthday. To be honest, I am not feeling good about it.
August 6, 2009
The mayor of the Japanese city of Hiroshima has called for the abolition of nuclear weapons, as he marked the 64th anniversary of the US atomic bombing that killed nearly 260000 people. I have noticed that in the past couple years, this news has not been widely reported in the US media. If it has, it has been a short blip on the radar screen. I think the US would just as well forget we ever dropped it, especially with the current political climate. We wag our finger at Iran and North Korea and tell them it is bad to pursue nuclear technology. It's ok to use nuclear power to power your cities, but the temptation to build bombs is too great. It is best to just leave that responsibility to us. We know how to handle it. And when it came to Japan, we nuked them for their own good. We saved millions of Japanese and American lives that would have been lost in an all out ground assault against the Japanese homeland.
Something strange is happening in cyberspace today. Twitter is under a Denial of Service attack (DDoS) and the rest of the WWW is not responsive. I have tried visiting some other sites on Google to read some current news, and the pages are not loading. I have a high speed Internet connection, so pages churning away in a holding pattern is not normal.
August 3, 2009
My employer can cut me to 36 hours a week and unemployment will not cover the difference. According to the charts they figure payments from, I am making too much to qualify for a benefit at this reduction. That's $200 a month I can't recover. Needless to say I am greatly disappointed. I'm getting the shaft. Welcome to the New Financial World Order. My Information Technology education is moving forward. It has been a slow start. I feel like I am going around in circles but in reality I am moving forward. The learning curve is not a straight line. As I learn new concepts, there are other bodies of knowledge to digest to make sense of the concepts. The small bits are layered on larger frameworks. I have narrowed it down as to what it is I need to concentrate on, and it is an enormous body of work! I am giving myself 26 weeks, so I should be able to make that goal. My main motivation remains; I want to create a life I can be happy living. Up to this point I have had glimpses of it, but nothing sustainable. The people I see in the IT industry are happy people. They are creative. They write books. They teach. They travel. They are financially secure. I want these things. I know security and peace of mind come from within. Everything else is illusion. That is all well and good, but even the guru and the mystic have people supporting them. I have no one.
August 2, 2009
I haven't been writing much. It isn't I have grown tired of it. This blog is still my number one refuge from the insanity I have to deal with on a 24 hour basis. If I didn't have Time to Blog! I would be left with an essential outlet to express myself through. I like Twitter. I am using TwitterDeck and that is a nice application to stay on top of what the rest of the Powershell community who use Twitter are doing. I have found excellent resources through this medium. I have all the books and podcasts I need to teach myself everything I need to know to step into an IT position. I am also filing for partial unemployment to cover the hours my employer is cutting from my weekly schedule. It's pennies on the dollar, but it is something. If I saw $30 laying on the ground, would I bend over and pick it up? The answer is yes; that's how I view the checks being sent. I can collect for the next 26 weeks. This is the timeframe I am looking at to upgrade my computer skills. In the meantime, I intend to play hard. It is necessary to make time to pursue my other joys; martial arts and music. I have neglected them and am a lesser man for it.
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