Ramblings, Incoherent Thought and Family

Well...for those who haven't been keeping up on my facebook, twitter, internal monologues or looking to the sky for my smoke signals...it's finally happened. After four years of being a hermit and working out of the home...I've gotten a different job. Starting in mid-October...I go back to an office working as a Systems Administrator for a company called iCardiac (and yes...they did do the little i and capital letter...). It was a hard choice to make for me. I've gotten kind of used to working from home. Getting up at 7:45 every day, wearing shorts, and a t-shirt in the winter and a t-shirt and speedos in the summer...mid afternoon naps (take that 5-hour energy with your '2:30 feeling'...I found the PERFECT beatdown for it), and sneaking off for lunches. That all will end and while I won't have to dress SUPER business casual (I mean one of the guys I'll be working with WAS wearing a Thundercats T-Shirt during the interview) I will have to dress better th...

I know. I'm hopping on the bandwagon. It's hard not to. September 11, 2001 changed our entire way of life. Even though we've 'lost' some of what we learned that day...its ripple effects can still be felt in today's society all around us. From when we travel, to how we interact with members of arab races, to how we feel about the media (and coverage of tragedies) and to our level of trust in our leadership. September 11, 2001 has resonated with all of us since that day and nothing has been the same...so writing about it is...to me at least, a no-brainer. I can remember every part of that day. I was working in Building 111 at Xerox in Webster. I was a Systems Administrator for a development environment. I hated the gig. I didn't like the people I was working with too much and felt a bit 'in over my head'...but had gone 'all in' on the job and with my wedding coming up in 6 months...I knew I had to make a go of it. I didn't fit in the job......