Tomorrow will end my first week of work at my new job. Things have been going good and the people are nice. I don’t feel like an outsider like I have at other jobs. I’ve finished up one project and have started another.

It feels soooooo good to be working with php again. For the past year, (at the 2 contract jobs I had) I was working strictly […]

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Tomorrow will be 2 months since my last day of work on my last contract job (the one that the company ended early [for financial reasons]). As I mentioned a few days ago, there haven’t been all that many opportunities around the Fargo area … at least not opportunities that have peaked my interest. A couple of hours after I posted that entry I received an email from […]

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Some time during junior high and high school (I believe it was when I was in the 7th grade) I made a choice to pursue a career in weather. I honestly don’t remember what spawned that choice. It might have been a family trip to southern Minnesota where we were chased by tornadoes almost the entire way down. I remember tornado sirens going off as we would pass through […]

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On August 14, I entered the land of the unemployed yet again. This damn economic situation has really thrown me for a loop. I lost my job in October 2008 due to budget cuts at the company (they sell truck accessories and such, and with truck sales down, their sales were down too). I worked as a contract web developer from December 2008 through March 2009 (it was a […]

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… at my new job. Well, it was only 3 days, but So far so good. And I like it. It’s a small office, I think there are 9 of us total, including me (the IT department is only 3, including me). The company has offices in other locations, so it’s not a small company.

I’ve even gotten to do actual work already. […]

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