This is a long overdue update...
The last year for me was a dodgy one at best. Fortunately things look like they are getting better and better as I go forward into 2006. Don't get me wrong, there were some really great times in '05 but for the most part it just blew personally. Thank goodness for great friends is all I have to say about that.
Tomorrow I start a new job. I left the old one of my own accord. Just like 2005, the people I was working for sucked. I was the GM of a custom hardware/contractor supply company based out of Miami. My bosses had no clue about their own company or the value of good employees. So I am on to bigger and better things. As of tomorrow morning at 8:30am I am the new IT Business Analyst for a HUGE company that I used to work for. I got a call from the CIO of this corporation at a very opportune moment after having an earful from the retarded company president I was working for. The CIO was kinda feeling me out on my interest in a position that my name was mentioned for. Mind you, I left this company over a year ago. It's nice to know that you are remembered like that. :o) Three weeks later and they have made me an offer that I would be an idiot to refuse.
My new position wil entail lots of travel throughout the US and Canada. Basically this company is converting all of their 59 facilities over to a software package that I am familiar with as a manager. I will be travelling to each site as they are converted and working with their management team analyzing their current management processes and then showing them how to use the new system to improve the way they work. The project will last me the next two years atleast. It'll be a challenge, but one that is well worth the end reward. I'll pretty much be able to go anywhere in the company when the conversion is done if I do a great job of it. No worries.
Most don't know it, but my divorce from Melissa was finalized after waiting about a year or so. I won't say bad things. People change and move on. We were going in different directions I guess. C'est la vie. I miss the intimacy of having someone to be close to. I am not talking about sex, which is great and all, but the little quiet moments...inside jokes...hearing someone breathe in the darkness lying next to you at night...the twinkle in their eye when they laugh at your stupid jokes...holding hands...kissing...warm breath on your neck...damn.
So once again every other aspect in my life is just peachy except for the whole significant other thing. It'll work itself out I know. I am just trying to focus on the rest of my life now and not trying to look so hard.
In other news I have been going back to the gym for a couple of months now and I am liking the results, alot. My old workout partner informed me that I needed to get back to it in his oh so subtle way...LOL So I am back hitting the iron once again. I do about 30-45 mins of cardio (treadmill or bike) and then 45min-1 hour of weights. My clothes were already starting to loosen up before I started. Now it's even better and I am seeing and feeling the results. It's cool. I realize that thanks to my ancestors being the sturdy Germanic Celts and Scottish Highlanders that they were will never allow me to be a small guy, but I am cool with that. Eat better, live better, live longer. I figure if I want to have a few little ones running around one of these days I better take better care of myself to see them grow up happy.
Well...that's the update for now. Thanks for sticking it out and reading it. LOL Thanks for being a friend if you were one and if you weren't one maybe next time...
have fun folks.
The last year for me was a dodgy one at best. Fortunately things look like they are getting better and better as I go forward into 2006. Don't get me wrong, there were some really great times in '05 but for the most part it just blew personally. Thank goodness for great friends is all I have to say about that.
Tomorrow I start a new job. I left the old one of my own accord. Just like 2005, the people I was working for sucked. I was the GM of a custom hardware/contractor supply company based out of Miami. My bosses had no clue about their own company or the value of good employees. So I am on to bigger and better things. As of tomorrow morning at 8:30am I am the new IT Business Analyst for a HUGE company that I used to work for. I got a call from the CIO of this corporation at a very opportune moment after having an earful from the retarded company president I was working for. The CIO was kinda feeling me out on my interest in a position that my name was mentioned for. Mind you, I left this company over a year ago. It's nice to know that you are remembered like that. :o) Three weeks later and they have made me an offer that I would be an idiot to refuse.
My new position wil entail lots of travel throughout the US and Canada. Basically this company is converting all of their 59 facilities over to a software package that I am familiar with as a manager. I will be travelling to each site as they are converted and working with their management team analyzing their current management processes and then showing them how to use the new system to improve the way they work. The project will last me the next two years atleast. It'll be a challenge, but one that is well worth the end reward. I'll pretty much be able to go anywhere in the company when the conversion is done if I do a great job of it. No worries.
Most don't know it, but my divorce from Melissa was finalized after waiting about a year or so. I won't say bad things. People change and move on. We were going in different directions I guess. C'est la vie. I miss the intimacy of having someone to be close to. I am not talking about sex, which is great and all, but the little quiet moments...inside jokes...hearing someone breathe in the darkness lying next to you at night...the twinkle in their eye when they laugh at your stupid jokes...holding hands...kissing...warm breath on your neck...damn.
So once again every other aspect in my life is just peachy except for the whole significant other thing. It'll work itself out I know. I am just trying to focus on the rest of my life now and not trying to look so hard.
In other news I have been going back to the gym for a couple of months now and I am liking the results, alot. My old workout partner informed me that I needed to get back to it in his oh so subtle way...LOL So I am back hitting the iron once again. I do about 30-45 mins of cardio (treadmill or bike) and then 45min-1 hour of weights. My clothes were already starting to loosen up before I started. Now it's even better and I am seeing and feeling the results. It's cool. I realize that thanks to my ancestors being the sturdy Germanic Celts and Scottish Highlanders that they were will never allow me to be a small guy, but I am cool with that. Eat better, live better, live longer. I figure if I want to have a few little ones running around one of these days I better take better care of myself to see them grow up happy.
Well...that's the update for now. Thanks for sticking it out and reading it. LOL Thanks for being a friend if you were one and if you weren't one maybe next time...
have fun folks.
_pauly_:
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