5 Things
November 19th, 2008
Well, even though I kind of forgot to carry on the last meme I was tagged with (sorry, Shalini!), I will go ahead and make my way through here. The same disclaimer Epicanis supplied when he tagged me applies here.
Five Things I was doing 10 years ago
- Attending my sophomore year in high school
- This time of the year was district band season, so I was making the district honor band and actually practicing my euphonium.
- Joining the Cross Country team.
- Preparing for my drivers license examination
- Working on Driftwood (my one time pad encryption program written in QBasic – How embarrassing!)
5 Things on my “To do” list today
- Setup a meeting to get some data automatically fed into my system (done)
- Have dinner with my friend Tara
- Purchase sandwich bags at the store
- Check my ongoing Chlorophyll experiment to see where I’m at there.
- Check out an episode or two of this seasons’ Big Bang Theory.
5 Snacks I love
- Cheese and Crackers
- Popsicles (the sugar free ones taste better)
- No-bake cookies
- Sunflower seeds
- PB & J
5 Things I would do if I was a millionare
- Build a house with crazy home automation (and all those other goodies like a home lab, recording studio, two stories library, hidden rooms / passageways, observatory etc.)
- Get my souped up Mac Pro
- Visit New Zealand
- Quit work and get my doctorate.
- Purchase a Dodge Viper
5 Places I’ve Lived
- Osage City, KS
- Bennett Springs, MO
- Lebanon, MO
- Kansas City, MO
- Butler, MO
Hmm, that one makes me sad…
5 Jobs I’ve had
- Insulation Installer – I put the fiberglass insulation into private homes.
- Sheetrock Grunt – Yeah, carrying sheetrock from the lumberyard to the job site. While it was on the truck, all was good. Other than that… not so much.
- Work Study at the SOE – From my first day on campus here at UMKC, I’ve working in the same department.
- Web Developer – This was a shitty job and turned me off to ever developing for other people ever again. I still do it anyway.
- Audio / Visual Tech – My Current position. My actual job isn’t any like the title.
People I’ll tag. This means you have to do this same thing:
Almost entirely places in Muzzurah? Well, on the bright side, at least it wasn’t all the SAME place. To me, someone saying “I’ve lived here all my life” becomes increasingly saddening as the speaker gets older (doubly so when they say it like they’re proud of it…)…
Now that you mention it, New Zealand should be on my list, too – along with numerous other places.
And as far as any kind of software development – they say it’s like sex. “One mistake and you end up supporting it for the rest of your life”…
You nailed it on the software development. I work at a Uni, and keep seeing all these way I can ‘make things better.’ Of course, we can just throw in a web app, and we’re going to be *so* much more efficient. Unfortunately, this is not the case, because now I spend all my time developing apps for which nobody uses, but everybody complains about.
I really prefer just writing apps for myself, I think.