Projects
Feb1
I haven’t taken the time to actually sit down and write anything of a personal nature in quite awhile. It’s not because I haven’t wanted to, it is just that writing down the same day-to-day meaningless details gets really old sometimes. As many people already probably know, I am the type of person who always has to have a project that I am currently working on. The winter time really makes it difficult to do so because it severely limits what various options I have available to me (i.e. reduced daylight hours, cold weather, etc). Nonetheless, I keep finding ways to stimulate my brain that never wants to turn itself off.
I’ve continued with my bread-baking that occurs every Saturday and have really enjoyed learning about all the different types of bread that you can create using various pre-ferments, wheat / liquid levels, and forming styles. I can’t say I’m an expert yet, but I am getting really good at judging what minor adjustments need to be made to the dough to it to taste right in the end.
I’ve also been reading quite a lot the past couple of weeks. I got started with one but when I finished it in a couple of days, I felt this desire for more so I just kept looking for books to read. I’ve been good at pacing myself so as to not get really carried away, but if anyone has any good suggestions for me, I’m always looking for something new. As a side note, I’ve decided I should find where the Lehi library is because buying each book can get to be a bit price-prohibitive.
These were all really good books that I quite enjoyed and they were significantly different from each other. I liked A Tree Grows in Brooklyn the most for some reason that I don’t understand, but would recommend any one of these titles to all.
Additionally, I’ve really been getting into my Cisco lab again and building various network configurations. Instead of doing school up in Salt Lake this semester, I bought some video instruction courses for my Cisco certification that I’m currently working on and that has been a huge help in allowing me to understand all of the little details. Plus, I get to see and work with real world production networks at my job so that only makes it that much more exciting for me. I know, I just called it exciting, but is for me.
Other than that, not a whole lot has been going on in my life. (We did just have Stake Conference this weekend and M. Russell Ballard was there and our ward was assigned as ushers). I seem to have found a good rhythm that I’ve been able to stick with and keep things fairly exciting.
PS – Any suggestions for what my next project should be?
Feb1
While reading my daily dose of Slashdot, I came across the following comment concerning IBM’s layoffs and their offer to hire back ex-employees if they would be willing to move overseas and work for less pay. I’m not sure I agree with it 100% but there are a number of points there that I believe to be true. I’ll include the comment here for your reading pleasure:
Our culture has put such a premium on the price of goods, at the expense of quality, that it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone when (like all other resources), labor also finds itself subjugated to this rule. You are now on the dollar menu, Citizen. Ah, but let us rail against our evil corporate overlords instead–it’s so much easier to blame anyone but ourselves for this. Labor is dead in this country. You’ve got “at will” employment, anti-union legislation, and did you know we are the only industrialized country on the planet without a Labor party? Our entire culture has been split up and sold off piece by piece thanks to “intellectual property”. You don’t own your car, your home, or anything that costs more than about $5,000 these days, stuck paying student loans for the next thirty years, with debt-collection law changes now on the books that make starting over an impossible proposition. We call ourselves a “capitalist” society where the individual has the power and the choice, but tell me dear reader, when was the last time you bought something that didn’t come with a contract or a legal document stating what you could and could not do? Want to watch a movie? Read the FBI warning. Use a computer? Read the End User Licensing Agreement. Drive a car? You’ll need insurance and a car loan for that. Live in a house? An apartment? Sign here please. You can’t even enter a building without “giving consent to search”, no cameras or recording devices please (except for us, see the black globes?). Freedom? Where, pray tell, is your freedom?
One Nation, Under Contract. Please sign on the dotted line.
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