Monthly Archives: November 2005

Wow! a new career

Some spam entertains me so. Really, I’m so excited about my new career options!

You have been chosen for enrolment in the Career Alteration Program (CAP)

You have the choice of three new professions which are currently hiring. You will have qualifications within 2 weeks for automatic acceptance.

1) Technical Power Engineer Management. Salary starts at $89,000 annually.

2) Trade Commercial Consultant. Salary starts at $74,000 annually.

3) Labor Manufacture Production Officer. Salary starts at $102,000 annually.

Please contact us immediatly in order to receive your certificates to start in one of these careers.



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Time for bed already?

We are getting into the really awful winter days when it is pitch black by 5pm. Since I work out of my house and do not have patterns of 8-5 or whatever to follow, this always takes adjusting. I tend to work until it gets dark and then think about dinner. In the summer, this makes for some unhappy campers in my house – hungry dogs, cats and husbands start whining around 8pm if I’m heads down (or worse yet, they decide to do the cooking – burritos are okay, but Kraft Mac & Cheese does not float my boat.). In the winter, I start thinking about dinner at 5 and have a difficult time sitting still in front of my computer and continuing to work. (So there’s always the blog to procrastinate with.) I have never been a “winter blues” type of person, but I do need to think about shifting my schedule so that I spend some time outdoors during the day while it’s light out.

I know that Don Kiely, who lives in Alaska and has much more drastic daylight patterns, tells me that folks up there really make the most of daylight. Play by day and work by night. Now if only I can get my clients to shift to that schedule too and not expect me to be here from 9-5 (or more like 7am – 11pm).

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Vermont development firm gets thumbs up from Microsoft.

This is from the site of one of the largest software consulting shops in Vermont, Competitive Computing, aka “C2”. I believe they may also be the only Gold Partner in Vermont (but I could be wrong).

C2 wins Microsoft partner award!
Microsoft has awarded Competitive Computing with its “Microsoft New England Quarterly Area Partner Award” for exceptional performance. Carolyn Edwards, President and CEO of Competitive Computing, received the award at a special luncheon at Microsoft’s New England Executive Briefing Center on October 20, 2005.



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Hooters coming to Burlington

Bah humbug. I’m sure it will be packed though and there’s lots of nice college students who will be happy for the waitressing jobs I’m sure. Don’t expect any Vermont.NET user group meetings there anytime soon. Though I suppose if I could get casey to come to Vermont, we could go for burgers there.

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