The three of us went down to West Palm for the weekend after Christmas. It was a good South Florida winter, with temps in the seventies and clear sunny days. We stayed with Dad and his fiancee Chris. Kendall took her time opening presents.

The next day we went hiking in the Loxahatchee wildlife refuge.

Those bumps in the water behind Kathryn aren’t just floating muck. Here’s a closer look.

Getting Kathryn to turn her back on a carnivorous dinosaur, even for a few seconds, is no easy trick.

We capped it off with breakfast at my sister’s place, decorating gingerbread houses with the nieces.

Good trip.

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Only in that it’s already 62 degrees at 7:30 AM.

Merry Christmas!

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I start January 7th.

http://www.actsolution.net/

I’m a geek again.

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I got a call from the owner. He’ll get me an offer letter on Monday or Tuesday. If we agree on terms, I start the first week in January.

I will be celebrating today by not job hunting all day.

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Second interview went fine. Now waiting to see if they make an offer.

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I had a positive interview this morning, and I have a callback tomorrow. Prayers, thoughts, and good vibes happily accepted.

Unsurprisingly, this lead was from a networking contact, not a job board or headhunter. Networking feels like a hassle until you really need it!

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The above pictures illustrate not necessarily bad timing on the part of the photographer, but that my daughter has LEARNED TO CLOSE HER EYES before the flash goes off. I am thankful for digital cameras tht show me that I need to try that shot again. And again. And again.

In other news, Uncle Bud thinks that my father is rigging things on the ceiling of the garage to fall on his car. But that is for another post.

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I had a gig this morning. It ended up only billing two hours, but it was better than nothing. I had forgotten how customers think.

“You haven’t made any changes to the network or the server in the last few weeks? No software installed, no configuration changes, nothing like that?”
“No, nothing. We never mess with that stuff.”
“And the problem just started for no reason on Friday? You can’t connect that to anything that anyone did that changed the environment at all?”
“Yeah, it just started out of nowhere, it hasn’t worked since Friday morning.”
“It looks like Windows Firewall is enabled and is blocking the ports to your database server. Has that always been installed?”
“No, we did that last week. Installed the firewall, I mean.”
“When, exactly?”
“Thursday night.”

I see. Well, it’s fixed.

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