tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38547432011-07-07T15:07:03.138-07:00iggryLife of a university student (and ex-IT Worker/Islamic School math teacher)iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.comBlogger1021100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-45205320155185085832010-09-07T13:34:00.002-07:002010-09-07T13:49:34.956-07:00Assalamu AlaikumAn annual update now? Alhumdulillah I completed my first year of teaching, and have started my 2nd year now. Life in a small town is completely different than what I am use to, but it is growing on me. Sayang still prefers city life, and misses the museums, parks, etc... Two more years, and then we will see what happens next.This past year and a half, we've moved three times, iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-82879732927649515732009-05-24T22:47:00.002-07:002009-05-24T22:51:17.824-07:00Assalamu Alaikum,A new end and a new beginning. I am electing to discontinue my pursuit of a PhD for now, and looking to teach at a community college. I'm currently on summer break!! WooHoo!!!This last semester took a lot out of me, mentally, physically and spiritually, and right now I am just trying to find a new position, and regrow/recover. InshaAllah I will be able to find a postion in theiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-9119552027252904862008-11-30T14:51:00.002-07:002008-11-30T14:54:06.625-07:00Assalamu AlaikumSo much for good intentions? It is the final week of classes before the semester is over. I am about half done with a 20+ page paper, and still working away. I will write a final later today, and start reading/reviewing for finals. Whee!!~iggryiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-21614371031434256162008-11-03T17:39:00.003-07:002008-11-03T17:56:06.043-07:00Assalamu Alaikum!YAY! I got to present algebras in analysis. A couple of classmates weren't ready, as algebras an abstract jump that caused me headaches the first time. My problem was easy enough, and I worked through the problem step by step to show something was a sigma algebra. Afterward, a couple of people expressed appreciation, since their problem was similar and they were struggling with iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-25350220327102869292008-11-02T15:20:00.004-07:002008-11-02T15:43:05.828-07:00Assalamu Alaikum!!I need to learn how to write again :DI spent the last three years of my life gaining experience and skills in math education. I started a "masters" for 2 years, while adjuncting at another school. (only slightly frowned upon), but since my focus was in so many different directions, I wasn't successful enough. Graduate school requires focus!! So I spent a year adjuncting at iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1120705858531475162005-07-06T19:57:00.000-07:002005-07-06T20:10:58.536-07:00Assalamu AlaikumI need to update my account! InshaAllah I will no longer be an IT worker, as come August my contract will end. I have accepted an assistantship at a local university, so I will return to the life of a struggling university student!! I am so excited for this opportunity and am greatly looking forward to it. It is impossible to describe how much Allah has blessed my life with iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1103692837948266502004-12-21T22:03:00.000-07:002004-12-21T22:36:09.406-07:00Assalamu Alaikum
MashaAllah, It has been such a long time since I posted...
I am still alive, and well. I was happily posting at work, and the following week the Security department had blocked all access to blogspot.com as a porn site! So ended my posting at work again. Sigh.
Alhumdulillah, I am still working for a phone company, for almost 10 months now. I have moved into a more specialized iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1081527517620228142004-04-09T09:18:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:53.805-07:00Assalamu alaikum
Alhumdulilah, it is Friday!!
It has been a long week... I didn't get all my preperation done for class on the weekend, so I was squeezing in time where ever I could find it. It made for a couple of late nights studying the material, so I was sleepy while teaching class. Not a fun experience...
At my day job, a strike has been announced. All the employees will be iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1080925154181694422004-04-02T09:59:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:53.814-07:00Assalamu Alaikum
Alhumdulillah, I will get my poor little car back today with a nice new makeover! No more stinky dodge neon :) Also, my kids got back safely last night, and they had a good time. Class went well, eventhough I snowed a lot of people under, and finally it's FRIDAY!! (need I say more??)
Anyway, some elaboration...
My kids are on spring break, and so they spent 4 days in iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1080140748751991642004-03-24T08:05:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:53.822-07:00Assalamu Alaikum Wr. Wb.
My car is finally in the shop being repaired after the accident. I made the appointment for monday, and they arranged for me to have a rental car. I showed up 5 minutes early, and waited around for almost a half hour but no rental car! So I head to work and call them explaining that I need a rental car or I can't drop my car off. They straighten out the rental car iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1079562267880830732004-03-17T15:24:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:53.831-07:00Assalamu alaikum
Alhumdulillah, we bought a "new" car last saturday. It is actually a used car but it is new to us... Now poor sayang will not be stranded at home while I'm at work. She can take the kids out, go shopping, and all that wonderful stuff. Since I am about an hour away, we decided that it is safer for her to have transportation incase something serious happens, like me having to iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1079047478323234132004-03-11T16:24:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:53.841-07:00Assalamu Alaikum,
YEA, I got trained today in computer applications. I am still on a roller coaster emotionally, and need to sort my life out. I loved teaching at the school so much, and dearly miss my students. I am use to relating to them on a more childish level, which does not go well with a corporate environment. So now, I am finding that I have to grow up, and take work more seriously,iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1079046498895227142004-03-10T15:57:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:53.848-07:00Assalamu Alaikum All
Argh, I was ran over this morning! I was driving to work during rush hour, and had to come to a complete stop in the highway. Unfortunately, the guy behind me didn't stop fast enough. He hit me, and pushed me into the car in front of me also, so my poor car is damaged in both front and back. Alhumdulillah, no one was hurt, and even more so, that this occurred after I iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1078512411332106912004-03-05T11:46:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:53.881-07:00Assalamu alaikum All
It is time for me to update, and re-open this blog... Alas, I am out of teaching, and back into IT. As much as I resisted having to change back, finances were too tight to live on a private school salary. I really miss my students, and "having" to go to prayer at the masjid as part of my scheduled day...
Now, I am a software tester for a big company. I am in "trainingiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1067544993726110102003-10-30T13:16:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:53.928-07:00Assalamu alaikum
Ramadan Kareem
Alhumdulillah! I started with a cold, and am now down to just being my usual fall congested self, and I am over my lack of coffee headache!
Well, 10 minutes later, and I am back typing. I went to deliver something, and a 6th grader came out of a bathroom followed by a preschool boy, and I was told that he looked under the door at her while she was using the iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1066855706381360202003-10-22T13:48:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:53.989-07:00Wish us a peaceful night, Firdaus got shots today (4 month immunizations) so hopefully he will not be too grumpy tonight :-(.
Hope everyone has a peaceful evening!
iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1066855573149426812003-10-22T13:46:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:53.997-07:00Assalamu alaikum
Eek, Grades are due. Alhumdulillah, I have lived through the first quarter of my teaching life. I have had to become a mean teacher to some of the grades and it has disheartened me... I don't like to yell and be mean but if someone keeps disturbing the class, then I have to. If I kick two people out, then I have a wonderful class, and could get a lot accomplished. However, iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1064952203956812032003-09-30T13:03:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:54.004-07:00Assalamu alaikum
Wow, it has been a week since I last posted! I had another busy week, and weekend... Last weekend, on Saturday I went to a Malay gathering. Alhumdulillah, it was great to see everyone again, and the food was wonderful! Sunday the school had a Bazaar and the teachers worked in shifts at the various booths. My shift was to give everyone breaks, and make sure it was going iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1064350084561477352003-09-23T13:48:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:54.466-07:00Assalamu alaikum!
Bleh, I didn't get any work done this weekend. Actually it is my own fault, but alas, now I have regrets. A friend visited on Saturday, and I rented Bullet Proof Monk, so it was either relaxing with the family, or cleaning house, except for the eating part. Sayang made lasgania (sp??) for all of us, and they brought some delicious white chocolate chip cookies :-).
Sunday,iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1064000483560447592003-09-19T12:41:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:54.692-07:00Assalamu Alaikum!
Jummah Mubarak
I was late for Friday Prayer :-(. All I have to do is walk upstairs, but alas, my other responsibility is to chase the boys upstairs, make sure they behave while taking Wudu, and be an over-all hall monitor. Then I heard the Iman start, and was thinking "wait wait, I still need to talk Wudu also" (Teachers can not use the student bathrooms for our own safety iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1063825212928235122003-09-17T11:50:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:55.049-07:00Assalamu alaikum All!
Eek! Yesterday, I was helping monitor a computer lab presentation to 1st graders. One student kept causing trouble, so he ended up in the office with his head down on the table (time out). The little ***** fell asleep and wet himself!! One of the other office workers cleaned up the rest of the mess :-( Oh, I wasn't thinking of a bad word, but I couldn't think of an iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1063742555864553002003-09-16T12:48:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:55.179-07:00Assalamu alaikum All
Wow, Alhumdulillah! I have survived three weeks of teaching and so far I love it! We had our first excitement this year. The school is in the progress of building a new addition, which will more than double our space! After labor day, we had more rain than usual and with the water being rerouted because of the building effort, it came into the school. By lunch time, we iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1062100229412125202003-08-28T12:50:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:55.281-07:00Assalamu Alaikum!
Alhumdulillah!!!
I have survived my first week teaching and am getting organized, but I have too much homework! The staff here is delightful, and most of the students are also wonderful. (Fourth grade is the most challenging for me because I am not use to working with that active of an age group. Turn my back for one second, and at least three peole are our of their seats andiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1060880896514110862003-08-14T10:08:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:55.396-07:00Assalamu alaikum
Alhumdulillah, I took my kids, and two extra boys camping last weekend. It is like my final free weekend before school starts! We went to Mark Twain National Forest, and the whole weekend was a mishap of events! (well, for me anyway, the everyone else still enjoyed it)
When I was in university, a group of us use to go to this cliff and rappell and climb, so the original iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1059662134791305922003-07-31T07:35:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:55.734-07:00Assalamu Alaikum All
Alhumdulillah, another week has past, and I got my first paycheck for this job! That is always exciting for me. My kids came home last Friday from Florida and were so excited to tell us where they went. Finally my house is not so empty and the sound of laughter is back... They did have a wonderful time on the beach, visiting the space center, Waterworld, ect. This weekiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1059080573160032322003-07-24T14:02:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:57.108-07:00Assalamu alaikum
Alhumdulillah, one class is over now, and all I have is a Speech final on Monday. Alhumdulillah, I did well on my speech exam, and speech on Spyware. I feel good about my paper (with the topic Does the President have the right and duty to lead the war on international terrorism?) I'm not sure that the teacher will agree with my viewpoints, but he said what was most important iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1058477768235593402003-07-17T14:36:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:57.640-07:00Assalamu Alaikum All!!
Alhumduillah, my job as the Masjid is going well so far. There is a lot of work to do, which is wonderful for me! I get to prove my value and willingness to work. There is one person left to be interviewed on Friday, and MashaAllah her resume looked very impressive! A teacher for five years in Math and Science and someone who as gone out of her way to help educate the iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-1058152262287567242003-07-13T20:11:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:54:59.662-07:00Assalamu alaikum
JazakAllah for all the duas! I regret having been quiet so long, and having to remain that way into the near future :-(.
Here is a quick update for me, if anyone happens by in spite of my prolonged silence... Our new son is so delightful that I don't have the word to describe him, Alhumdulillah he is such a joy.
I am taking intensive classes this summer. They are iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-949723182003-05-27T20:53:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:01.481-07:00Assalamu Alaikum
Yea, I have a job interview tomorrow so wish me luck! No change since yesterday... I just want to record some memories of the weekend. Saturday, 4 of Sayang's friends came over all bearing food and new baby gifts. Alhumdulillah they were so generous, and brought delicious food that we are still eating. It was a fun afternoon for my wife, and our kids had fun playing with iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-948835862003-05-25T21:31:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:01.618-07:00Assalamu alaikum
Alhumdulillah, No baby yet :) It is still a few weeks early, so this is good news. My wife would like to have a (almost) full term pregnancy this time since both of my sons were 6 and 5 weeks early... The doctor said that should baby stay in, then she will induce during the 3rd week of June (date still not determined). We were told there is about 70% chance that baby will iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-938108732003-05-05T10:33:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:01.851-07:00Assalamu Alaikum
Alas, no interesting news today... Alhumdulillah, three couples visited us this weekend, each bringing food! :) We have Satay w/ peanut sauce, Curry, kurma, Pad Thai, Nasi Lamak w/ anchovies. Mmmmm And one family brought pizza for the kids 'cause they were afraid malay food was too hot :D.
There was an open forum at the Masjid on Sunday while my kids were in school. It wasiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-936719232003-05-02T13:53:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:01.922-07:00Assalamu alaikum
Job Search
Heh, I just came from the human resources department at the Community college. They are now interviewing for "my" job. Unfortunately, I didn't make the first cut, and while talking to the head of human resources, she said they received over 1500 applications :(. And here I thought Math instructors are in demand! The competition is tough in this market also. On theiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-934461732003-04-28T21:44:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:01.977-07:00Assalamu Alaikum Wr. Wb.
Home
Updates!!! :D
Three weeks without blogging... I'm not Dead!!!!! Please don't bury me yet. I got wrapped up in my little shell, withdrawing from the world.
I may be away for a couple of more weeks, but I will try to update weekly (insha Allah). I have been sitting on big news, and it is getting the worst of me right now, so let me start with updates.
No Job. Myiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-918626672003-04-02T12:54:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:02.107-07:00Assalamu alaikum
Home
UPDATES!!!
I was up, and trying to learn more ASP Sunday Morning, and my wife tells me that the car will not start for her to take the kids to Madressa. I come downstairs, and try myself without success (after checking battery connections) so I call my parents and ask for help. They show up about a half hour later, and I can only find half of my booster cables. So my dad iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-914589812003-03-26T21:46:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:02.146-07:00Assalamu alaikum
Work
Alhumdulillah, I met with some of my co-workers for lunch, and had a good time. Three are employed, and one is still looking. But we exchanged ideas and compared notes. There are a couple of ideas that I need to follow up with tomorrow moring. Mmmm, we went to Thai Kitchen, and I had cashew tofu. It was so delicious! I keep trying to get sayang to go, but she doesn't iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-913264952003-03-24T22:00:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:02.187-07:00Assalamu alaikum
home
Wow, Sayang got a gift certificate from my parents. We went shopping today for her to get clothes. Then grocery shopping and back home again. Hey, I think we got a dirty look, but alhumdulillah, no one wants to pick on us :-). Everyone we've met has been friendly. This is great since about 100km from us the Masjid got a threating letter. It was depressing to read aboutiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-912488142003-03-23T17:52:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:02.243-07:00Assalamu alaikum
home
YEA a water fight at my house :-) It is warm enough this week! (Have to refer to comments if they don't get archived off too soon).
Last summer we got into a big fight with many water balloons, hoses, super soakers. There are three houses lined up in a row, and all three families were participated, along with the neighbor across the street. It was a lot of fun, and alliggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-908197292003-03-16T15:08:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:02.269-07:00Assalamu alaikum,
Sorry for my long silence. I have tried twice to blog, but keep getting errors. Flustrated...iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-903611662003-03-08T10:33:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:02.340-07:00Job Search
Alhumdulillah, I submitted my resume, application, transcripts and cover letter to the community college, and visited the head of the Math Department. She was a little stand-offish, but she warmed up after a little while, and offered ideas on other places I could work in the community college. The Dean of Health, Math, and Science was in a meeting, so I will meet with her on Monday.iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-902463182003-03-06T10:01:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:02.493-07:00I spent the yesterday evening working on my resume and didn't post anything. Alhumdulillah, I now have a teaching resume, and three cover letters to deliver to the local community college. This is my dream position, so I am putting extra effort into it. Today, I will type the application, and submit it either this afternoon, or tomorrow morning. I spoke with a teacher over there, and he was iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-901549692003-03-04T21:03:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:02.599-07:00Work
EEEEK!!! I get this knock on the door at about 8:30pm yesterday, and there was a police officer, and detective on my front porch. I make the mistake of turning on the light and both of the close their eyes, and shield their faces :-) So I apologize profusely, heart pounding, and step outside for them to introduce themselves. They are from the department serving my ex workplace and iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-900962592003-03-03T22:47:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:02.789-07:00Assalamu alaikum!
Sorry for the extended silence and Thank you for all of the messages :-). I have so much to catch up with. I will do what I can now that I have more time on my hands.
Work
Alas, the ax has fallen. I have made a career of dodging cut backs, and keeping myself useful enough to justify my salary. This time, the economy has been too harsh though. Last Thurday (Feb 27) I am iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-894441242003-02-20T10:55:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:02.993-07:00Work
Monday was Presidents day! I had an extended weekend!
Tuesday, I started writing a proposal to revamp the office network. We have a generic file and print server that is open to everyone, and the managers have decided that it needs to be organized. I agree with them, to give an example of the chaos, we have an application, application2, and apps folder all with different versions of the iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-893912852003-02-19T15:23:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:03.012-07:00Assalamu Alaikum All
Family
I've had a busy week! We had a three-day weekend for Presidents day, and I spent the weekend helping my son finish his science fair project (making sure that he did most of the work....) We completed, and tested a solar oven. It probably wasn't the best project to choose in the winter, but where there's a will, there's a way. It became an indoor solar oven, iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-888739912003-02-10T15:22:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:03.032-07:00Eid Mubarak
YEA Eid is tomorrow, and I don't have to work :-). I have to take a vacation day because it's not an official holiday here, but still. It's always fun going to special prayers as a family, and since it is downtown this year, we get to ride the train and my kids love that! A lot of my friends still have to work, so it is either Open house at the mosque, or eat out. Haven't decided iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-887076942003-02-07T08:10:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:03.137-07:00Jazak-Allahu khayran for all the kind comments. I am still employeed, and will be placed at another client eventually... The economy is stressful sometimes, but Allah willl provide, and will take care of us
Heh, I'm keeping busy. The last two days, I copied 3.6gb of data from the network server to CD, I inventoried and organized 150 CD's in the library (half done there :-) ). Fixed a computeriggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-885594702003-02-04T17:27:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:03.166-07:00Eek. I came in to work yesterday, and all was well. I got ahead of my teammates again, and started doing Office computer Administration stuff. Today, I don't even have a chance to sit down. My project manager senses my arrival, hunts me down, and escorts me to the branch managers office. The two of them tell me that the project has been put on ice. All of my billable work is gone, and I am iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-882128952003-01-29T09:53:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:03.189-07:00Work Yesterday I ended up spending the day implementing the latest type library that my coworker gave me, so today, I get a fresh start with a clean app, and continue my mission for yesterday. I also managed to volunteer to become the software librarian :-). InshaAllah, I want to keep getting more work in the Sys admin area for the office, because our office really needs it. This is just so iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-881570492003-01-28T07:51:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:03.200-07:00Work
My mission for the day... Continue to add DB connection to form to show price list, and send information to discount server. Apply discount results, Add textbox for quantity input, and calculate final price based on selection, discount, and quantity.
iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-881201372003-01-27T15:34:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:03.211-07:00Happy Monday
Work
Today I was in a 7 hour CMM level 3 required meeting?!?. CMM, Capibility Maturity Model, is a methodology developed by the Carnigie Institute and a status that rates companies in their effectness in documenting, and repeating performance. Government agencies require a certain level of documentation in order to bid for contracts in areas such as health care, defense, and iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-879817152003-01-24T16:31:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:03.224-07:00Friday
It's Friday!!!!! We got great comments today during the Proof of Concept demo!
Alhamdulillaahi rabbil 'alameen, My son did wonderful in the District Spelling bee. He lasted through 5 rounds, and there were only seven students left when he was eliminated, and the whole time, he was cool, calm, and collected. I was spelling with the kids, and I would have been out in the third round. I iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-879786082003-01-24T15:20:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:03.237-07:00Work Sorry this is a note to myself to timesheet tracking :)
Assignment for the day... Add fuel grade buttons to Cat server to determine price (show price, and grade on form, add button to select grade, and determine price based on grade. Today, I worked on creating a Cat Server client, to simulate 6 fuel pumps. I modified the CC verification so that the bulk of the code resided in a functioniggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-878153082003-01-21T18:58:00.000-07:002008-11-03T17:55:03.250-07:00Delphi is evil
I'm still at work! My teammate set me an updated version of the prototype we are working on, and it isn't compiling on my workstation. This is to irritating! We have set up a dcom server to communicate with a remote program, and in the process overloaded a procedure to take one or no argument. He stayed up all night to get it to work at home, and now is here with me trying to iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-877970732003-01-21T12:38:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.298-07:00New Years Blog Resolution
Eeks, I started 3 of the past five entries with Wow... I'm getting sloppy! Sorry :-)
I need to start adding titles like I was before, and to be more careful of the presentation...
Alas, we are required to keep track of our daily activities, so there will probably be a section appearing so I can look back, and validate my existence to my managers *Blah*
As an aside, iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-877965572003-01-21T12:27:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.301-07:00Happy Tuesday!
I had Monday blah's yesterday, and ended up catching up on e-mail, and working on Delphi. Alhumdulillah I had a good weekend though. I took my kids to watch Spy Kids II. They enjoyed it more than the first one, and I thought it was a cute movie. (OK, we waited until it got to the dollar theater...It wasn't worth full price like say, LOTR or Harry Potter.... but Three dollarsiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-873555692003-01-13T08:30:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.306-07:00I guess my blog has slowed down with my job change... I am having to readjust my schedule and sleeping habits back to a more normal life :-)
My first week as a programmer has gone well. We have the project kick-off meeting in 20 minutes, where I will get my assignments, and see the project plan, so Alhumdulillah all is well.
This weekend, we went to a friends house, and Alhumdulillah iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-871758952003-01-09T11:34:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.309-07:00I've been a delphi programmer for 4 days! We turned in our assignments yesterday, and the staff expert said he thought I was one of the top canidates in understanding the material, and code. Now I'm scared, because I answered the questions based on the comments, and not the code! I have no doubt that I can learn it, and come up to speed, it's just I don't want to set the wrong expectation...iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-870589362003-01-07T06:48:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.312-07:00Wow First day done at my new assignment. My project manager visited and asked if I had exercises ready. I asked what exercises. I told him I had been working though the examples in the book, but I had been skipping the end-of-chapter questions becuase they felt too much like homework :-) He laughed at that, then asked me to do them for Chapters 1 to 10, or at least as much as I could humanly iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-869786882003-01-05T16:36:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.318-07:00Well, this morning was my last day at the railroad... I had trouble sleeping Saturday (I finally got 2 hours sleep), and I was off to work at 11:00pm, and so sleepy. What is it about sleep that makes it so nice to do it at night? I always assumed 3rd shift workers were like vampires. Anyway, co-worker was remorseful, but I was dead. I dozed off a coule of times to his amusement. It was quietiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-868705292003-01-03T02:52:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.325-07:00Argh, i got caught! A server went down last night, and I rebooted it. I guess I was hoping that no one would notice, but our monitering system caught it, and a engineer checked the monitoring system, called my manager, and started asking questions. Well, alas, I didn't create a log entry, so my manager was clueless, and has no recourse but to send an e-mail to me asking what was up. So I am iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-868203702003-01-02T01:09:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.330-07:00Happy New Year!
I went to my parents for New Years Eve, but we all wimped out, and I left at 10:30pm. (They drove home from Colorado the night before, so they were exhausted). Alhumdulillah, it was a quiet night. I ended up spending about an hour on their computer cleaning it up. When finished, their network connection was much faster...
YEAH, we went to a Malay open house today. Lots of iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-867366542002-12-31T00:16:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.576-07:00YEA, It's New Years Eve! That means it will be even quieter, and I am the only one working. I checked, and there is nothing important scheduled, so I would potentially sleep all shift! (Joking... I haven't slept at work yet, except that one time last year when I had the flu, if any managers are reading this, rest assured that I am sincerely guarding them computers, and cracking the whip so iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-866970552002-12-30T07:05:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.593-07:00Woohoo, my first day in the office, with my new, empty, barren cube. I need to get some stuff to personalize it. Acutally, I'm not done with my old client yet, but I have some work to do for the new project to get up to speed.... Wow, I was the first person here :-), and it is so quiet! Have to be careful, and not spend all my time on the internet
InshaAllah, I will write a more formal entryiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-866163472002-12-27T23:31:00.001-07:002008-03-05T16:21:58.631-07:00Jumuah Mubarak!Today for Friday prayer, Imam spoke about the importance of guarding our kids faith. We hold interfaith conferences on a weekly basis where anyone is invited, and representatives of Islam, Catholicism, Judaism and Prostantism (? non-Catholic Christian). Last weeks conference the panel was asked how they would feel if their kids left the family religion. Our Imam responded that he iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-865426932002-12-26T01:18:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.604-07:00Nothing interesting today... Still reading Delphi, and still behind. Sorry if I am quiet for the next week...
Heh, I'm also grumpy :-) I am so ready to be done with 3rd shift that it is hard to keep a good attitude at work. Don't get me wrong, I am pleasant to be around, just overly work evasive :-)iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-865063722002-12-24T23:18:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.613-07:00YEA ten days left to guard the computers! This being a holiday, I get the place all to myself! this is probably a good thing because I am like 60 pages behind in reading the programming book for my next assignment....
The kids are off school for the holidays, and so excited. Today it snowed all day! We have about 5 inches so far, and it is still coming down. My son asked if he could make aniggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-863341052002-12-20T14:05:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.826-07:00Jumuah Mubarak
Alhumdulillah! My son won the spelling bee at his school!!!
Alhumdulillah, My cousin is getting better, and my auntie is doing better. So my parents came back. They traveled about 2400 miles in four days!
Alhumdulillah, two of my uncles will be in town this weekend. One will be taking my grandma back south for Christmas.
Today at Friday Prayer, they made an announcement iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-862626292002-12-19T02:13:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.831-07:00Laval University
I was talking to my son's teacher today, and it brought back pleasant memories.
In high school, I took as much French as I could. I continued this in University, taking more French then necessary for my degree. My sophomore year, I heard about an exchange program with Laval University in Quebec City, Quebec. With some investigation, I was soon enrolled in an intensive Frenchiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-862089002002-12-18T00:39:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.834-07:00Assalamu alaikum All,
I have post holiday Blah's, and a serious case of 'short-timers syndrome'. Three weeks to go, and I will be on a normal shift. But my motivation to work here is declining rapidly :(. The company made an anouncement during my weekend that more headcount is going to be cut. So the moral around me has declined. Meanwhile, I read 100 pages about Delphi in preparation for iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-859431042002-12-13T06:11:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.839-07:00Life as a consultant
My new assignment is official. I stopped by the office today, and was given books to start learning Delphi, introduced to my future team-mates, and project manager, and was given software to install at home to start learning and practicing. I found out that Delphi the the replacement/upgrade of Borland Pascal. Even though it is an older language, I used it in school for iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-858908812002-12-12T05:50:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.842-07:00Work at the railroad
Heh, since I'm killing time before rebooting a server I will talk about the railroad some more :-) Today, I am upgrading Oasis at the intermodal sites. Oasis is container tracking software, which helps organize intermodal railyards. An intermodal yard is a site that loads transfer truck trailers onto flatbed cars to transport them across the country... Enough definitions.iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-858892032002-12-12T04:48:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.846-07:00Life as a consultant
Eek, I spoke to my manager today. There is a lack of web projects so my assignment is to learn Delphi as fast as possible. They are going to put me on a application development team creating a new module for our Point of Sales software. My company has successfully developed the software used at the registers at convience stores, and gas stations. One of the customers iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-858303662002-12-11T02:27:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.849-07:00Eid Celebration
Eid was great! I took the night off so that we could go to Eid prayer as a family. Alhumdulillah, there was a large turn-out, and the Gym was packed. Unfortunately, I was cranky because of my disrupted sleep patterns, and took a nap while the rest of my family went to the open house at the Masjid. I was told that I didn't miss anything except the usual messy people who come toiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-855274912002-12-05T00:52:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.908-07:00Selamat Hari Raya!
Eid-al-Fitr will be on Friday here. The community has rented the Gym at a community college for Eid prayers. Afterward all of the local Masjids are having an open house with lots of delicious food, and we get to go to several open houses. Alhumdulillah! I get to take tomorrow night off, so I can be nice and rested for Eid.
For those that I have offended, please forgive iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-854777622002-12-04T05:10:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.917-07:00Well tonight, I have a lot on my mind, so please forgive me for the lengthy post...
First things first, My coworker is trying to start a dream interpretation column, and get syndicated. His web-site is DreamWalker. He has put a lot of work into it, and offers a dream interpretation service to anyone interested...
iggry the teacher
Alhumdulillah. I got tired of waiting, and decided to iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-853723502002-12-02T04:51:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.923-07:00Visit to Malaysia
I'm so old...
Eeek! Alas, I have been aged beyond my years! *sulking* We went to visit my sister-in-law in Johor Baru (JB), and this little girl came up to me, and said "AssalamuAlaikum Atok". But anyway, my neices, and wife started laughing so much! I'm like, Okay, what did she say. Between fits of laughter, they finally told me that she called me grandpa! OUCH! They iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-853662822002-12-02T00:11:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.926-07:00How I became 'sister iggry'
I have visited sound vision for over a year posting very rarely as a visitor. I got to the point where I wanted to join in and test the waters, but still wanted to be anonymous. So I posted as iggry, figuring it could be either male or female. I related a story about shopping with a friend; where a little girl asked her mom if my friend was a princess. Several iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-852846812002-11-29T23:30:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.932-07:00Jumuah Mubarak
Assalamu Alaikum!
I was late to Jumuah :(. We planned to drop some cake off at a friends house, and ran out the door without it. So I turned around to get it, and made myself a couple of minutes late. Then the parking lot was packed, and people were parking on the grass. I eventually found a spot that wasn't blocking anyone, but was a little tight, and ran in to listen. iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-850006342002-11-24T01:14:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.946-07:00Thanksgiving is almost here in the U.S. Last year wasn't a problem as my parents visited my sister. This year, it is there turn to spend Thanksgiving with us. Alhumdulillah, they are very understanding with my decision to follow Islam. But it just feels weird on holidays during Ramadan. They are postponing Thanksgiving from their traditional late lunch to after Iftar, so we will get to pray iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-849629272002-11-23T01:32:00.002-07:002009-05-24T23:10:40.808-07:00Alhumdulillah! Friday prayer was wonderful. We have an Imam from Bosnia and an Imam from Sudan who alternate every Friday. Today the Imam from Bosnia spoke about events on the 17th of Ramadan, including the battle of Badr.Internet Clockiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-848609492002-11-21T01:55:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.955-07:00Selamat Ramadan
Today is the 15th of Ramadan!
Visit to Malaysia
Trip to Singapore
While staying with my mother-in-law, she said we should visit her sister in Singapore. We get up early in the morning to catch a cab to JB, and catch another cab to my Auntie's apartment. While there, my cousin takes us to the Masjid right by the apartment complex for Zuhr. It was a very attractive Masjid, and iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-846559762002-11-17T03:25:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.966-07:00Wow, a week without writing! Sorry... Happy Ramadan Everyone!!
This week, I finished TimeLine by Michael Creighton. It was a wonderful book, creatively bouncing back and forth between a high-tech quantum physics lab in the middle of New Mexico, and Old France, in the 1300's. It is definately worth reading!
iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-843062702002-11-09T23:56:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.969-07:00Friday Five
1. Did you vote in your last elections?
Yes, everyone in my family that was elegible to vote, we all voted
2. Do you know who your elected representatives are?
Alas, yes :-( They are not who I voted for.
3. Have you ever contacted an elected representative? If so, what was it about?
Yep, several times. House, Senate, President, Media... I contact them regarding issues relatigiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-841671402002-11-07T04:54:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.972-07:00Happy 2nd of Ramadan!
Hah, I just got caught praying Fajr in the computer room :-) One of the other Engineers slipped in the back way to reboot a server. He gave me a big smile when I was walking out. iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-841661932002-11-07T04:19:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.975-07:00Pest Removal
In Ayer Baloi, there are lizards everywhere! Mostly little ones, that run up and down the walls... They look so cute! But the first person up had to carefully walk through the house, and clean up any 'gifts' left behind by these little creatures. At my Mother-in-laws, there was a bigger one that lived in the attic. We would see him occasionally peak his head down and watch us or iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-841095082002-11-06T03:28:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.978-07:00Ramadan Mubarak Everyone!!
Visit to Malaysia
Nasheed Recital
What I miss most about Malaysia... hearing Azhan across the countryside. From my Mother-in-laws house, one Masjid was about a 5 min walk, and the other one was about a 10 minute walk. So it was nice to walk to maghrib, listen to a lecture, and return after home after Isha. One evening after Isha, there was a Nasheed contest, where iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-839967102002-11-04T02:47:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.982-07:00Visit to Malaysia
Assalamu Aliakum
I just finished catching up on Blogs that I read, and started thinking about my experience in Malaysia this summer, and thought about recording my memories...
Lessons in Bahasa Melayu
Alhumdulillah, we stayed at my In-laws house for the six week visit. While there, I frequently met Isa, a guy who stops in and helps around the house frequently. He runs iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-839954182002-11-04T01:43:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.985-07:00AARGH!!! I started coming down with a cold yesterday, and spent today in bed resting. I took some cough medicine, and was out for most of the day! I woke up at 11:45pm, realizing that I was late for work, and hadn't set my clock properly. Then rush rush rush! I wash my face, change, and run out the door. Driving to work, speeding, I happen to see a police officer coming onto the road that I iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-838697692002-11-01T04:55:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.989-07:00Yesterday I finished Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach. It was an interesting book, but I can see where it would be offensive to many religious people. It is written on the premise very similar to the movie the Matrix. The world is an illusion that we live in. We can choose to follow, and interact with the illusion, or we can escape from the illusion, and iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-838681842002-11-01T03:43:00.001-07:002009-05-24T23:20:16.610-07:00Friday Five1. Were you raised in a particular religious faith?Southern Baptist!! My uncles were deacons in the church, as was my grandfathers. My mom was my Sunday school teacher... As a teenager, I was elected president of the youth group, but I declined because I had too many other responsibilities, I went on mission tours, sang in the church choir, and played in the church orchestra, and lead iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-838173482002-10-31T03:23:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:23.998-07:00Happy B'day to me! Alhumdulillah, I am another year older and wiser. Actually the actual day was the 28th, but a lot of things were happening. While I was away for my weekend, my workstation got upgraded to Windows XP. This wrecked my internet access, and I will be hindered until it is fixed. InshaAllah, it will get straightened out soon!
OUCH! The car was acting funny, and the engine iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-835861442002-10-27T01:17:00.000-07:002009-05-24T23:07:05.666-07:00SLEEPY still. TGIF. Ok, maybe it is not actually Friday, but my weekend is on Sunday/Monday night, so it is the day before my weekend...Work at the Railroad Last night was so busy! There were two of us, and we easily did the work of 4 people. Alhumdillah we are a good team. Other shifts couldn't have handled themselves as well as we did. AEI (automated equipment inventory) was processing too slowiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-835523372002-10-26T06:11:00.001-07:002009-05-24T23:03:37.574-07:00Maybe it's the rain, but I am still sleepy, and have a hard time getting up for work. My mind is in some kind of slow phased-out state, and I have a hard time remembering what I did the past two days. I mis-behaved by starting an AoEII game, and have wasted a couple of hours a day on it. Thursday, I slept through CSI, and decided to go to bed.Hey It was Friday today:) Friday Prayer was good. Imamiggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-834001132002-10-23T04:46:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:24.227-07:00YEA! I built the first fire in our fireplace. Soon downstairs was a toasty 80 deg, and I had the air circulating upstairs also. Now, all I need is a lot of firewood! iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-832083452002-10-19T02:32:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:24.242-07:00Wish me luck, I just added Comments by HaloScan.
I also added a counter a the bottom of the page. I feel like I accomplished something tonight!!
Right now, I am reading the Thirteenth Tribe. I saw it recommended on Sound Vision, and thought I would check it out. I was fortunate enough to find an online copy.iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-832078372002-10-19T01:58:00.000-07:002006-01-13T19:54:23.456-07:00Today was a good day. I didn't get to sleep much, but I feel at peace with the world. The brick layer showed up at 9:30am, ready to work. He did a wonderful job. It was interesting to talk to him, and fun to watch him work. His wife helps him on his projects, and they make a wonderful team! Heh, his wife looked a little surprised when I came down for Friday prayer, dressed in traditional iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-832068672002-10-19T01:06:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:24.259-07:00Alhumdulillah, My co-worker gave me a book to read, and I finished it in about an hour. It was a wonderful book! Jonathan Livingston Seagull: a story, by Richard Bach. iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-831591652002-10-18T00:51:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:59:24.264-07:00Friday Five (.org)
1. How many TVs do you have in your home?
We have 1 TV in our house.
2. On average, how much TV do you watch in a week?
I am not a great TV fan. Since last friday, I have watched 6 hours of TV.
3. Do you feel that television is bad for young children?
I feel that too much television is bad for young children. In moderation, and censored, there are a lot of iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-831587712002-10-18T00:32:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:51:55.293-07:00Grumpy me today! We are getting a fireplace installed this fall. This is suspose to be a happy time, but it seems like a cursed endeavor, and is generating conflict in the family. After much shopping, we had narrowed the choice down to one from Buck stove, and another from Worthington stoves. The fireplaces were about the same, and Buck was more than a thousand cheaper and they are giving me iggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854743.post-831109112002-10-17T03:35:00.000-07:002009-05-24T22:51:55.313-07:00So much to learn, and so little time. Ever have the problem of work getting in the way of Personal life. I am a mathematician, living a life in IT. As sick as this sounds, I miss my math. My dream job is to become a professor at some small university, where I could focus on teaching, and not worry about the publish or perish philosophy at large schools. As soon as my kids graduate (or sooneriggryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00222176117117541886noreply@blogger.com0