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My Almost-daily Journal |
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| About I love trying out new things, especially when it comes to internet technology. I never really kept a journal, but it's something that I've always wanted to do. Now, everybody will get a chance to look inside my twisted, and somewhat-warped mind.
I've also subscribed to Audio Blog, so a few times a week, I'll leave actual voice blogs. Very cool!XML Newsfeed Previous Posts
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Saturday, April 02, 2005
Latest News - Finally! Most of you have probably heard the good news, and some of you have probably figured it out. It's now official! Danielle and I are expecting a baby! We had to wait until we heard the heartbeat from the OB/Gyn-- at 13 weeks! It wasn't good enough that we heard the heartbeat two weeks ago on a hand-held doppler that one of Danielle's friends borrowed from work (she's an RN). It's very exciting to hear a fetal heart pumping away at 160 bpm! Amazing! What's more amazing is that we heard the heart beat at 6 weeks, with a more high-tech ultrasound at a hospital. Six weeks is about as early as you can hear the heart! We even saw an ultrasound of our 6-week old baby, yolk-sac and all!  I'm so excited about dopplers, I bought one the other day from ebay! It's all so exciting! Now Peter and Michelle's baby (expecting in eight weeks), will be play cousins... hopefully not kissing cousins. Decoma Well, I finally did it. I'm now officially off the DSIG payroll. I have accepted a position upstairs (back to my early, original group) to work on automated running boards. I've only officially been onboard with the DSIG group for about two years, but I have been away from OEM engineering for about four years. I've had a pretty exciting career at Decoma. There's never been a dull moment. I started out engineering exterior components for Ford, then I went on to managing the Ford Release Group, along with creating and managing the division intranet. I then went on to IT development (still in same group) to discover a way to bring Decoma out of the 19th century and help push us farther into a paperless society. I discovered Nexprise, and for the next year or two, I helped setup, implement and rollout the system on an international level, hooking up all our divisions in Canada, our engineering division in Troy, as well as divisions scattered across the US, as well as overseas. It was quite a daunting task, and Decoma is still using the system today. I then moved on to become a project manager of our development center, which was one of the best experiences in my tenure. It was exciting because I helped manage the building of show vehicles, which meant I was always getting performance items from vendors such as Borla, Enkei, Warn, etc. to put on the show vehicles. That came to an end a little too soon, and I was placed where I was needed: a program manager for DaimlerChrysler's specialty vehicle group. Biggest headache there was blow-molding a spoiler and stuffing it with foam. I could spend a year typing about all the grief with that program. They're still suffing foam into a blow-molded spoiler to this day. Then the whole face of Decoma changed with a restructuring, and DSIG spawned into quite a large organization. I continued as a program manager, and helped launch a specialty program in about six months- a world record to me, and probably a world record in the entire automotive industry. Too bad I didn't get a medal. Maybe a swift kick in the teeth, but definitely not a medal. I then ended up in engineering, and worked on several projects. Too bad I was never able to see one from concept to grave. I am leaving behind an exciting program, that should be 90% designed and ready to get manufactured. And off I go... Monday is my last day. I did go in on Saturday to try and wrap things up. No medals, though. I don't think anybody ever notices. P4 3.4 EE Looks like my P4 3.4 EE is covered under warranty. Thank goodness I bought it (used) from a reputable source. Lesson learned: don't buy used cpu's. You never know what type of torture and/or abuse they have been subjected to. This one was probably overclocked to kingdom come. Hopefully that will resolve the grief I have been having with World of Warcraft. Perhaps WoW ruined the cpu? Who knows? Crazier things have happened. Speaking of WoW... I haven't been able to play a decent round for well over a week. I'm having major WoW withdrawal. Bidness My web business has kicked up steam, almost to the point that I barely manage the workload. If I won the lotto, and I didn't have to work, I would quit my day job and do web sites full time. Perhaps if business increases, it'll be something that I actually do on a full-time basis. For now, I need the insurance that my day job offers. That's all for now! posted by Dino at 2:50 PM (permanent link)
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I was thinking something more along the lines of "Immanuel", myself. Or, perhaps a name after one of His siblings, or at least after someone in His bloodline. :)
Congrats to you guys, how exciting! Demosthenis was a tight name growing up, you might want to consider it. One things for sure, He'll get his Respek by namesake alone!
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On another note, congrats on the job move, hopefully this will be less stress? and more family time! ;) |