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January 16, 2006

Only Four? Not Enough

Four Jobs You've Had In Your Life
1) Summer Executive Gopher:

I worked for a consulting company in Houston the summer after my first year of college. I ran errands, delivered proposals, did all of the office supply shopping, and when I was actually in the office I helped with payroll and expense accounts.

2) Restaurant Industry - Hostess, Waitress & Manager:

I waited tables at Poppa Rollos Pizza, I worked as a Hostess and a Waitress at two different Casa Ole' locations, and then I worked as a Cashier/Server at McAlister's Deli before being promoted to Assistant Manager.

3) Teacher:

I taught Math for Kumon in High School in 1991-1992. I taught Internet and American Sign Language at a Kids College in 1999. I taught Computer Science and Webmastering in Smalltown, TX HighSchool in 1999-2000. I taught Computer Science, BCIS, Keyboarding, Digital Graphics and Multimedia at Hightower HS in 2000-2002.

Finally, I taught Webmastering, Organizational Skills, Manners, Animal Caretaking, Medieval History, and LegoLogo Programming for a 3week summer enrichment program for gifted and talented 3rd - 6th graders in 2000-2003. This was the most fulfilling and amazing 9 weeks of teaching I ever had. If this program was year round, I'd still be teaching.

4) Software Support Specialist and Accounts Payable

I worked for a small manufacturing company. We made corrugated sheets that we sold to box companies so that they could fold the sheets into boxes. We would get in trouble if we said the word "cardboard." I started out in the IT department. I got to set up a training center, buy new computers, and create curriculum to teach our employees how to better utilize things like Excel and Outlook to make them more productive in their jobs. I was the geek who everyone called when their computer acted up. If it was something involving software I could usually fix it and explain to them why it was doing that. If it was hardware I called in backup. Then my job was expanded to also take over the Accounts Payable after my good friend, BDNC, left us. About 3 months later the company let me take off 3 weeks unpaid to go teach that summer program (mentioned above) and they finally hired someone else for Accounts Payable. So, when I returned my position turned into "Special Projects" I got to do a lot of computer graphics work and going back and reconciling the company's American Express card against the expense reports that were turned in.

From the part of me that shows thru on this blog, you really don't get to see the REAL GEEK in me. The NetworkAdmin was desperate to get Lotus123 off of our computers company wide. There were still quite a few major files that were still being used on a monthly basis. My favorite "special project" that I got to work on my last 6 months or so at this company... I took the old Lotus123 version 1.0 spreadsheets (with macros) from 1980 that they were still using to keep track of monthly and yearly inventory... and converted it to Excel and reprogrammed all the macros. Back in the first few versions of Lotus123, they didn't have separate spreadsheets so the next "page" was just over to the right of the previous one. This meant I had to print out the entire spreadsheet, TAPE it together and hang it on a wall, label the columns ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZAAAB,etc. and figure out the formulas, put it all into Excel using the different worksheet tabs and then get the macros workiing. We tested the Excel version along with the Lotus123 version for 4 months and then they trashed the old version. That project was SO much fun. Yeah, I know. I'm a Geek.

Four Movies You Could Watch Over And Over
1) Somewhere In Time
2) Serendipity
3) The Notebook
4) Untamed Heart

Four Places You've Lived
1) Houston, Texas
2) Smalltown, Texas (not far from Houston)
3) TheArmPitOfHell, Texas
4) Dallas, Texas

Four TV Shows You Love To Watch
1) Two and a Half Men
2) Judging Amy
3) Growing Pains (what happened to my reruns?)
4) Good Eats

Four Places You've Been On Vacation
1) Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
2) Orlando. Florida
3) Nassau Bay, Bahamas
4) Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California

Four Blogs You Visit Daily (Just Four?)
1) Ness(a)Lee
2) The Dallas K's
3) Miss Zoot
4) Veering Off Course

Four Of Your Favorite Foods
1) Olives
2) Seafood
3) Royal Riviera Pears
4) DARK CHOCOLATE

Four Places You'd Rather Be
1) At Home
2) In Bed
3) Asleep
4) Till Noon

Four Albums You Can't Live Without
1) Neil Diamond - The Greatest Hits (1966-1992)
2) Barbra Streisand - One Voice
3) The John Denver Collection
4) Rascal Flatts

Four Vehicles You've Owned
1) 1989 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera SL
2) 1993 Saturn SC2
3) 1996 and 2000 Saturn SL2
4) 2003 Saturn VUE

Four People To Be Tagged
1) Whoever
2) Hasn't
3) Done It
4) Yet

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