Thursday July 20th, 2000

Parenting is the most amazing and wonderful experience! I was gone for a day (to Kansas City- more on that in a bit) and I just can’t get over just how fast my little boy is growing up! You should see him running around our (his) neighborhood with all of his friends. I can’t tell you what kind of joy that brings…

I haven’t had a chance to work on my Orlando page in a couple days. Hopefully tomorrow. I am back at work at the moment (12:40am -technically the 21st) doing a software upgrade on one of my systems. Yesterday Joe and I drove out to Kansas to do an upgrade there only to find out that the people that scheduled the upgrade (It’s a two part procedure of which I am responsible for half) didn’t plan very well. The only person they had capable of doing the upgrade was fired about twenty minutes after we got there. Suddenly everyone there assumed that we would take care of the whole procedure. After talking with two managers and a regional, I convinced them that it would not be in the company’s best interest to dive into a full upgrade without any thought or advanced planning. We did manage to accomplish several other minor feats of wonder while we were there, so the trip wasn’t a total loss. So, last night was Kansas, tonight is the BWM (broadcast warning message- telephone talk for an O/S patch) at the Duncan switch and tomorrow night we attempt (again) to retrofit (that’s telephone talk for upgrading to a new O/S version ) the Woodsmill switch. Kind of a busy week.

***today is the one month anniversary of my journal!***
This has gotten to be a much more rewarding experience than I expected. I look forward to re-reading this in a year. I hope that I can keep up with this. I guess I should start thinking about an archive process to keep this page loading quickly.