Well, now that my issues with Nexl appear to have come to a close (one more note for those investigating, they never did refund the money in the alloted timeframe, so start your chargebacks asap), I guess I should turn back to talking about the rest of my life.  And much has been happening, let me just say.

Lets start on the employment front.   I think I’ve found my dream job, at my dream company…  now if only it wasn’t contract based.  I’m working as a lab tech at the local office of a very large software company.  Basically, I’m in charge of all the hardware in the lab, and all the laptops/desktops/etc for all the developers and testers as well.  I get to spend all day building, testing, fixing etc computers.  It’s so wonderful!  And, the company is great to it’s employees as well.  Even though I’m just a contractor, my first week they gave me a paid day off to go to their summer party, where my wife won an iPod, and a paid half day to celebrate the launch of the latest software release.  Not bad for the first week.  And they really do make sure we have everything we need.  I’ve been here a month, and just got approvals to buy a $5000 piece of machinery to save me some time, and thousands on other hardware/software just for me.  And it’s even more amazing to see what comes out of a place that takes such good care of their employees.  The results are inspiring to say the least.  Fortunately, my supervisors and bosses like me enough that we’re already making out plans for how I move from a contractor to a full time employee.  At the very least, I should have almost a year more here.  I’m crossing my fingers that it’s more than that though.

My wife has also recently started a new job.  She’s the manager for a rather impressive apartment complex in our city.  It’s difficult work, but she is doing fantastic at it.  Every day she is impressing her co-workers and managers with the things she can do.  I’m so proud

We’ve also both started new characters in World of Warcraft..  I know I shouldn’t say anything about it, as it will cause more confusion about me being the Kishkumen that apparently everyone knows in the game.  So lets say it again, I’m not that guy.  Really.  I’ve been using this name for well over a decade, but I’m not the one you are thinking of.  Unless you happen to be one of the… maybe 3 people I’ve been in a party with.  Then maybe I’m the guy you’re thinking of, though I doubt any of them actually are going to be looking for me again.  Anyway, moving on.  We got the Burning Crusade expansion, and have started out on the Horde side.  I’m playing a bloodelf rogue, and my wife is playing a Tauren Druid.  So far we’ve only made it to about level 10, but I’m enjoying it.  I’ve missed the DPS a good rogue can pull.  One of the most annoying things about starting over is not having a mount though…  I miss being able to go fast.  Oh well, we’ll get there eventually.

Oh, we did get a PS3 recently… Thanks to one of my friends.  He caught me up to date about Sony not using hardware backwards compatibility  on the new 80 gig PS3 systems, so I got a 60 gig once the price dropped so I can be sure to be able to keep my old stuff.  Just have one game for it so far, but we are so very looking forward to Rock Band coming out in November.  I’ll be accepting applications to audition for the bad, as well as suggestions for the bands name.  We are currently known as TWEC, but since no one really knows why, we’re open to change.

I do believe that’s the major stuff.  Hopefully I’ll be able to write a bit more here and there.  Guess we’ll see!