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Those are you who are geeks like me have heard of LAN parties.  I have hosted several myself at my own home, the most recent being a World of Warcraft party with some former co-workers and people who live locally and are in the Guild that I raid with.  Yes, I realize that you do not play WoW on a LAN, but I have a FIOS connection at my house, so it was great fun to get everyone in a room together and play WoW on our regular realm.

Recently I have started a couple of new blogs in an effort to be more self-employed.  If you have read some of my recent posts, then you know that this self-employment choice was made for me by my former employer when I got laid off a couple of weeks ago.  So once I had some extra time on my hands, I decided to re-visit the idea of Professional Blogging.  I found this article and followed most of it, but it is 2 years old so some of the information was outdated.  However, one thing that remains true is that the more links you have pointed back to your blog, the more relevant your site will be in Google searches (there is a science behind this which I am not going to dive into right now).

So let’s do this: When I am done typing this article, I am going to post it on my Twitter and Facebook accounts, and what I want to do is add your blog URL to my blogroll, in exchange for you adding mine to yours.  I hope some of you have multiple blogs, because I do, LOL.  I currently have 4 blogs that I want to basically kick-start with new links to and from the site:

The blog themes are:

• Ubuntu
• Christian Rock Music
• World of Warcraft
• My personal blog, this one that I am posting on now.

If you have any blogs that relate or even semi-relate to these topics, let’s trade links.  Even if your personal blog isn’t about the same subjects that mine is, I will still link to you from at least this blog because it is more of an overall topic blog anyway.

I look forward to seeing the replies to this topic.

Today I had an exciting job interview with Research In Motion (RIM) who are the Blackberry people.  I wasn’t aware that the company was based out of Canada or that their US Corporate Headquarters were here in DFW, but I do now.  And good for me, apparently.

The interview went very well and I am excited to see their follow-up with me.  The position is for a Supervisor of their Blackberry HelpDesk agents, something very similar to what I have been doing for the past 3 years with CSC.

Hopefully I will hear something later this week or next week from them, and obtain a 2nd interview.

This weekend is Emily’s family reunion at Lake Brownwood.   Right now I am sitting in the motel room (it’s actually more like a cabin at a church camp, but resembles a motel room) and I am connected to the wifi connection that they broadcast here at the park.  Some say I am addicted to being online, which is why I take my laptop everywhere.  I would disagree with this statement though, because as soon as I can afford the surgery to implant a wifi transmitter in my brain with an image projector that I can see through the back of my eye, I won’t need a laptop anymore.  So obviously, I am not addicted.

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Yesterday I was informed that I no longer had a job with CSC.  It came as somewhat of a surprise, but it is also something I have seen coming for a period of time.  I am not sure what I am going to do yet, but I do have a few options available to me.

God will provide, of that I have no doubt.  And I am somewhat morbidly curious about what direction He is going to take me now also.  I wish it hadn’t happened quite like this, but you have to roll with the punches, right?  Hey, at least now I don’t have to wear shoes for a while.

I’ll close this post with a quote from someone I have watched since I was very young;

“It’s not about how hard you get hit, it’s about how hard you CAN get hit and keep moving forward.  Get up…”  -Rocky Balboa

We are sitting at the airport on Kauai,  awaiting a flight to Honolulu.  Its only a 30 min flight, then a 1.5 hour lay-over, and a First-Class flight from Honolulu to LAX.  From there we have a 2.5 hour lay-over and then a 3 hour flight home from LAX to DFW.

The trip has been very fun.  I will be uploading photos, some here and some on my Photo-Reflect site, in a couple of days.  Watch for them.

I haven’t blogged in 3 days because we’ve been busy – also I realized after my last post that I had forgotten my CF Card reader at home, so I can’t upload any of the photos I have been taking until I get back to Grapevine.

Yesterday we went on a helicopter ride with the company Blue Hawaiian Helicopter Tours, and that was probably the most fun I have had since we’ve been here.  We flew all over the Kauai Island and saw many waterfalls and canyons on the island.  Our pilot’s name was Dean and he was quite informative of the historic details of the island.

Last night we went to a Luau at Smith’s Tropical Paradise.  They had many varieties of birds and plants at this wildlife preservation location, and they served great food.  At the end of the night, they finished off with a show of Hula dancers from Hawaii with some traditional Chinese, Japanese, Tahitian, Samoan, and New Zea-land dances mixed in.

Today we go to a 1-hour Time Share “information gathering” session where they will try and sell us a time share.  It’s doubtful we will get anything… it is nice here, but the prices on everything around the hotel are so expensive, it almost makes it not worth it.

Sitting by the pool with a Rum and Coke right now. We leave this evening for Kauai where we will spend the rest of our time here. Nice weather outside today, this hotel has open doors in all the hallways and a bar in the lobby with an entire open wall to the pool outside.