Dun!!!

I am done with training and I get a 3 day weekend and then I get to be a true member of the Q on Tuesday. I cant wait to get these chats and start working for goal. Its end of month here at work and that means craziness. Its been a tough month for sales and people have been pushing their quotas right to the end. There is a conflicting feel in the air as those who are hitting their quotas begin to celebrate and those that have not hit yet are feeling the stress. It makes for a very lively and positive environment.

I my self am enjoying the energy, there is lots of free food and drinks and people jumping for joy and working to help out others who are close. I'm glad I work here and cant wait to really get to work.

I want to mention that I'm very proud of Poni, she has been doing very well with her home business and is really beginning to make some money. It helps with the bills and really helped us get through the least couple of weeks. Once I get ramped up on the Q I will be bringing home even bigger pay checks. Cant wait.

K

TTFN

Life's Good

No its not a plug for LG :)

Life is generally good. I have a new job, but your tired of hearing about that. But I'm also almost done with school so I will soon have an associates degree in Web Communications. I'm also completely broke, but that has somehow been liberating, as opposed to deciding what to do with the money I make, I don't have to since I have not been making any money. That will change soon though as I now have a new job that pays well. The kids start school soon and that is a private school that seems to be really amazing. Poni is also working her home business and is making money, not a profit yet, but she is making money. We are pretty sure that she should be profitable by the end of next month. Yay.

So of course part of my happiness is D&D. I'm currently running 2 D&D games a week, and they are both rocking with individual campaigns. Its great.

Well its time to get back to work so, off I go. Shades of Heroes will be updated soon.

So this is fun

I'm blogging from work. I'm off...thank you for asking. But the novelty of it is just great. Sure I could blog from work before, but somehow its cooler here, 'cus its encouraged. Not blogging specifically, but the idea of multi tasking. They want us to be multi tasking gods. Ultimatly I should be able to handle 3 chats and a phone call at the same time. The phone is what will reall throw me off.

Most of you know that I can jun many chats at once, but if I'm on the phone and a butterfly goes buy I'm distracted. So this will be a major challenge for me. But, I have a head set with noise cancellation, that should help.

Poni's dad took a turn for the worst yesterday, but I have not heard anything for an update, so I'm kinda praying that no news is good news.

So whats with the tuns of chats but no comments... I actually have not really told anyone that I'm blogging again. This has become more of a cathartic exercise and less of a social networking tool for me. I don't plan on sending out a mass e-mail to say, "hey, I'm blogging so look at me and comment."

What is really important to me is the Shades of Heroes Blog. I want people to look at that. Its a place where I can share game information, actual content for 4e or Shades of Heroes. But, this is not a blog for friends, its for other game mechanic geeks like me. What I did was open up the blog to be search-able on Google, and I have asked some other game blogs to link to me to get the traffic I'm looking for. Its also a testbed for my HTML skills.

Speaking of HTML I'm taking a serious web design class now and I have full version of Flash and Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver is the Bomb. It really writes very clean code W3C complaint and it is so easy to work with. I recommend downloading the 30 day trial just to try it out. You will be impressed.

Well I'll throw some more love at this blog later.

Weekend Off

This is my first weekend off that I have not had to request off in... well since high school. I of course spent today doing a great deal of nothing. I did manage to make my way up to Carmax to see if they will by the jalopy and they would but only for 500 bucks. I think I can get 12 or 13 for it on the street.

It has a transmission leak that needs repair, and I just don't want to do it, so I hope there is some car guy out there that does want to do it and wants to buy it.

My brain is officially over flowed, I have more computer stuff in it than I thought was possible. Its crazy ho much I did not know about how the internet works. Thanks to RackSpace I know more than I could ever hop to use and that was just week one, I have three more weeks of training.

Things are going well in family land. Were really short on money right now, but we will hopefully pull out of that soon. Poni has a new project that she is working on, she does at home spas and sells stuff. She also is working as a choreographer for photographer helping pose people and shots.

Summer is winding to a close, so its time the kids started thinkin about going back to school. Which this year is very exciting they will be starting at The Masters school, a private school in nearby San Marcus.

Well, that is all. Hope you all start reading this soon. Laters.

Second Day

I got my computer. I get my very own computer. Its cool.

I got my own desk, my own phone, my own e-mail (jason.kirby@rackspace.com), met my team. There great.

Not much else to say today. Except that I love this job. I got a break today and just found some time to hang with my team and see what they do. It was pretty cool.

Laters!

First Day of School! First Day of Shcool!!!!

So today marked my first day at RackSpace. It was great. I cant begin to tell you how awesome it was because I learned so much my head is still reeling. But I can tell you that they fed us well and that I really get the sense of being a part of something with RackSpace. Like were actually trying to build something not just sell something. The team is by far the best part. I must have me 30 some people today, may of then were HR and trainers but many were just people I bumped into. It was amazing how cool they all were. I one point I got lost (easy to do mind you) and just asked someone for direction. It was great, they were like instant friends more than willing to help out and not afraid to welcome me to the team. Pretty awesome culture for 2500 employees.

So this is the new me and its gonna be great. Also, I got home for dinner - that was awesome!

Ahh

3 weeks off from work, that should just about do it for not working. I begin the new job on Monday. I will once again be gainfully employed and there will be money arriving into bank accounts soon. It turns out that you still have to pay your bills even when you decided to take a non paid leave of absence...well you learn something every day!

So Monday I officially become a Racker! (just added that to the Firefox dictionary) That is what RackSpace calls their employees and I'm proud to bear the title. Better than at Mattress Firm where we jokingly referred to ourselves as MFers.

So RackSpace pays well and they love referrals; so if any of you in Omaha; or elsewhere, want to move to SA; call me I'll get you in touch with a recruiter (plus if you get hired I could win a Mini Cooper).

The fam is well. Poni's dad is still very sick but getting better. If you want updates there is a CarePage so email her and she can add you to the list.

I spent all of yesterday with the kids doing nothing but cleaning Natalie and Summer's room. It looks amazing, they worked really hard and it was worth it. They love it too.

D&D is still great, I run two games a week now, one on Tuesday (but that is having a rocky start) and one on Sunday. Sunday group is taking on The Temple of Elemental Evil; its like the 6th time I've run this adventure, but now its in 4E.

Make sure that you check out my other Blogs: Shades of Heroes and Pirate Ninja's Avast to get the latest on all things D&D