an assement.

I'm typing this on my new laptop which will eventually go to my mom. I purchased it off ebay (item link) about a week ago for $616 not too shabby. It came perfectly packaged even with an restore cd and drivers. Kudos to my seller. I was very impressed with its condition, I could have sworn it was new by its look, no scratches dead pixels or anything. And all though the onboard graphics card is by no means meant for gaming. I didn't buy this for gaming.

I really love this laptop for its nice tactile feel while typing, and the very bright and easy display.
my initial thoughts when I picked up out of the box was "wow! 6.7 pound laptop?". My previous laptops although gaming laptops were not exactly meant for laps. Running very hot, I always had to use a table. This laptops runs cool and quiet, they way it should. I guess I upgraded too. SATA hard drive for faster drives seeks, and Centrino Duo. Everything in me wants to run a linux only laptop. I've been wanting to it for the longest time. I even downloaded Slackware Linux 12.0, but after downloading, I couldn't see myself switching. I'll try VMWare and see hot it goes. But enough about the laptop.

I'm going my third WTI. For the most part I'll gone the The end of march and mid to late april.
It is also where almost all job functions have been replaced by something new. In short I ran and support the Back end of WAN Link and provided LAN assistance. Running tactical fiber to various outposts. As my superiors are still trying to figure out our role. I'm hoping to actually skate by this operation. (Read kick back and relax). I just know all to well the units taking over my job are going to screw it up and ending calling us during the most critical time to fix everything for them. As the saying goes. Roll with the punches.

The wife you ask? I dunno were good. Hoping to attend the renaissance fair in Yuma. This saturday. I've never been to one, it may weird who knows. She stays at home and cooks, I go to work. Although the issue was brought up on many occassions. By the looks she wants to stay home and be a housewife. Fine by me. Although I don't make much in the military I still manage to make it by. Some people ask me about my finances and ask me if I save. Usually I tell them no. If your asking tomorrow do I have a few hundred bucks to save my skin. Maybe. Anything over a thousand? Nah. I have a long term Thrift Saving Plan which 10 percent of income goes. But since I don't ever touch it, I hardly ever consider it my savings, at least immediate.

Education: Well I'm hoping to start my associates degree with Davenport University. I'm going for an Associates Degree in Computer Security, and while I'd rather prefer one in Networking Technology, the Security degree is the only one I'd intresting that is 100 percent online. I'll probably end up double majoring and moving on to a Bachelors in computer science.

So I end up purchasing an R4 (link for more details.) 35 bucks per unit and 16 dollars for a 2 GB Micro SD card I got one for my sister and my wife. Its awesome I can run homebrew applications and I download NDS Roms (read:games) for my Nintendo DS. Lots of fun and I save money. I'm compiling a list a games before I ship to my sister, so she'll have to wait.

My current task. I'm writing a my first white paper. as defined on wikipedia.
A white paper is an authoritative report. White papers are used to educate customers, collect leads for a company, or help people make decisions. They can also be a government report outlining policy.

I am sure glad I took that English 100: Introduction to Composition class through Arizona Western College. (Speaking of which I still haven't gotten my grade from.) I've always been terrible at writing...

My cat Tom

A rescue cat from the humane society of Yuma, Tom is nine months. A happy, lazy, male cat. He came neutered and is litter box trained. One the great features about tom is he is leashed trained. Yes, that's right Tom, goes outside on cat harness and leash for walks. The thing about walking cats, they walk you, not the other way around. Unlike dogs. It is easier to go where the cat wants to go, of course with some restrictions. Tom has been me since October.