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On vacation for the last week of the year
Filed Under: Tags: development, Mindshare, plugin, WordPress
Lucky me. Mindshare closes the office doors for the last week of the year. This on top of getting two weeks vacation to take during the year. What a fantastic company to work for. So this week I’m off and getting bored. Sondra’s family came to town and celebrated Christmas. It was short and sweet. They have all left now and Sondra has gone back to work. So for th emost part I’m on my own during the day. Her mom is also home. so I try and spend my time doing things. At the moment I’m sitting at Mozart’s Coffer house on Lake Austin Blvd. http://www.mozartscoffee.com/. I took a turn walking around Town Lake trying to drop some weight for the new year and before we go on our cruise in Jan. 2007. continue...
Farewell Sam!
Filed Under: Tags: farewell, Mindshare, Mother Egan's, Samantha, trivia
Today is the last day at Mindshare for a fellow coworker. Samantha Slaughter-Mason came to Mindshare just some 11 months ago by way of Alaska, Oregon and Los Angeles. She was to be our office Manager and spearheaded the office move that took place just this past June 2006. continue...
Missed Feb…and March
Well seems two whole months have gone by without any updates to this blog. So let’s see if I can recap things. continue...
Wow! Has it really been a year since my last BLOG post?
Well I guess it has been a year. A lot has changed and a lot has remained the same. Time to give you all an update on what is going on in my life. First the biggest thing. I left my job at SYSCO Foods. Gave notice the first Tuesday of 2005. This way I get full payment of vacation for the year. Three full weeks paid. It all went into my car. Well $1800 of it anyway. Left to be a full-time web developer with Mindshare Mindshare Interactive Campaigns, a company based in D.C that creates web pages for non-profits (that is a very simplistic definition, sorry). Had to spend the last three weeks of Jan. 2005 in D.C for training. Along with the snow and cold. Was nice. Had to stay in a garage apartment of someone from the office. Seems the company could not afford a hotel for me for the entire time. I’ve grown to really like the job. At first I had conflict mainly because I was not as well versed on the technical support end and wanted to really concentrate on PHP development. Then got into support of some other sites not written in PHP. I guess maybe I’ve come to be more acceptable of the job over time. When I started in Jan there was only one other person in Austin, Bethany. We were together in an office downtown. We’ve since expanded to seven total in the Austin office. We had to move North out of downtown. It’s a drive in the morning with traffic but still better than my drive to Round Rock for SYSCO. And I do get to work with 6 very nice ladies. Oh, did I mention I was the only male in the office and expected to do the heavy lifting like change the Ozarks water bottle twice a week etc. Still not a bad place to work. continue...
