Archive for March, 2008
Sometimes Wordpress groks my nogging. I wrote the lst two posts with the free blog editor Qumana (see link below) and it looked fine. I went to my actual page to change a couple of missed typos, and bammo! Every sentence is smoshed together.
1 giant paragraph. Then I have to go back, center align the darn thing and it’s "good". I should look into other blogging platforms maybe, or update the version I have.
I will be tweeking this page a bit, to reflect my changes. I am going to try to post more about school and career change.
A kilted man in a pants wearing Tech school. I also think once my "lease" on the domain name comes up, I will switch to a free service.
Hope this looks good………
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I am really excited by this goal of school and a tech career. I can see a good future on the horizon. It makes me happy.
I am a worrier. Got it from my folks. They worry. I worry. I am getting better.
The current worries that I am dealing with are I won’t fit in to the world of IT business. Too many years as a cook, and a blue collar Joe. I won’t fit in.
Second worry, school. Math mostly. I wasn’t the best math student around. That is one reason I drifted away from programming back then. (around 1992 type programming.) I took the "easy" way out.
Third worry, passing school.
I am worrying about things that won’t happen for 6 to 8 months, plus some.
I have friends in IT, and I get along with them great. I share their jokes. I have peeked into the tech world via different blogs and podcast’s (thank you Cranky Geek’s & Technology Bytes, Live Granades), and I know I will fit in fine. I bet I will fit in better there than anywhere else.
Like finding Seattle after living in Faribault Minnesota. Ok, that worry has been crushed.
Math, yes it will be hard. On the plus side, my super smart and beautiful wife is a Math Theory & Economics Major. I have a personal tutor. I also have a goal. I didn’t have goals in High School. Math will be hard, buck up and deal. 2nd worry crushed.
Passing school. Besides my wify, I have family in IT, friends in IT and Engineering, blogger IT & Scientists friends and Goals. People who will more than likely be happy to help. Yes, it will be hard, but like the Math worry, I can do it.
3 worries crushed under rational thinking. Now, once a week I should come back and read this post. As a reminder.
I can do it.
(note from KE, i should look into an English course as well. this post was badly written, so I went and cleaned it up a bit.)
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I have to be careful of Envy. Once I decided to change my life with a moving into a different career, I have been finding myself looking at other people’s stuff and thinking “why don’t I have that?”
I feel envious of other people with nice cars, multiple bedrooms houses, and having to cut back on monthly clothing expenses. (I heard that last one on NPR, talking about budgeting, the expert said some people should cut their $300 a month clothing expenses. $300! I don’t think I spend that a year!)
I must often remind myself why I am setting out to do what I am going to do. Its for my family, and myself. Not to get a big fancy SUV. Not to get a big huge house. I am doing it so my children can have one parent around. To pay bills, to improve my house. To sock some money away for a rainy day.
Money is nice, it helps make things more comfortable. When used properly. I don’t like feeling this feeling of envy. Who does? It drains me.
Un motivates me.
It leads me to feel I will always be the dirty kitchen dog, the blue collar worker, living week to week, paycheck to paycheck. So, I write this post to remind myself why I am doing it. Why I WANT to do it.
I can’t get a good livable paycheck with out going to school, or doing constructing. (by the by, I don’t want to do construction.)
I want my Son to have a good growing up. Not to be spoiled. (not very) I can not waste my time be envious. Nope, can’t do it.
I will be better than that.
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It snowed today, March 28th 2008 in Seattle. Kinda nutty if you ask me.
I have been busy getting ideas and thoughts about school together. I am applying for some scholarships, and will be looking into grants.
Anybody reading this in tech and need a rookie, novice, but hard working guy on their team? Can’t move from Seattle, but I could telecommute via my Mac.
I have been reading a lot on the bus lately, and I guess my next books should be in some way Techy.
This post is kind of public thought dump. I will spew forth my thoughts, you pick them up and put them into folders ok?
Until later…….
ke
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Right I bet I didn’t tell you. I closed down the This Kilted Life site. I still have the domain, and the podcast on my Mac, but I cleared out the stuff on the web. I just don’t have time for it and it was always in my view getting in the way of doing other stuff. I decided that instead of thinking about it, and not doing anything I would just dump it and not think about it anymore.
That seem like a long response. Do you every watch you fingers as you type? Looks kinda cool when you have a good flow going on. Must be getting tired.
Anyways, If you want copies of my show, just email me and I’ll send them somehow.
Until we meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when……
KE
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Had a nice long chat with my brother in law about what I am thinking about doing. I just need to focus my thoughts a bit more, and come up with some plans. Also I am contacting a couple of friends who might help me out as well with advice and possibly more connections.
This is fun in a kinda "oh man change is coming" kinda way.
If only the job I like paid better. Oh well, life goes on.
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I have finally made a plan to better my life. After floating around kitchens and other "odd" jobs, I have set goals.
I know, I know. You saying to your-self, "Our one Kilted Eric is setting….. Goals!" Well, before I tell you what I am plotting, how about I explain why, so everybody is up to speed.
I am married, with a handsome 2 year old boy, and zoo amount of animals. Yes, we are planning to have more children, and if a certain psychic in Ireland has anything to say about it, the next child will be Twin Boys.
So, I am a family man. Like I said at the beginning, I have worked 10 years in kitchens, and a few other "odd" jobs. One thing I have learned is, making a living for a family in a kitchen is hard. Very hard. I want (and she wants too) my wife to be able to be a stay at home mom for our children. After doing the stay at home dad thing when the Boy was first born, I understand it REALLY IS A FULL TIME JOB AND ANY MAN THAT GETS ON HIS WIFE’S CASE ABOUT IT NEEDS TO BE WHACKED IN THE HEAD BY SOMETHING HEAVY. Sorry about that, didn’t mean to shout.
Any how, what I need to do this is, drum roll please, money. I try to live a life not overly dependent on cash, but there are something’s that you can’t get with a smile and a joke (unless your a comedian, ha ha). Thus, I have a goal, to work at a job that pays me enough money to allow wify dearest to be a great stay at home mom, pay our mortgage bills and have a little left over for a Pizza night once in a while.
Now for the plan, or if your follow (which I am a student of) the GTD (or Getting Things Done) method of doing things, Project: How to archive this goal.
If you know me even a little bit, you have guessed that I am a tad bit of a geek, just a little mind you, some people think I am very hip and cool. (I have realized that those people are geeks too. Humm) I am going to do something with Technology. Computers or programming, or networks, or something. I don’t know that far yet. I am thinking I will go to a school in the Fall for "technology".
I am going to confer with some family, and a couple people I know who do IT work, and get some ideas. So, if you dear reader have any ideas, toss them my way. I could use the help.
I am looking at something in the realm of 1 or 2 year school, probably night classes so I can work during the day. That’s what I have for now, I will keep you posted.
Until we meet again……KE
Now I am testing if one of my Fav apps call Journler (for the mac, wicked wicked cool) will work with Qumana. Lets try it out shall we…..
Humm, didn’t work as well as I wanted it to. Journler opens up Qumana but doesn’t import the writing into the forms. Oh well. Life goes on. I am really liking this app all the same.
As you all know, I need to be posting more, and having a sleek little app like this should (should have put that in bold) help me do just that.
Out for now…. KE
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Need to learn about resizing the phots, but hey. That was really simple.
If your a blogger check out Qumana. Comes in both Mac and windows flavors.
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Well, I’ll be. It works. Humm, how does it handle photos
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