On Saturday I graduated from RIT with Highest Honors, a 4.0 PFOS GPA, a 3.88 overall GPA, and glowing recommendations. This is a complete disaster. For 16 years I have thought, researched, and solved. Now I am expected to do. Bah! As determined a problem solver as I am, I think I will do very well in the real world, and I could use a change of scenery.
I plan on attending Graduate School at RIT. I will valiantly hide from ...er... fight off the real world for another year.
The breakup between Carolyn and I lasted less than a month. We're back together (have been for quite a while now) and things are going very well. We shall be traveling this summer to Bonnaroo and the Outer Banks, NC. I look forward to the trip with great vehemence.
We will have a new house mate in the fall, Dan. He is hyper, idiosyncratic, and knows a quality flogger when he sees one. I am very pleased that he will be joining us.
I'll be spending my summer in Louisville and am looking for a job starting around the 21st of June. I concentrated in networking, system administration, and database design and administration at RIT. I am particularly capable in the areas of network security and forensics, network protocol design and implementation, cryptography, unix system administration, and user interface design. I work best when I can use my varied skill set to synthesize a solution to a problem. If you know of any place that might be able to use my skills, or better yet might have an opening, please let me know.
In January I took a trip to Lake Placid, NY. I met some interesting people, toured a great brewery, went bobsledding on the Olympic Track, and one first prize in a contest about hotel management issues in the Lake Placid area - I was up against people majoring in this. I also danced in a club for 4 hours (my first time really dancing) and got complements, nearly froze to death due to -22 degree weather (-50 wind chill) and a 3/4 mile hike uphill to my hotel, and toured a $3000 a night (and up) resort for the rich and famous. You'll have to ask me the details in person, there is just too much to write here.
PS: Never take a Wegman's Multivitamin before bed, one hour of sleep and you are up feeling like you have 3 pots of coffee in you.