Lunchtime!

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DISCLAIMER: this blog is mine & mine alone. It bears no reflection on my friends, family, or place of employment.

Part I
It's a bee-you-tiful day in Roanoke, VA so I'm taking advantage of the weather & getting outta the office for an hour or so. Working in what equates to a subterranean bunker sucks. No windows, no skylights, nothing. Fluorescent light, filtered air, yuck. So when the opportunity presents itself to get outside, one must take it! Hence I'm sitting in a park in downtown Roanoke taking advantage of free wi-fi access & the ability to be mobile.

Part II
Extremes in the workplace routine bite. Being either way too damn busy to even think of breathing, or being sooo bored that you find yourself clock watching - either diametric opposite stinks. Where's a happy medium when you need it? Being at the tail-end of a project gives me a chance to reflect on what I actually did, what we as a team accomplished, all of which is fine & good. But the subsequent down-time - while nice in a sense - can only last so long. Time to get back to work & reprogram the machine that is the sys admin/programmer analyst in me.

Part III
I apologize for not having much to contribute today, but I felt I needed to make a new entry & at least put something else out there. My brain is pretty empty, and there hasn't been much news-worthy to comment on. The VT (Virginia Tech) incident is a week old, and it seems that most of the world outside of south-central/south-west VA has gone on to the next story, awaiting "the next big thing." I guess - to some degree - that includes me. I feel horrible for those that were affected by the shootings - any VT Alumni, friends, family, or friends & family of the victims. The lives of those touched will never be the same, and as much as there's an air of resliency & perserverance, as much as everyone will try to imitate a return to normalcy, there's now a new, ugly, scar to ponder, and a new anniversary to commemorate. My best to everyone in that VT family.

Guess that's it - over & out, aloha, ciao, adios, sayonara for now...peace.