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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

For the last few weeks, a plot for a conspiracy story has been brewing in my head.

Last night, I tried out my story idea with one of my friends. He told me that my story would probably make a good movie and that he was insterested in taking a stab at writing the screenplay for it. So, if you see a movie about hackers manipulating the stock market to destroy a country, check the credits and see if my name shows up. (I'm not going to post details about my story here since I know there are people out there who would steal it without thinking twice). For the mean time, I will work on writing it as a novel and see how that goes.

Today at work, I pitched my idea for our company's image commercial. So far, the boss thinks there's potential and doesn't hate it. Other people that I soft-pitched too seem receptive and gave positive comments, but I wasn't sure if they were just trying to be nice. So now, it goes up to the big boss for his critique. If it survives that gauntlet and it gets approved for production, then I may actually have just put together my first television commercial. I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope it goes through with little revision.

Lately, my brain has been buzzing with way too many ideas. I've been having a hard time falling asleep and I usually end up writing or drawing things in my notebook, or playing puzzle-type video games. I have also been refurbishing a couple of old video game consoles for fun, which usually leads me to lose track of time and go on without much sleep.

So something is definately making my brain synapses go into over drive. Whatever is going on, I just hope I don't burn out.

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Clarity
Sunday, September 14, 2008

Somewhere between mental exhaustion and sleep, I found a moment of clarity. In this moment, I realized that you can not escape your past. You can try to keep running away from it until it seem like you have lost it, but the truth is that you’re only a few paces ahead of it for a little while. The past will catch up with you. There is no doubt of it.

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Becoming Vested and Beyond
Monday, June 09, 2008

Oh how time flies! In about a month, I'll be one year away from being vested with my current employer. With that in mind, I feel like I'm staring down a long winding road where I can see that there's definitely a fork in the road up far ahead.

This means, that I have roughly a year to decide if I want to stay or break away to find a greener pasture. Don't get me wrong. I don't dislike my current job. It's a fun place to work at and the people are nice. I can see myself staying there for awhile, but, I'm just worried that I'm not growing there.

The industry that my company is in is notoriously known for being a sloth when it comes to adopting current technology let alone new ones. I'm just worried that I'm falling behind and that I'll end up being a washed-up code monkey before I'm 40.

There had been many times when I was offered the opportunity to work somewhere else that seemed very exciting, but I decided that I would be prudent and stick it out until I become vested. I have no regrets.

So now here I am staring at the loaded barrel of a life changing moment set to go off in a little over twelve months. Will I stay or will I go? I'll have to assess my life in about six months and see how things are going. At that point, I'll know what to do.

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