Life Tidbits…

This last month has been quite busy. I’ve been helping my sister-in-law sell items from her store on eBay so she can try to stay above water. I think I did OK last month. I sold about $3500 worth of different items for her. I do have a little bit of an ulterior motive. I have loaned her money so if I help her, she is more likely to be able to pay me back. I kind of enjoy doing the eBay thing. I set up my own account and sold one thing of mine to work through the different things I need to set up. We’ll see how that goes.

I got to take a short vacation last week. I went up to my parent’s cabin with Mona. It was nice to get away from the kids and have some peace and quiet. We never get that at home right now. I may add a couple of pictures later so you all can see what it looks like up there. Had to get back to work as I’m doing an upgrade on our student system at work this next weekend. The week after that will be filled with meetings, then training classes are going to be starting up before school stars at the end of the month. Then things will get really busy

Mona will be starting back to school this fall. She is currently an LPN and wants to work toward becoming an RN. She has some prerequisites to do before she can apply to the nursing program. Money is going to be tight while she goes to school unless she can get a student loan. I’m hoping that will work out because last time she was in school, her student loan was paid off after she worked a year as a nurse. The government has some programs that are supposed to help get more nurses in the workplace. This is also the one case where it is good that we can’t get married so they do not consider my income in regards to financial aid. We pay extra taxes on health benefits, tuition reductions and the fact we can’t file jointly so I figure it is even in the long run

Being so busy, I have actualy done very little gaming in the last month. I did finish Lego Indiana Jones and got back to Ratchet and Clank Tools of Destruction, but really not much of either on my PS3. I have been playing Picross on my DS (puzzle game) primarily before going to bed. EBay has definitely taken up some of my gaming time. Although i have missed out on Socome Twosdays because I have forgotten what day of the week it is. With some new games coming out and new people getting PS3s I am looking forward to more PS3 action in the near future.

Hello world!

Hi, this is J-Mac.

I’m a computer science geek who got my CS degree back in 1989. I’ve been working in computing for about 20 years. Currently my expertise is Oracle programming (Oracle Forms, PL/SQL, SQL, ProC).