You know…I sometimes wonder if I’m setting myself up for something later in my adult life. I wonder this because, well, I have a lot of stress now in my life…not the usual college stress. I mean, I’m delivering projects for my place on employment, consulting people on computers, etc etc. It’s crazy. Also, with all this, I’m still learning stuff–cause lets face it, I’m not a know-it-all, yet .

Today and a partial amount of yesterday I spent configuring a server for my company. It was kinda weird because it was my first time setting up a IIS, PHP and MySQL server. All of those things have to work together for my application to work. Well, today, after many trials and errors, I finally got the server up and running. It is querying data and doing what it should…but it shouldn’t have taken me that long to get the server up. But…I have to realize that everything is a learning experience, even if you already know a considerable portion of what you may be doing.

But back to the stress thing. This project has taken a considerable portion of my time and energy to get off the ground. It’s my first delve into the corporate world and application of well, what I’m going to school for, Information Sciences. It’s been fun so far. I guess I should be careful because I have had many other application experiences within my chosen field…this is just the first one with an application being built. But the stress of deadlines and compliance within regulated guidelines is almost killing me. This has been causing me a lot of stress. Luckily I have a few people at my company that are helping me out and showing me the way. For those of you that read this, if you’re interested in my little side project–my online resume.

The one question I have is this. I deal with a lot of stress now…is it simply going to increae until I buckle under that weight -or- am I experiencing a great deal of the stress now and won’t get all that much added on later (read: after college)?

I swear to God this place should be considered a little city beside Pittsburgh. It’s just awesome. I’m sitting down here at Crazy Mocha–10 o’clock at night and the place is bustling…EVERYONE is out! I guess it is really nice to see because southside is a good place to hang out…just a matter of getting people back here.

Gonna finish eating my sandwich now and observing the ever beautiful southside culture!

I worked 16 hours two days ago, and then 14 yesterday (leading into this morning)…16 FREAKING HOURS. It is a whole bunch of work for an application I’m writing.

Ok, now off the quick rant. The company I work for has been keeping me rather busy lately with all the buzz over an application I’m writing for them. It is really a great experience to go through the iterative process of software design and implementation. The application I’m writing is a fully automated web application that integrates the users training into one main area. It allows them to complete their training online without have to attend mass meetings to get training. Plus, they can do the training when they want and whereever they may be. All in all a great experience and a great resume addition.

As for other things, I can’t wait to get to the beach…it’s just been too long in the coming. And…I need some rest…I’ve been working way too much lately….time to go do some reading.

As I sit here and enjoy a nice round of Grey Goose on the rocks I kinda fall into a half-way drunken pondering of why I enjoy the finer things in life. That is, do I acquire the taste from trying to be like others, or, do I simply stumble upon things…trying them out. Well in my mind it is somewhat a combination of both.

You see, I’ve learned some of my tastes from others…such as my Dad letting me try a taste of Stolichnaya for the first time. I remember after that point (and he may have said this in a somewhat intoxicated rant) that he said it would always be good to search out the finer things in life and learn about them…the drinking of fine liquors for instance.

But I’ve also stumbled across other things on my own…such as ordered Calamari. Not realizing what it was, I tried it and loved it, and consequently moved onto other foods in the process.

However, most of the things that I’ve learned to acquire a taste/liking for have mostly come from observing someone else, such as my Dad…and somewhat modeling after him. As you can see, I’ve moved that taste from Stoli to the better stuff, Grey Goose. Some might consider it a more refined taste…and maybe that’s what I’m subconsciously trying to do…refine my tastes.

Everytime that I sit down and use the mac and mac os, I have feelings of elation everytime…I just can’t get over how nice it is to use the system. With my life being completely centered around computers, the mac has made things so much easier and fun!