Jamey Wright - Tech Pages

Again, I have been terrible at posting here on a regular basis.  I started to write something the other night but I could not come up with anything to write about, or at least anything I felt was appropriate to say in public.  That's the way life goes I guess. Work has been really busy lately.  We have been working on this huge project that was started in 2004.  To me, it is a pain in the ass.  My boss calls it "welfare for lawyers".  This is a FCC (read Federal Govt) mandated thing and it is being paid for by Sprint (Nextel) wireless.  I won't bore anyone with the details unless they really want to know.  In a nutshell, it involves reprogramming a bunch of police, fire, and ems radios.  From 2004 until the middle of this year, the whole project was just an exercise in killing trees and other administrative tasks.  The last month or so we have finally started actually doing the work and it has been a pain.  The contract project m...

Yep, Fall is here.  I am not so sure that I am really ready for it but it doesn't matter, there's not a thing in the world I can do about it.  Well, I could move to some tropical island but that comes with its own set of issues.  Today was a beautiful day.  The biggest complaint I had with it though was the temperature.  70-75 degrees is nice.  65 is a little cool for me. To be truthful, I dislike cold weather very much.  I guess I'm getting old because the cold weather and even approaching cold fronts make my bone and joints hurt.  Such is life though.  If the weather would stay like this from now until Spring it would suit me fine but alas, I know winter is approaching.  I have heard all kinds of nasty rumors about what kind of winter we will have here.  I have heard that it will be worse than last year.  If so, that really sucks because last year was horrible with all of the snow we had.  I hope they are wrong.  E...

Chicken soup?  Yes, chicken soup.  To be more specific, homemade chicken noodle soup, made by me.  Did it make me feel any better?  Nope.  Today has just been one of those days.  I woke up around 9:30 this morning but my body really wanted to sleep more.  It didn't matter.  My mind was wide awake and there was no point in trying to sleep any more.  It was the start of such a "wonderful" day. I got up and put on enough clothes to at least not be embarrassed if someone knocked on the door.  I immediately went to the kitchen and started to make breakfast and unload the dishwasher.  I can multitask so doing both isn't a big deal.  It was then that I discovered some of my muscles were complaining about yesterday's activities.  Yesterday, we helped my cousin Jennifer and her hubby Brandon move things back into their house.  Their house sustained quite a bit of damage when the EF-5 tornado came through Harvest, Al on Apr...

Blah Blah Blah!!!  That is exactly what I feel like a lot of people are saying the last few days, especially at work.  We have this huge project going on and it is probably going to last until Christmas.  I am tired of it already.  Nothing like being pulled 20 different directions every day.  At least I have a job and (knocking on wood) it is pretty secure. Nothing like not posting on here for a couple of weeks... but that's life.  I don't remember if I mentioned it in an earlier post but my surgeon told me I need to lose 30-35 pounds before he does the surgery.  I basically had about 7 months to do it.  I'm in the second month and have already lost around 15 pounds.  The cool thing is that I can tell those 15 pounds are gone.  I'm still not where I should be by a long shot... but it is progress.  It is hard to do though.  The thing that has made the biggest difference for me has been cutting out sugar and carbs.  I have...

Dang it... me and this writing thing are just not getting along here recently.  I had really intended to write more often on here.  I really can't explain why I don't seem to have time to write like I want to.  Some nights I sit here and stare at the monitor, almost in a trance.  Other nights I sit and listen to the ham radio bands and stare at the computer monitor... Again, in a trance.  Some nights, I literally fall asleep at the desk.  Of course, there are also the nights spent at various football fields around North Alabama; Mondays and Fridays are game days.  And of course there are the seemingly endless doctor visits.  Doctor visits...  I think I have about worn out my insurance card in the last month.  Let's see... My doctor and nutritionist visits for the bariatric weight loss program, Corey's appointments for knee surgery follow-up, Corey's physical therapy appointments, Corey's visit to the ophthalmologist and subsequent glas...

OK, not really but the boys are not overly impressed with the meal planning guide I brought home today.  That's OK, I HATE their choice of music tonight so I have donned the headphones and have massive amounts of Joe Satriani queued up in Windows Media Player.  For the moment, I think we're even. Today, I met with the program nutritionist at Alabama Surgical Associates.  He was a really nice guy but at the same time kinda weird too.  He had the attire and appearance of a real geek.  I had pretty much convinced myself he was until he shook my hand.  I thought he was trying to break it.  Good grief he had an iron grip.  I believe that the geeky look is merely a cover.  I think under those hideous clothes he is wearing a cape and other standard-issue super-hero attire.  It's the only explanation I have.  Anyway, he did a test using a weird machine but it was able to provide some numbers that detail the make-up of the body so it was n...

After Tuesday's post, I talked with some friends and got lots of encouragement.  You know who you are and thank you.  I'm still not totally de-stressed nor are any of the things that were bothering me really any better but I have just kind of pushed it aside and am just not letting it bother me right now.  I'm sure that sometime in the future it will rear its ugly head again but for now I'm just dealing with it day by day.  We kicked off the final phase of a big project this week at work.  I had almost decided it would never be completed but after 8 years it is finally going to be done!!  Of course it means more crap piled on me from now until December that I really don't need but oh well.  Now if I can just get a few things caught up I'll have it made.  Unfortunately, with one of my projects the parts I need and ordered are back-ordered and the first ones won't be in until the middle of October and the others won't be in until sometime in Novem...