Well, shit....
Oct. 19th, 2023 06:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
devilsrobotI guess it's been six years since I last posted here? I had honestly forgotten that Dreamwidth even existed until sholanda reminded me. (insert laughing/crying emoji)
I guess I could catch you up on what I've been up to since then, but I'll spare you and me both. Let it suffice to say that I'm in a good place, generally.
I'm into my 5th year now as a cybersecurity specialist and I'm only just now starting to feel like I'm pretty good at what I do. I've given up some unhealthy habits and picked up some newer, healthier ones. I'm spending my free time doing the things that I love. I have an amazing wife and three mediocre dogs (that I still love in spite of their general bark-iness). I want for almost nothing anymore -- largely because I'm happy with everything that life has given me. It's not a bad place to be, even though it's taken me 48 years to get here.
I'm going to try to make a concreted effort to post here a little more frequently. Honest.
So.... This week.... Not a bad week so far.
I had my Amateur Radio Club meeting (I got a ham radio license about a month ago) and I'm literally the youngest guy in the club (average age is around 70, I think).
I'm going for my annual physical today and I'm hopeful that my doctor won't chastise me -- I've dropped about 25 pounds to return to a healthy(ier) weight.
Tonight we're going to the local Halloween street fair thing and I finally get to try out the Ghostbusters costume that I spent the better part of this year assembling.
Tomorrow night we're going to see Jackson Browne with my folks. I have zero interest in Jackson Browne, but the tickets were free and I'm trying to do more things with my parents while we still can.
Next week, Carly and I have tickets to the LA Opera to see the Barber of Seville. We went to the opera for the first time last year and saw Aida and now we're both pretty hooked. We're also taking my parents (their first time at the opera) so I'm hopeful that they'll enjoy it as much as we did/do.
And that's about It for now. Hope you're all doing well!
sholanda reminded me. (insert laughing/crying emoji)I guess I could catch you up on what I've been up to since then, but I'll spare you and me both. Let it suffice to say that I'm in a good place, generally.
I'm into my 5th year now as a cybersecurity specialist and I'm only just now starting to feel like I'm pretty good at what I do. I've given up some unhealthy habits and picked up some newer, healthier ones. I'm spending my free time doing the things that I love. I have an amazing wife and three mediocre dogs (that I still love in spite of their general bark-iness). I want for almost nothing anymore -- largely because I'm happy with everything that life has given me. It's not a bad place to be, even though it's taken me 48 years to get here.
I'm going to try to make a concreted effort to post here a little more frequently. Honest.
So.... This week.... Not a bad week so far.
I had my Amateur Radio Club meeting (I got a ham radio license about a month ago) and I'm literally the youngest guy in the club (average age is around 70, I think).
I'm going for my annual physical today and I'm hopeful that my doctor won't chastise me -- I've dropped about 25 pounds to return to a healthy(ier) weight.
Tonight we're going to the local Halloween street fair thing and I finally get to try out the Ghostbusters costume that I spent the better part of this year assembling.
Tomorrow night we're going to see Jackson Browne with my folks. I have zero interest in Jackson Browne, but the tickets were free and I'm trying to do more things with my parents while we still can.
Next week, Carly and I have tickets to the LA Opera to see the Barber of Seville. We went to the opera for the first time last year and saw Aida and now we're both pretty hooked. We're also taking my parents (their first time at the opera) so I'm hopeful that they'll enjoy it as much as we did/do.
And that's about It for now. Hope you're all doing well!
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Date: 2023-10-20 01:04 pm (UTC)Aida was my first opera, too!
Ham radio sounds cool, do you get on and talk to people in other places? Would it come in handy in a disaster?
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Date: 2023-10-20 05:21 pm (UTC)Right now I have the lowest level of amateur radio license (Technician) so I'm somewhat limited in what I can do -- both by my license and by the type of radio that I have. My radio is a small, handheld walkie-talkie (HT) type radio that operates at 5W of power and can maybe transmit 3 or so miles based on geography. I can also use that radio to talk on local repeaters (basically rebroadcasting towers) that open that up to about 30 miles or so. This is great, generally, but can be limiting in a natural disaster type situation (because those towers need power to work). If you have a "base station" type radio that sits on your desk (and is generally more powerful and can transmit much further than a handheld), you'll need something to power it. Mobile radios like mine or those that work from your vehicle aren't as limited by power options, but they're also less powerful when it comes to transmitting. So.... They can be useful, but it really just depends on the situation. :)