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Help Desk Confessionals

I'm a systems administrator who provides tech support, data analysis, and report generation for about 300 users. No support staff. No other help. Just me.

Tagged, Again

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Two Parts of Your Heritage
1. Chinese - the beefier northern breed.
2. Someone had mentoned that there may be some Mongolian blood in the family. Cool!

Two Things That Scare You
1. Something bad happen to my wife or my two children.
2. Bad drivers, and there are way too many of them.

Two fears you overcame
1. Public speaking. Twelve years of teaching aerobics did the trick.
2. Dating and Relatonship - for the longest time I couldn't.

Two of Your Everyday Essentials
1. Internet - how did we ever live without it??
2. Diet Coke (with Lime)

Two things you are Wearing Right Now
1. Short sleeve button down shirt. No tie.
2. Dark green cargo pants.

Two things you wore too much this year
1. My black FILA workout shoes
2. The same pair of black leather shoes that I wear in the office every day.

This year's Favorite Bands or Musical Artists
1. Kelly Clarkson. (Never would have thought...)
2. Rolling Stones, who put out their best album in years.

Two Things You Want in a Relationship
1. Caring.
2. Companionship

Two of your favorite Movies of the Year
1. Mr & Mrs Smith. I wish all of us married couples could fight like that once in awhile. Divorce rate would drop.
2. Star Wars Revenge of the Sith - the light saber dual between Anakin and Obi-wan made up for the stupid dialog in the movie.

Best movies of all time
1. The Sting - everything I like in a movie, this one has.
2. My Cousin Vinny (What's a yout?)

Two things You hate
1. Traffic in L.A.
2. Deadlines.

Two of Your Favorite Hobbies
1. Program my own radio station and webcast it.
2. Road trippin- even though I haven't done that for awhile.

Two things you learned this year
1. Two kids = four times the work.
2. My wife is a superwoman.

Two Accomplishments You are Proud of
1. Being a daddy.
2. Worked for the county for 15 years. My first and only job.

Two Things You Want Really Badly
1. A promotion.
2. Free time.

Two places you went this year.
1. Delivery room where my daughter was born.
2. My mom's house - and stayed there for 2 1/2 months while waiting for the new house to complete.

Two Places You Want to go on Vacation
1. San Francisco
2. Hong Kong

Two Things You Want to Do Before You Die
1. Walk my 9-mo daughter down the aisle in her wedding someday.
2. Walk the Great Wall with my wife.

Two Ways that you are a Stereotypical Example of your Gender
1. I'm a gadget freak
2. My ideal fall Saturday afternoon is eating chips and salsa while watching college football.

Two things that make you stand out.
1. Good with numbers.
2. Never get lost.

Two Things You Normally Wouldn't Admit
1. I spent way too much time goofing off at work.
2. Sometimes I miss the freedom of being single.

Two Goals for the New Year
1. Be on time more often.
2. No speeding tickets.
posted by Carl from L.A., 4:00 PM | link | 2 comments |

Resolutions

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

I've never been the kind of person who makes new year resolutions, but 2005 has been such a trying year, especially the second half of the year, that I'm trying to make this year different from the last one.

How different? You just read it.
posted by Carl from L.A., 4:16 PM | link | 0 comments |