A month and a half ago when I last updated I told you that I was making trips all over the country in search of a job. Well finally I am going to officially announce what many of you have already heard or already guessed. I have accepted a job offer in Fort Lauderdale Florida and will be moving there this March to start my post-collegiate life.
I had the busiest semester of my school career this past fall and while it's been over for a few weeks I feel like I'm still recovering from it. Of course now my last semester has begun - no rest for the weary no doubt. I must admit though I will be very happy when this school thing is over. I guess when you spend nearly five years doing something it is nice to finally see it to completion.
With all the changes going on in my personal life there has also been an interesting change that has just taken place in the online world. I am closing down this blog, so to speak, in light of joining up with Stretch and Ohyo in a combined blog over at zomgee.com. It has been a process in the making and the general idea is that we will discuss topics more often and of different categories thereby bringing all our readers together to see something new and interesting. Head over there and get started by subscribing if you would, I personally think it is going to be quite nice once it gets rolling and frankly is right now.
As for this site, I'm still not sure what I'll be doing with it. My initial thought would be to close it down completely but I think I may keep parts of it open so you can read old posts and perhaps if I want to write something of a more personal nature I can put it here instead of on zomgee. My other thought is to perhaps finally get that photo gallery open and this would be the place to find it. Very soon I will be changing the main page to include two links, one that heads to zomgee and the other that sends you to the old lotrfanatic.com. Ideas and suggestions are always welcome...enjoy.
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HT, I had heard before, but thanks for making an official announcement. Kathy and I would like to get together with you if possible.
Yo, HT! I'm glad to hear the news. Hope to see you sometime.
Hm, a personal site would be nice to vent, plus the layout/design/graphics of this is site is really cool so I vote keep it... :D
Hope all goes well when the time comes to move!
Early Welcome to Florida!! Hope you like it more than I do, been here all my life....
GL with life/job/etc!!
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Wow...so I just spent the weekend in Florida - turns out its warm and sunny down there. Now off to Texas!
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um, yay!
Hey- didn't get an email update. Broken or spammed... and I don't want to go through my spam folder...
so sorry for your loss.
I didn't get the email update either, btw, and I actually do go through my spam...
Ah, so someone HAS done something kinda similar... But I bet Tom Wahls didn't come up with the idea waiting for food to thaw on an empty stomach... :D
No, not the town of Chili... the title said "Chili flavored..." so I don't see how something can be flavored like a place... to places have flavour...? @_@
:]
actually in florida its a little chilly.. i love it.
its prolly.. 60 something degrees
feels nice!
Dude... you need to update again... I'm your wife and I still think you need to update your blog. How else am I suppose to know what's really going on in your life?
~Sugar
That's Bad you guys need counseling!
Yes, you need to update! ...and not having to fill out the comment form each time would be nice, but no hurry... :)
I have chosen you to be Ron Stoppable, come see my site to find out why!
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A few days ago I sat on a picnic table at camp and thought back on years past and the effect they've had on myself and those around me. I looked and saw campers that didn't recognize me, a camp that had changed such that I didn't recognize some of it, yet in the end I think it was really me that changed. I grew up, I moved on, and camp just kept on doing what it had always done and hopefully what it always will.
Never has this been more evident to me than this past weekend. Sure I had returned to camp before, my thoughts have been brought back to camp many times before, but never have I really noticed how much I've changed. This weekend was more meaningful than any other because of what had taken place in the preceding week. Monday of course I grew a year older, but more significantly I took the next step toward the rest of my life.
Wednesday afternoon I perused through dozens of company displays at a RIT career fair and applied for quite a few positions. I was given four interviews over the span of the next two days and they all went absolutely splendidly, including a job offer from one company on Friday morning after being absolutely grilled in my computer knowledge. I have since received several promising e-mails from companies and it looks like I'm in store for a few more job offers before a final decision is made and its both exciting and daunting. In a few weeks I will be traveling to Fort Lauderdale Florida to be wined and dined by the employer that offered me the job.
Will I take it? Maybe. Time will tell and I'm excited about all the possibilities but one thing is for sure I won't be the same anymore. I'm going to be off working for an employer full-time, with a family, going through life and there will be no going back to the free spirited days of college life. At the same time I can't help but be relieved that college life is over. Sure I'll have lots of work to do in the 'real world' but I welcome that compared to constantly having to do contrived examples to prove to a professor some measure of true knowledge. There will be no going back to those days of camp, or these days as a worry free student though and that is a change for sure, and one we must all make it is just an interesting thing to be the first one in my circle of friends to be making the change and perhaps leaving them all behind. The right position for me is out there - now its just a matter of having the discernment to find it and to see it when its before me.
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I can, in no way, support any decision of yours to take a job more than 20 miles outside of Rochester.
:P
Naw... I'm just kidding. I'll support you, I'll just have to not like you anymore.
wow, Dan, that sure is harsh... X.x
Anyways, good luck to you as you begin this new era of life! I'm sure you'll do just fine now that the bulk of your training is behind you! I'll be praying that God will bless you with the discernment you need. :)
It has been a long time. I wish I had known that so many ppl were going to be at camp last weekend. Life has been so hectic I really needed a weekend to just relax. Had I know so many would have been there I would have made more of an effort. Hope things are going well with you. Sounds like a lot of upcoming decisions. Oh, and I think I won't mention anything to him about you. Funny how we grow and change over the years isn't it? That conversation seems a life time ago...still, I think I'll leave your name out of any conversations =D
take the job in FL man!
Hey, it was great to see you grace camp with your presence this past weekend. :-p But, seriously, I do hope everything goes well with the choosing of a job. Enjoy the few last days of the carefree, but enjoy the prospect of a new chapter in life. Good luck with it all.
btw...excluding a few innocent bushes and small plants, I didn't hit anything with my car...yet...:-D
NOOOOO HT....
You make me feel old man. We aren't old yet. We still have so much ahead of us. :( It is a bitter sweet thing leaving old stuff that you love. I am excited for you about what lies ahead for you and Sugar. And..I am going to miss you terribly if I don't ever get to see you. I remember those late night talks out on your picnic table. I really respect you HT.
Wow . . . we're all getting so old. People getting married, getting carreers, moving all over the place . . . the "good old days" are long gone, I'm afraid. I suppose we'll just have to make good new days.
HEY tom!.. i was just thinking about you and sugar the other day. i dont really have time to read your post. im about to leave to go to brazil.
just wanted to ask. when are you coming to florida?.. where at?.. and what for?
maybe.. we will see eachother?
cya s.t.3
shanna
How crazy is the fact that we could all be leaving good ol' Rochester at the same time! I remember feeling those same things when I went back to Practical the first time....oh the fun I had as a college student and now I have 8 weeks til baby #3? It can be downright scary. I had no idea any of this would happen when I left college. However I will say it is great fun finding our what God has in store for you around the next corner..whether big or small it all fits into a bigger picture!
I've been feeling the same way lately... everyone has graduated or moved on to grad school, and undeniably life will never be the same again, ever, and that's a little disconcerting.
Nice to know someone else is having those thoughts too :-)