Out with the old and in with the new

A friend of mine introduced me to Incredimail last year. Last night while using it I ran across a stationary called Celtic Myst which is brown parchment paper and the default font is "Black Chancery". Well, I immediately fell in love with the font. I think that it looks VERY classy to say the least. LOL.... You may be asking yourself the question "how does one fall in LOVE with a font". Well, I dont have the answer to that but all I do know is that I LIKE it so very much. So, Verdana, it has been fun and we have had a long and fruitful relationship but you are out and your replacement is Black Chancery. My friend Patty also told me that when she created a MS Word document using this font that she was unable to use "apostrophes" while using this font in MS Word but here in blogger it seems to work. I also noticed that this font is not listed in the list of fonts but when I type it in under font choice manually it shows up.

I have not written anything in my blog since I passed the A+ exam.... Maybe I have been experiencing some brain fry and have not felt creative enough to babble in here. I told my friend Jorge at work yesterday about Blogs and he said " what in the world is a blog". LOL... I told him that a blog is a web log or sort of like an "online diary". Jorge sort of cocked his head to one side, raised his eyebrow and gave me a "what in the world are you talking about dude" look. He asked me why would someone want to do something like that for the whole world to read? I told him that not everyone has their blog wide open for the general public and that you can lock them down to where only certain folks have access to it. Well, anyway, I guess that was where we left it.

Speaking of blogs, I am still waiting for a certain "someone" to start their blog..... I am not mentioning names here but YOU know who you are dont you???? LOL.... Get to creating that blog and write in it atleast once per week. PLEASE..... Speaking of writing in your blog KATY dear, you have not written much lately either have you?

I guess there is not much more to report here from Duck Ditch USA. Life goes on as usual in that we are doing the daily routine of eating , sleeping, fighting with the kids, going to work and starting the routine over and over again each day. I have not had a day off since we came back from the Happy Days camp on the 15th of last month so that it getting kind of old. We owe we owe off to work we go is our song that we sing each day. We are slaves to debt I guess. As Suze Orman would say there are two types of debt, personal debt and institutional debt. Some debt is good and most debt is very bad. I am like most of us in that I have some of both. My only regret is that I wished I would have read books like hers 20 years ago so that I could have kept from making some pretty stupid financial decisions in the past. Well, you know the old saying and how true it is. Knowledge is power. When you gain knowledge you can move out of the darkness of ignorance into the light and begin to do something, anything to correct past mistakes and stop making the same old errors and having to live through the consequences of those errors. There are nine small books in the series that Suze Orman wrote about finances and I am on the first book that talks about debt. Most of it has to do with Credit card debt etc.. which does not really apply to me but it is GOOD information for those of you out there that do have lots of credit card debt that you are trying to manage.

I am working on my Network + curriculum which I am hoping to accomplish between now and the end of February. I read through four chapters yesterday and I am hoping to go through another four chapters today at work between 3 Pm and 11pm. My goal for 2005 is to have all three of my Comptia exams passed and atleast 3 or 4 Microsoft exams passed. That will give me the A+, Network +, Security + and MCSA. At that point I will have increased my marketability in the IT industry 10 fold. Recruiters and employers apparently love to see certifications taken and passed. It tells them that you know what you are doing. What it really means is that you know how to study and take tests. LOL.... It does not necessarily mean that you will know how to take that knowledge and use it successfully in a real world environment.

Have a great day and a good week....