This looks interesting: The Bend, Oregon Celebrity Weblog.
Month: September 2005
The country’s safest places to live
According to this list from MSNBC/Forbes, seven of the 10 safest places to live in this country are in the Pacific Northwest. Central Oregon didn’t make the list, presumably because of the Sisters bulge and our general proximity to volcanoes. I’m a little surprised to see Medford/Ashland make the list, though; part of the selection… Continue reading The country’s safest places to live
Season of change
Change, indeed. Today was our eldest’s first day of kindergarten. Huge transition! She’ll be riding a bus and everything. She attends in the afternoon; our youngest is in a new preschool, attends in the mornings, five days a week (at the old preschool it was only three). The schedule change is still taking some getting… Continue reading Season of change
Maybe it’s a good time to learn COBOL
Two interesting factoids from ADTmag’s 2005 Salary Survey: [Application Programmers] Programmers in mainframe and Unix shops make the most, topping $59,000 a year in base salary. By development language environment, programmers in CICS and COBOL shops fare best, drawing average salaries of almost $62,000 for CICS-based development and $59,000 for COBOL. [System Programmers] Mainframe skills… Continue reading Maybe it’s a good time to learn COBOL
Bad, bad day
I may not be posting much this weekend. Today we had to have our oldest cat, Bob, put to sleep. He had a cancerous intestinal tumor that was inoperable. He was also 12 years old, he lived a long good life; we’d raised him from a kitten so this is especially hard. …it’s like losing… Continue reading Bad, bad day