Derek Bodner’s Blog

On Monday, September 11th 2006, AJ’s Tazmanian Devil (’Taz’) was put to sleep. We got Taz when I was 13 back in 1995, I remember when Mom first brought her home I was at a baseball game, pitching, I believe, at the stadium right off of 222. She lived a very good life to the age of 11. She was as good of a dog that you could have hoped for, and you could see the joy on her face whenever we were around, right up to the end. You’ll always be remembered Taz, thank you.

I hope to be putting a gallery up online (Obviously not of all the pictures my mom has taken, it’s not going to be an exhaustive source, but some of my/our favorite pictures). I’ve registered a site ajstazmaniandevil.com, and will probably put the pictures up at gallery.ajstazmaniandevil.com, but that will be a work in progress.

Once again, thank you Taz.

I’ve got some good news to write today, and some very bad news. The good news is actually a few weeks old, and the bad news just happened this weekend, in what was one of the worst (if not the worst) weekends of my life. But more on that later.

On Tuesday, August 22nd I got a promotion. Completely random, I was actually going in to interview with a different position when they offered this position to me, without even an interview. I started that day as a ‘Dedicated Server Engineer’. It’s basically a support staff that solely handles our dedicated server clients. But it’s a lot more server-side work, and it’s really a good learning experience, a good thing to put on the resume, and it came with a substantial pay raise too, which never hurts.

So far it’s been good. While I’m happy with what I’m doing now, there’s no doubt I’m hoping it’s a jumping point for more in the future.