employment
The company for which I work is gasping its terminal breaths, so I must find employment soon. I've resigned myself to having to relocate, as where I live is woefully lacking any programming industry. I'd love to stay near my family, here in the southeast U.S., but it might also be nice to move away (even emigrate!) for a few years.
I love Unix/Linux, and don't want to battle Microsoft bugs at part of my job, so no programming in Visual-{BASIC,C++,COBOL,Ada}, or whatever. As pie-in-the-sky, I recently (re-)discovered Lisp, so a Lisp-friendly company would make me very happy, but I really don't expect it. Good health insurance is my only really big requirement. I'm good at problem-solving, and hate to be bored. I don't like to deal with hardware problems, and I make really good chicken quesadillas. Surely someone could use me.
Since most jobs are found via word-of-mouth, I thought that I'd mention it here, to fish for leads from fellow Advogatoians. If you hear of a need for someone with my interests, then mail me at <employment@chad.org>. I'll reply with my resume.
photography
I collected together my negatives and slides, and am beginning to organize them. I got a few packs of three-ring-binder sheets for 35mm film negatives and for mounted 35mm slides, and started filling them. I'm dumbstruck at the amount of pictures I must be taking. Sure, I carry my camera (a 20-year-old Canon AE-1) around with me a fair amount, but I was amazed to compile all my output together and wind up with such a large stack of stuff. I'll need to buy more sheets and maybe a filing cabinet. I have to do some counting and math to decide if it's even feasable to scan all the picutes to large, good-quality JPEGs and store them on disk, as I was planning to do.
In looking over the older stuff, I'm pleasantly surprised to find that some of my earlier stuff is better than I remembered it was.