Texas – here I come!

I’m all packed and ’bout ready to go: I’ll catch the train to Frankfurt airport this morning at around 3.00h am to meet with a group of fellow travellers. We’ll be going to Texas and touring the major cities as well as Big Bend National Park. It should be interesting to pick up the vibe on the street in terms of how people feel about Obama ‘n all, especially in Texas that has errm… a strong conservative reputation

In any case, I’m looking forward to those 10 days and I’m ready to fully experience the adventure of a) meeting with people, b) travelling in a group (which I haven’t done since High School) and c) seeing all the magnificient places we are ‘booked’ for. Day 1 for example will see us take a special tour at Kennedy Space Center, Houston. Yay! Also, I’ll be meeting a High School friend in Dallas, whom I haven’t seen in – what ? – 20 years of more.

So, for now, the only thing I gotta tackle is sleepiness setting in as well as making sure I keep my health and previous bouts of inflammation (from gout) in check. Other than that: Texas, here I come!

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Memories of Canada

Tonight I was heavily reminded of the little time I spent in Canada in the spring of 2007. I went to a concert of a Canadian guitarist and singer and of Topekah, Kansas, at the local guitar and repair shop. An unforgettable evening…

Memories of Canada

Tonight I was heavily reminded of the little time I spent in Canada in the spring of 2007. I went to a concert of a Canadian guitarist and singer and of Topekah, Kansas, at the local guitar and repair shop. An unforgettable evening…

Memories of Canada

Tonight I was heavily reminded of the little time I spent in Canada in the spring of 2007. I went to a concert of a Canadian guitarist and singer and of Topekah, Kansas, at the local guitar and repair shop. An unforgettable evening…

The Interview

I went for another interview today, with a company specializing in document management software (DMS). I don’t mean to brag, but I think I pretty much slam dunked that thing. However, that still doesn’t mean I’ll get the job. Plus, it looks, as if it were full-time – which might not coincide too well with my other plans. But anyway… I still got time to ponder that.
So… when something like this happens (I do well – probably, more than well), I can’t help, but think: “SHE would have wanted THAT!”

Back to the Roots?

As of late, I found my interest in all things linguistics being rekindled. I have made new biz contacts, which might turn into something of quite some scope. It’s a little early to tell, but if my previous assessment of what we might be collaborating on stands the proof of scrutiny, it might become huge. I am actually thinking about finding ways of going back to university for a PhD. Don’t know yet, whether and how that can work, but the thought came up. Turning onto the academic route again, might be the perfect opportunity to dust off some old knowledge from my graduate studies and acquire an augmented theoretical framework for this new collaboration. AND – it might even help me find my place in life and make me more comfortable with myself and in answering the question of where I belong.

What inspires me about it is the fact that I might actually be able to apply all my previous work and college experience on the subject. It’ll be a tough call workwise and there’ll be plenty of it (work), but it looks personally gratifying and financially rewarding in the long run. Hm… Guess, I’ll have to do some more pondering.

Living on an Island?

A friend of mine just got accepted for a three-month-probational period in Cork, Ireland. She’ll be working in a helpdesk call-center, starting as early as next week.

I am thrilled for her and it looks like a good prospect, if she manages to make it into a permanent position. Also, I am more than curious to see, how things will go for her and what she will have to say in terms of quality and cost of living etc. in Ireland. As a matter of fact, we loosely talked about spending Christmas together, as she might have to take shifts over the holidays and won’t be able to celebrate with her son and family. Her son will stay with his grand-parents for the time being, which sounds like a tough call for her.

Bottomline: Her new start resparked my interest in going away and I’m assessing my immediate needs and requirements again. Migrating is definitely not over, but I might be coming from a new and different perspective on things than I used to about a year ago, when I planned for Canada.

Proof of life

I feel like I need to show a sign of life on this platform, so people don’t think it’s dead. Also, I’m thinking of copying some content over from ipernity, as I’m pretty regular there.

The idea came about when reading a friend’s blog today, whom I met on flickr and who was so nice to come along to ipernity. I was quite impressed with his blog, both content- as well as presentationwise and I think I’m seeing quite a number of parallels, both in his personal as well as professional life.

This finding bred a new thought: Isn’t it funny, how you can really observe the laws of the universe in action? I mean, his life and mine seem to have so much resemblance in certain aspects, and our personal development seems to be yielding almost matching results at this time. Given the web and its tremendous capacity in terms of social interaction, you get to see effects like this for the first time ever. This is major and I’m really happy and thrilled to be living in such exciting times.

Well, gotta go on with my routine now, but should be back with more online work later.

Domain Redirect

I found out that I can forward HTTP-requests to the domain projectwestbound.com, which I own. Since my domain is with a different provider, I wasn’t all sure about that, but they support something, so the domainname remains in the browser’s address line. That causes problems, when editing, but as soon as I enter the wordpress.com’s domain, I can edit just fine.

So – projectwestbound.com is a fully viable domain with content again being hosted by wordpress.com (at no charge ). I think, that’s about the cheapest way to have a wordpress-blog including your own domain name and hosting.

Just meant to share, for what it’s worth…

Moving Part Two

As already reported in this post, I have tried to move this very blog from Fairhost24.de to 1&1. In my infinite naivety I thought this to be a straightforward undertaking given the fact that 1&1 is a mass web provider and bost themselves in offering a blog and all kinds of services. But intuition told me to better cross-check and so
I did by calling them first and asking about moving my blog to their platform.Long story, short: I never got it to work and neither did they. So after having made sure of trying any possible measure I could think of and having had massive correspondence and phone calls with them, I decided to cancel the automated transferral of the hosting fee and got it back into my account. They sent me another notice informing me that they don’t see any failure on their part and denied access to my web-hosting package. Just a good thing I configured the HTTP-refresh/forwarding directive prior to them shutting me off my account. At least, something comes up when entering projectwestbound.com into the browser’s address line.This is the second unpleasant experience with large corporations in the web 2.0 sphere, shortly after the flickr desaster… It doesn’t seem a good idea to let big companies run the services we’re all using on a daily basis…