Hello and Welcome

Ok, I suppose I should start by talking about myself briefly.

My Name is Eric, and I am in IT. I have a Filipina girlfriend who I am madly in love with. The only other thing to say is… yes, I am a workaholic. I am currently working at three jobs and going to University of phoenix at the same time. Now the question most people ask is… “How the HECK do you do it?” Well, simply stated, my days are about 18 hours long from start to finish. My usual bed time is like 3 am in the morning, and I usually am awake by 9 am. Now I know people who are able to work on only two hours of sleep, and I haven’t a clue on how they can do that. I am currently running on 6 hours of sleep and have major problems with it occasionally. Oh well…

Enough about that, I figure if you’re still reading this then I haven’t bored you to badly yet with that mumble jumbo.

About my Girlfriend Rizzacecilia, She is beautiful, sweet, charming and nice, something that I don’t see much anymore. Of course I realize that I am in love and that everything is basically perfect from my point of view. I realize this and have taken drastic steps to make sure that I keep a level head about the situation. But we have known each other since November 2005 and I don’t think there is any really major issues that will keep us separate… now all I have to do is, save up enough to fly to the Philippines after I have finished my bachelors, get the paper work in order, survive the time it takes to have the paperwork go through the red tape because we all know that when I see her face to face, I will be unable to be anything else but a big soft puddle of melted Jell-O. (Hey, I am a poet, that doesn’t know it!) Then, while that is going, ensure that I get a decent job that will allow me to support her and myself, get an apartment (hopefully a house, but I am not picky) and save up enough money to get her to me here in the good old USA. After that I will find the cure to all diseases and then problem with non-perpetual motion devices and convert them all into a free energy system. Hmmm, somehow I don’t think that is possible, but as the old saying goes… “You can only eat an elephant a bite at a time.” So as always, I will take it one step at a time.

Now, why do I have a blog to keep up if I am already so busy? Well… I am currently attempting to beta test the new office 2007, which one of the features is a blog template. Since I haven’t tried any of the other templates yet, I figured that I should start on something. Part of this blog is to document some of the issues that I have run across. I am also beta testing Internet Explorer 7, as well as Media Player 11.

You see I am a part time developer. And need to pre-test my applications with the new software that is coming out on the market. Just to let you know I am proficient in several different programming languages.

• Visual Basic, this is the language that I use the most. It is simple, easy and direct. I have just started playing with the new ASP.net 2.0 just last January or February.
  
• C
  
• C++
  
• Visual C++
  
• Borland C++
  
• Java
  
• JavaScript
  
• HTML
  
• PHP
  
• CSS
  
• Perl
  
• CGI
  
• VBS, no I know it is similar to VB, but it is different enough to be considered a different language.
  

I also know several other different languages, but not enough to sit down and start coding something without a reference book nearby.

I think that is enough for now, from the looks of it, I have already posted almost 1,000 words into this post and I really don’t know how large the blog spot will allow for. And since this is my first post, I don’t want to spoil all of the surprises yet. Especially when I get down to actually talking about schooling, it will become very interesting, or even some of my points of interest when it comes to the aspect of people and their personalities. For instance do you realize that there are only about thirty different personality additives, and that all people can be described by a combination of those personality traits? Once you know someone’s personality traits, you will be able to determine what they will do in any situation. Now the hard part is to determine all of their personality traits, some of the traits are very easy to see, however there are several traits of people that are so hidden deep down that it literally takes years to see enough of their behaviors to locate them all. Even after you have determined all of the personality traits of a person, their likes and dislikes will change every 5 – 9 years, AKA the seven year itch.

Alright all, I think that is enough for now, take care and until I drop another line to everyone, this is Eric saying, God Bless.