Diary

In case you haven’t heard, Matt Rossi‘s first book, Things That Never Were, will be released this summer. I’ll post more about it once it’s officially released, and I’m drooling to get my hands on a copy.

Congratulations, Matt!

Yesterday, at about 2:30 PM, my AIM screen name, “unxmaal”, dropped offline. When I tried to reconnect, I got a message saying the account was “suspended.” I tried logging onto www.aim.com via the link provided in the message, and found that all the AIM account info pages lead to a dead-end at home.netscape.com.

I called AOL’s billing center, at 1-888-265-8003, and spoke with a rep. According to this person, that screen name was associated with a dialup account I’d cancelled last year. Since the account was cancelled, I could no longer use it for AIM, nor could I create a new AIM account and move the name ‘unxmaal’ to it.

I’ve scheduled my CCNA exam for a couple of weeks from now, so I’ve been studying like a madman.

Normally I’ll get up in the morning, eat breakfast, and go to Starbuck’s, which is now my “office”. I study from about 8AM until 2PM, then go home for lunch. Today, I got done with a chapter early, and after going home for lunch, decided to stay and study.

Me: I decided to stay home this afternoon and study here.

A few hours after I moved the last boxes of junk from my old apartment into my new house, I was laid off from my job as a network engineer.

It sucks, but I knew it would happen sooner or later. Sprint had been holding the layoff axe over our heads for over a year and a half, and the latest round of rumors convinced me to really start looking for other employment.