Work was great today. I had a meeting about my new position and get to move on the stuff I planned on working on as they seemed to vibe good with the VP and the auditors. I have so much responsibility now. My plan is to let the groups of people that use the specific languages, which there are many, decide on the standards, co-incding with industry ones. It is going to be fun to work on standards for languages like COBOL that I will have to leanr a lot about.
Then we had a meeting about the intranet and decided on the people for the focus group. I think the ideas I had are pretty radical and what Roswell needs to get by in for a new progresive intranet. It will be such a huge, yet fun undertaking. It is amazing how big my projects are and how much influence I have had over the direction of how things are going. It makes all those endless hours of programming, teaching, studying and practicing seem worth it. Before I thought I was throwing my life away being bound to the computer for so many years and now I realize it was just laying a foundation for something greater.
The Gym
Speaking of laying the foundation. Man, I am getting way buff. Tonight I worked out so hard I was exhausted afterwards.
In the lockerroom, I was talking to this gym friend of mine about documenting life on the internet and how sometimes I am scared of what would happen if the political climate changed and gayness was more frowned upon with some sort of reprocussion. It is kind of hard to pretend when your whole life is in google cache. He seemed kind of amazed at how much of this generations life is online. Imagine gen Y. I mean I am only X.
I miss the muscles.
I misunderstood sorry. I hope that doesn't happen. But I'm sure there was a time when Jews thought being in Germany was safe so if it can happen there, we must learn from that and not let it happen here, oh wait it did with the Japanese I mean let it not happen again.
I hope we humans don't get more insular and segregated as we evolve!! That would defeat the point of evolution.
Anyway, I would LOVE to be a part of the focus group, if you are still recruiting. :)
I meant more like the government rounding you up and putting you in concentration camps kind of dangerous, not street dangerous.
Maybe I'm just a little bit crazy. But if i understood what you meant is that if things changed and being gay publicly became dangerous. I think it is important to know that it can still be dangerous. I think that there are areas in each city and each state where acceptance is different for gays, blacks, woman and others. For example the Elmwood strip you might see girls holding hands (i have) or two guys shopping in Wilson Farms who are together and you can tell and no one says anything. But at the same time there could be places in Buffalo that the same activity could get you into trouble real quickly. I'm guessing that there are places that if you where out and on the internet it wouldn't be safe (the sterotype is small towns and the bibble belt) not sure where those places are. I think that most people who don't approve won't get up in your face about it. I know that in the military they have that stupid Don't ask Don't tell policy but I wonder if you where found on the net but you never said anything if they would let you join, or if later they found stuff but it had no military link like that you where a soilder I wonder what they would do?
Wow sexy!