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Updated Resume

After a few weeks of editing and refining the MS Word version, I’ve finally updated the online version of my resume. Check it out. If you are potentially interested in hiring me, or know someone who might be, contact me! Thanks!

Sam Minter Resume

Health Fair Results

So there was a health fair thing at lunch here at work today. So I got all the free test stuff.

Here are my results:

Cholesterol — Total: 180 (Desireable), HDL: 45 (OK), LDL: 135 (Borderline)
Glucose — 114 (Normal)
Blood Pressure — Systolic: 138 (Prehypertension), Diastolic: 81 (Prehypertension)
BMI — 26 (Overweight)

OK. So my total cholesterol is good, but I’m a bit high on the “bad cholesterol”. It should be less than 130. I blame Rebecca and Chris taking me to Mortons. :-) Oh well. No burgers for a little while.

Glucose all normal. That’s good.

I know I’m all stressed and stuff, but that is the highest blood pressure I’ve ever registered. It still isn’t dangerzone, but it is above normal. (Above 140/90 would be Hypertension Stage I). I do not like that. In the past whenever I’ve checked I’ve usually registered with blood pressure too LOW if anything, but usually smack dab in the middle of normal. I’m going to start remembering to check whenever I pass the little machine in the drug store or grocery store. I’ll adjust some diet things too, but this one may be highly stress related.

BMI. OK. I’m at 182 as of this morning. I hate it when I am above 180. I like myself best between 165 and 170. To be in the “Normal” category instead of “Overweight” I need to get back under 174 pounds. I knew that one already of course. It’s been a few months since I was last under 174. Time to get there again and stay there a bit.

OK. That is my health update. :-)

August 2003’s Top Ten!

The August top ten email list has been posted online. If you made the list, you got the results by email a while ago. If you are one of those who never sends much email but follows this anyway, you can now see who won!

August 2003 Top Ten

Replacements

OK, a few substitutions on the Tivo wishlist front. I had a few suggestions before, but these are mostly my own:

The “Emmy” determined ones of couse stay the same. But…

First, since the guide listings finally include “Star Trek” in the info for “Enterprise”, I am broadening the wishlist to include all Star Trek.

Then in the “Shows” section of my method, I am eliminating Doctor Who and Queer Eye, and replacing them with Nova and 24. Doctor Who will come back when they actually do make more. Nova is because I have missed a good Science documentary show lately. 24 is because I have heard good things about it, and Season 3 hasn’t started yet, so I won’t miss the begining.

In the keyword section am killing the Egypt* and Syria* lists in favor of Ancient and President*. Ancient should get some good documentaries on ancient history. President* should get more and more stuff about the presidental race as that heats up.

In the Actors section I am eliminating Drew Barrymore and adding Janeane Garofalo.

And finally I’m switching my local news provider from “Action News” to “Eyewitness News” for variety.

The Tivo is processing the changes now. We’ll see how it goes.

In the mean time, I’ll make myself some dinner.

Al / Kim Wedding Pictures

A week ago right now, I was at the wedding reception for friends Al and Kim. Although I neglected to bring my camera for the rehersal dinner and the evening of debauchery that followed, I did bring the camera to the wedding itself and the reception. Being in the wedding, I couldn’t take pictures there, so gave the camera to Chris. They had said no flash in the church, so I’d turned off the flash to be good. So a lot of the pics came out too blurry to show. And some of the ones hewre are still a little blurry. And then a bunch of people were using their flashes anyway! Oh well.

In any case, there are a few fun pictures from the wedding and reception. For those of you who have been bugging me to get these out, here ya go.

Al / Kim Wedding Pictures

If anybody wants full resolution version of any of these for printing or whatnot, email me which ones and I’ll send them to you.

Should I?

Several people have suggested that I should apply. Thoughts?

Queer Eye Contact Us

We’re looking for straight guys, both single and married, of all ages and backgrounds to help become more stylish, more cultured and more desirable straight men.

They say Metro NYC though, and I’m not Metro NYC any more. I’m Metro Philly now. Oh well! :-)

[Edit: Fixed Typo. Title is Queer Eye, not Queer Qye.]

Neighbors

Been meaning to blog this for a few days, but keep forgetting…

I met one of the neighbors the other day!!! Specifically, the woman who bought the house next door… the other end unit right across for mine. I had actually looked at that house first, then the one I bought. They are mirror images of each other… except… mine has a basement and that one does not. So I bid on this one. But right before I put my bid in and made it final, I found out there were two other bidders, so I raised my offer about 6.6% from what I had initially planned. I won. I got the house with the basement.

Well, when I had looked at the house, there was a couple who came in to look at it right after me. They also bid on it. I beat them. They proceeded to bid on the house next door, and got that one.

Yup, my neighbors are the ones I out bid. Oops. :-)

She was coming over because they had gotten some of my mail. She seemed very nice. Said I was lucky to get this house, and they had looked at it too and loved the basement. We chatted for a minute about how they are redoing their house. Contractors have been there almost every day since they moved in. She mentioned that her husband had seen my projector TV through the window and really liked it. I invited them to come over any time to check it out more.

Anyway, they seem nice. I feel kind of bad that I out bid them. But then, on the other hand… I like the basement a lot too, and am really happy with this house. And I guess this gives them more cash to refit the other house the way they want.

Anyway, haven’t talked to them again since. But they seemed nice.

Firmware

Over the weekend Apple released a new firmware upgrade to the Airport Extreme. I eagerly downloaded it and tried it out last night. Once again, my troubles getting to ares from zeus were instantly solved…. but once again the connection kept dropping every 15 to 20 minutes. So I reverted again to an older firmware… several versions old. And once again things do not drop, but the connection to ares will only work over the internal IP, not the external default host route. Oh well. Maybe the next firmware upgrade.

Cough Cough

It’s probably stress induced, but I think I am getting sick. Energy levels have been ebbing for the last three days or so, and today I wake up with a nice hacking cough. . And a headache. Goodie. Oh well, gotta keep pushing through anyway. Bleh.

Thus the Slow Traffic

I was complaining about all the backed up traffic coming into work this morning. This is why.

Severe Weather Hits Delaware Valley (kyw.com)

Meteorologist Paul Deanno says damaging winds and torrential downpours hit the region beginning around 7 a.m., quickly moving north. The National Weather Service says one tornado touched down in Ewing Township, Mercer County, while the other tornado touched down in Flemington, Hunterdon County.

Yup. That’s right where I was driving though on the way to work. (Ewing Township that is.) Probably explains all the broken trees too. The tornado had passed by there probably an hour before I was driving to work.

The damage in the whole area last night was worse than anything from Isabel. I still have water and electric though. :-)