It’s a really sad time right now. A car crash early Saturday morning claimed two lives, one of whom was a good friend of mine. A third person who survived the crash died Saturday night at the hospital.

Patrick Zimmer and Maggie Howard died in the car crash, while Jason Cardenas survived only to succumb to his injuries later. They were all British citizens.

I worked with both Patrick and Jason at Fujitsu Transaction Solutions. Both were really great people, but I worked much closer to Patrick. Maggie was the wife of Ian Howard, who also worked at Fujitsu.

Patrick and I both started Fujitsu at about the same time; he started a week after I did. I did not get to know him much until after we started working together on a project for the past month and a half.

I can say that working with Patrick was a real pleasure. He was a really fun and likable guy. He loved one of my greatest loves – nature; probably more than I did.

I am really sorry that I was not able to spend more time with him. To think about the times he asked if I wouldn’t like to go out for drinks or to take a little hike that I said no to. He will be missed.

My prayers go out to the family, to Ian and his son, and especially to Miki, Patrick’s wife.

Patrick and his Suzuki Jimny

Jason

Maggie and Ian

Well it’s going into the fourth week in my new job. For those who don’t know, I’ve gone back to the IT service industry as a Solutions Architect (my old job was as a Network Manager for the company). Honestly, I still not know what a Solution Architect is really supposed to do, but right now I am just going with the flow; I should be able to figure it out soon I hope.

So anyway, it is going okay for now, just need to do a lot of certification exams since I let that lapse quite some time ago. So far I redid my CCNA and got 100%, which made me felt good since I though I would be quite rusty.

As for our customers, it’s been more government agencies, which in my opinion sucks ass. I won’t say much else, but just know that I don’t like them much.
Besides that, the place is good. It has been much less stressful than at my old company… much much less stressful.

Let’s see how everything progresses.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2007.

Hopefully this New Year will bring many better tidings that the one past.

The murder rate might be less than last years, but over the pass couple of days there has been a few killings so let’s see how it turns out.

Inflation also went down like by .5 percent to 9.8 percent but that is still a hell of a lot. I have no investments that is making that much interest, so at the moment I am making a loss on it all.

So let’s see what the New Year holds. It’s an election year, so hope is alive that changes would take place, albeit just a little.

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