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Seeking employment. No, I'm not joking. Question: does anybody still reading this journal/medium have a job opening that might consider me? Background: I hold an undergrad degree (bachelor's) in Network Communications and Management. I have two and a half years of formal "leadership" (management) experience in the networking industry (2011 to present), with an added year (2010 to 2011) of holding a "lead engineer" title before that. I was a senior network engineer from 2005 to 2010. I speak Juniper ScreenOS as well as Juniper Junos and the industry-standard Cisco IOS. I worked daily in routing and switching, BGP, security and architecture.

Sorry for being so quiet.  Usual disclaimer about work consuming my life applies, but that's nothing new.  The big thing thath as come up in the last week has been Jazz getting sick.  Jazz is the 14 year old tabby girl that belongs to my girlfriend.  You've seen at least one picture of Jazz in Yawn Apex. The full details can be found in this entry in my LiveJournal.  The short story is that Jazz lost 4 of the 11 pounds she was, bringing her to 7 pounds and change.  We took her to the vet, had blood work and a urinalysis done, and found out she's sick with Chronic Renal Failure, a disease that is ultimately terminal but can be treated in such