ETL ERP via SQL

To approve a corporate merger the Federal Trade Commission required us to sell off a division to prevent having a monopolistic market share. To avoid software licensing complexities and for business continuity, the purchaser was allowed to be umbrellaed under our existing software license and remained hosted on our servers for two years. Environment was CA-PRMS Enterprise Resource Planning on an IBM I-series. Created a new instance, updated key values while porting master files and transaction history data into the new instance. Scrubbed same data from old instance. Set security to prevent cross access. Hard due date or merger would be cancelled. Federal auditors inspected through process. Trickiest was incomplete transactions like a partially complete work order, AR unapplied cash or AP/PO partial match in receiving. Some of the most challenging fun I had in 30 years of IT

Eating mushrooms with the homies in the woods instead of going to prom. Zero regrets, would do it again.

Runescape

By April of 2007 I had completely burned myself out working for my third tech startup in the Boston area. By the end of April I was in New Zealand followed by Australia on a month+ long solo trip to unwind and recover from the burnout.

Oh man, probably deep into World of Warcraft, absolutely “no-lifing” it. Dropping in and out of community college. Not many friends. Living on my own for the first time. Not taking care of myself.

D&D

In highschool with a huge red mohawk and playing bass.

Frolicking around in the evenings while all the other neighborhood kids looked on in annoyance.

Toontown I think

I graduated highschool in 2007.

I was burning CDs off of mp3’ I downloaded, someone taught me how to use IRC (internet relay chat). I had a lot of NoFx, and was really getting into Punk music from the 90s. I spent a lot of time downloading/seeding music. I had an old computer I can still visualize.

Internet dating was brand new, and I dipped my toe in. We would have parties with 10-15 people, and played beer pong with beer in the cups, not water, I learned kings cup, and shortly after refused to play it… but we also played cards a lot, five card stud/draw and Rummy. My group loved card games, we’d play Bullshit and Spoons while wasting late into the night.

For a time, I was going with some buddies Friday nights to the capital city, where they’d have car races, and then we’d be chased away by cops. Not my scene, but it was sort of fun.

Weed wasn’t legal and obtaining it was not difficult but more expensive. I paid $60 for an 1/8 for the good stuff, $40 an 1/8 for the shit stuff. Today, there is no shit stuff, least I haven’t seen it in over a decade. We made a giant bong out of a water cooler jug, that summer, attaching hoses and gas mask pieces. It took a half to fill the bowl on it, and when we woke up the next morning, the chamber still jad smoke. Ten people, and we couldn’t clear it. We used to have “smoking apparatus” competitions. We’d set 20 mins, and you can only use what was in the house to make something to smoke out of. Then see what people came up with.

We’d go swimming and (lol a lot a weed, we were always trying to find place to smoke the more interesting the better) we’d stick joints and lighters into dry empty bottles and swim with it out to the docks at midnight and smoke under moonlight. One time, my brothers friend was on the junior police force or something, and we were at the lake after hours, and he rolled up and hit is siren he had intalled in his geo. We buried the blunt in the sand :( only to find out it was him. Aye those days.

One night we stayed up and played the longest game of mario party of all time. Nearly 18 hours of mario party, on an old game cube. We set the turn limit to max and just didnt sleep.

But we we’re always hanging out with folks. I was a social reject and still had good people always around. There are no pictures really and definitely no videos from that time, only memories. We didn’t bring phones with us out to the dock, we didn’t post about our adventures. I had a lot of fun. We did some cringe shit, I remember telling my brother’s friend, who I wasn’t physically attracted to, that I wanted to fuck his mind, like I think back, like girl, what are you doing, and laugh. So much cringe shit, but it didn’t matter, and tbf, I meant it in that moment. We often spoke about existential stuff and discussed weird philosophy of 18 year olds trying to find their place and values. I read old books. I still read 100 year old books. We talked about ideas, a lot, while stoned.

Went to college shortly after, got a job, learned my tolerance with alcohol, and yeah.

2007 was an interesting year for sure, I’m only sharing what I did in my free time, which was hang out with buddies, with no cares.

I was an incredibly awkward high school student in 2007. Coincidentally, I think that’s the year I really got into alcohol…

That would’ve about been the year that I dropped out of college and quit my job to play world of warcraft every waking hour of my life

I officially graduated early and was working drywall while taking a light college workload. I crashed my old schools senior day with a 30 block to see my friends who were finishing their last year of highschool and got kicked out lol. What else… I was going to post hardcore shows at little venues that would close within 3 years and I was a warlock class leader for my world of Warcraft guild, getting bored of 4chan and phasing out of insurgen.CC. I think at this point i also started looking for a fake ID and got recs from coworkers with stolen SSNs but most of the contacts wouldn’t bite. I was also playing bass in a metal band but got alcohol poisoning and had to drop out.

Recording my third music album in Berlin and it turned out to be the best of all records I have done so far in my life.

Backpacked through Europe for a couple of weeks.