It seems like I've gone weeks without a proper post. So now that I have a spare moment without any deadlines or pressing matters hanging over my head, I thought I would bring the world up to speed on Andre Molnar.
Nearly a month ago now I become an officially licensed Taxi driver in the city of Hamilton. "What???" I hear you say.
This is a long story, but it doesn't end with me driving cab for a living. This is just business. I have been involved in my Mother's Taxi business for years now, helping with invoicing and other non-driving related tasks. If ever one day I should want to take over my mother's Taxi business I would need to be officially licensed with the city as a driver (to legally be an owner). So, I went ahead and got my license now to save having to do it later - and to cut down on potential red tape in the future. The other up-side (for my mother) is that if she wants to take time off, I can service her regular customers while she is on vacation.
So you can add cab driver to my resume.
I just wrapped up a project a couple of days ago. I ran a CSS training seminar for a small group of designers. I've done some training in the past, but mostly in-house or casual training. This project was the first completely formal training that I had done, where I was in complete control of the content, lesson plans and delivery. I designed a 4 hour course and delivered it receiving unanimous positive feedback.
The first section of the training went a little bit slow as I stumbled a bit to get my rhythm - but once I hit my stride the information started to flow out of me effortlessly. I hope I can run the seminar again in the near future. Its fun to teach.
So you can add trainer/educator to my resume.
The networking group I am part of has a monthly lead lottery. The basic idea is that people that attend the monthly networking/professional development meeting get entered into a draw. The winner of the draw is the beneficiary of other group member's generously provided business leads. This month I was the winner, and a lead has already come my way resulting in a sale.
So you can add lucky bastard to my resume.
I finally went and got a usb2.0 card for my archaic PC. My trusty PIII 600, with its gig of ram can now send files at blazing speeds to my iPod. That and a recent addition of a plenty good 128meg video card, makes me think that there is no good reason to ever get rid of this machine.
So you can add old hardware advocate to my resume.
Other minutia. Ages ago I finished reading Gibson's Pattern Recognition. I also finished reading Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers The Best of Blogs. Both chistmas presents. Gibson, interesting as usual. Best of blogs - you just wouldn't beleive how nice it is to read an anthology of blog entries off line on high-res portable pulp.
I'm going to see Ash in Toronto in April. I am also going to see Of Montreal again. Yay live entertainment!
Recently watched the film "what the bleep do we know." What the bleep do we know anyway.
And that is about all I can think of.
Oh that and the fact that my friends and I have been playing a whole lot of poker recently. We are planning on having a fun poker party night soon - a black tie event with martinis and cheesies.
Thats all for now folks
andre
Posted by andre at March 11, 2005 12:45 AM