Do You Have Any Children?
Yes!! My first is Nicholas (Nick), born in late 1995.
He's already taller than I am.
My second child is my daughter, Lauren, born in early 2003. She's such a smart, lovely redhead.
My third and final child is my son, James (Jamie), born in 2006. He's quite a character.
Where I Live
I live in the southern part of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
My first house was a small two-bedroom house in Upper Kingsclear, outside Fredericton. I sold it in November 2001.
Here are some photos of my first house
We moved into my second house in 2000. Here are photos of my second house.
We had our third house built in 2004.
Where I Work
I work for ADM Systems Engineering Ltd.. I am the Winnipeg office. ;)
I used to work at NB Power,
the provincial power utility. My job title was "Information Technology Specialist - Generation", which means I did stuff with computers for the Generation business unit.
My job involved several different tasks:
- Technical contact, chief bottlewasher, etc. for PI historian systems from OSI Software;
- System administrator for Sun workstations ("WEStations") in two of our plants;
- System administrator, programmer, chief bottle-washer for four performance monitoring
PCs ("Heat Rate PCs") in our Coleson Cove and Dalhousie plants (these PCs measure how
efficiently the plant is being run);
- System administrator for the Praut machines (Bull DPS-6000 minicomputers) for our Millbank
and Sainte Rose gas turbine plants;
- C programmer for a number of tasks;
- General computer guru.
It was a good job, with lots of variety. I really consider myself a programmer, because that's
what I like doing most.
The Car I Drive
My beautiful red 1999 Saturn SL1! :)
My first and previous car was a 1989 Chevrolet Cavalier that I purchased on December 11, 1989. I sold it in September 1999 with a little over 311,000 km on it and the new owner
drove it for over 40,000 km before it finally died. It was a great little car.
We also bought a Kia Sedona van in 2004 to haul the kids around, and traded it in in 2011 for a Honda Odyssey... a much better van.
