Hi everyone, I am new...

Hi everyone, I am new here.

Not just new here, but to blogging in general. Ain't that amazing since blogging has been around since the dark ages (it seems) and I have been around longer!

I guess its about convention catching up with innovation. Although that is sort of an oxymoron in and of itself... I have always considered myself to be on the 'bleeding' edge of technology, but seemed to have missed out on some of the cultural side effects of that very technology.

I am finding out just now what it means to have been on the cutting edge and be so far behind. You see I was recently laid off in a company "downsizing" and am job hunting. It seems that I have been left behind while taking a less-traveled path of technology and now it seems I don't know enough (or maybe to be more accurate, I don't know the right things) to land a new position.

And it could be that I am not in the right geographical location for my line of work. Left California a few years back for Kansas City, and I think that I made a big mistake. Am now desperate for a way to return.

So here is my attempt at a blog. Be kind.

jbgrant