tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52761452011-04-21T21:28:35.622-05:00Hal's Second Time AroundThis is a window on my life...please crawl in at your own risk!Haroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00515488294576493197noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276145.post-1143340128704288832006-03-25T21:24:00.000-05:002006-03-25T21:28:48.713-05:00Again some time has passed since I last posted.I've been a bit shy about sharing myself with the world of late, a period of hybernation has just passed as the month's of February and March have slipped by...two months ago, I ended a relationship that had only been rekindled late last October after a dormancy of a decade.We learn, as we go on through the years, that sometimes our perceptions to Haroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00515488294576493197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276145.post-1127191912516511022005-09-19T23:37:00.000-05:002005-09-19T23:51:52.523-05:00I feel it is time to blog again, I've recently moved on from a position as documentation specialist on an analyst team assigned to assist the Federal Employee Program Operations Center complete preparations for inserting the National Provider Identifier (NPI) mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) into their COBOL coded mainframe with it's JAVA interfaces. Haroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00515488294576493197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276145.post-1084633369345221192004-05-15T09:52:00.000-05:002004-05-15T10:02:49.346-05:00Yesterday, I spent the evening in IKEA with a friend.
The place was populated with but a handful of people on a Friday night.
The food reminded me of what I got in Copenhagen every day. How I miss that diet.
I was along for the ride. After spending some time in a dog park watching my friend's dog play with the others...and listening to the chatter of other dog owners, I walked back with my Haroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00515488294576493197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276145.post-1079317039355088922004-03-14T21:17:00.000-05:002004-03-14T21:20:29.483-05:00Winding down the weekend, I've just come back from Bethesda where I ran another test of a module of the software that I support. Problems, problems...User roles aren't quite set right to be able to complete the test.
No matter! I am very glad to have been able to complete that work so that I can take my car into the shop tomorrow. It needs a new left front tire to pass inspection.
I wish that IHaroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00515488294576493197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276145.post-1078680757240802542004-03-07T12:32:00.000-05:002004-03-07T12:37:15.153-05:00Creation!
Painting words on top of words is my particular medium and I have just resumed that process. Using thick acrylics, spread out on the canvas, I inscribe my thoughts in bold block letters from the top of the canvas to the bottom and then begin again, creating a flow of brushstrokes woven together. Colors are shifted with the moods of the thought and the paint builds up into a thick Haroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00515488294576493197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276145.post-1067393867644318412003-10-28T21:17:00.000-05:002003-10-28T21:17:54.890-05:00Back again a bit over a month later. I have accepted a new position and moved to a new apartment overlooking Reagan National Airport and the Potomac. I am very happy with the new arrangement and am pleased to be learning so much in my new position.
I was struck today by the idea that meerkats in the South of Africa and people are so similar. Here in the Northern Virginia area. We have many who Haroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00515488294576493197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276145.post-1064373495603852762003-09-23T22:18:00.000-05:002003-09-23T22:18:15.500-05:00Well, It has been a bit since I posted. Here I am once again recently back from a vacation in Europe. Too much to tell this late at night.
Arriving on September 10 in Munich, I spent the 11th in Salzburg and had dinner at Boccacio's in Prien am Chiemsee before getting back to Munich. The 12th found me taking an afternoon train to Augsburg where I had a wonderful dinner with old friends, Gabi, Haroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00515488294576493197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276145.post-1062886580798566662003-09-06T17:16:00.000-05:002003-09-06T17:16:20.796-05:00It's been a while since I have posted here and in between, I've lived another month!
I had the chance to go to the Andy Warhol Museum on the Weekend of August 24. A member's party was held for an opening of Clown Paintings. I made a new friend there and ended up going to The Church Brew Works for dinner. A real treat being in Pittsburgh again.
While there, I saw "Swimming Pool" with Charlotte Haroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00515488294576493197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276145.post-1059940367068117872003-08-03T14:52:00.000-05:002003-08-03T14:52:46.883-05:00Well, it's another day! I have just returned from a 16 mile bicycle tour, last four miles were ridden in a lovely downpour...the water splashing and flowing around the wheels as I peddled over Mounts Bay Road's bike path reminded me that all of this is interconnected...constantly flowing and my passing moves things, ever so slightly and the repercussions flow out from there.
So it is with Haroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00515488294576493197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276145.post-1059801835029611822003-08-02T00:23:00.000-05:002003-08-02T00:23:54.966-05:00Very early Saturday morning, I feel that I have been letting my blog moulder too long.
Good news! I have found out on Wednesday that the State Courts of Minnesota are going to be using the Web500 CMS Professional software! The deal finally closed. Even though I have not been working for Web500 since Halloween, I still am very happy to see their software get purchased outside of Denmark. What is Haroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00515488294576493197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276145.post-953587332003-06-06T00:37:00.000-05:002003-06-06T00:37:38.816-05:00My old company has just been bought! I am really glad that they seem to be in a position to survive.
Not too much else is new around here. I am still trying to get my energy back up so that I can make this blog a going concern. Insomnia has me up at the moment. Is this how bloggers do it? Do we give up sleep.
Well, my interests at the moment are revolving around information architecture and I Haroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00515488294576493197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5276145.post-925370772003-04-13T14:07:00.000-05:002003-04-13T14:07:16.686-05:00Ah yes! The test has worked. So, now that I am back, maybe I had better talk a little a bit about who and what I am.
At the moment, I'm working as a Senior Technical Writer/Editor for a contracting company. My assignment is at the a military base near my hometown. I'm don't think I'm at liberty to say much more about that issue!
I am very glad to be getting more experience in my profession of Haroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00515488294576493197noreply@blogger.com