Ernie Edmonds:  

Ok- so Im sitting here at 10:16pm on a Friday night when I should be either playing Halo with my clan or working in the studio, or maybe even getting some sleep for once, but no! Im sitting here looking at all these names that I remember from when I was not only in my teens and 20s but names from when I was like 5! I have to think- where the heck has the time gone? I can remember when I used to see some of you people in Kindergarden! WT_? Its like some sort of time warp or something. Anyway- I see that some of you have actually been doing some great things along the way. Whatever youve been into- I hope youve thrown your whole heart into it and succeeded in it! No regrets, right? Thats the thing I think of mostly when I get on this site. I wonder what could have been? Really the only way to answer that is to confirm in my mind that I did what I thought was right at the time- and I stuck to my faith along the way. Sure we all have times when thats questionable but in the end- I think I did mostly the right thing. (Yes I know some of you are ROFL right now- especially the ones who have been on the business end of one of my XBOX Live hacks in Halo 2! or the ones who used to know me as ALPINE I- to you I say- we all choose the dark side at least once in our life.) Ive digressed... So some of you that are reading this, dont know whats been going on with me for a while. In a nutshell, I did the public school thing, then did the private (Christian) school thing (THANK YOU Mom and Dad for caring enough to care what happened to me!) and once I got out of there I did the college thing, then as I was getting outa there- was intercepted by Walmart. Stayed there for a while, moved around some, and learned alot- I hate the place now and wont even shop there but like I said, I did learn alot and met Angela (my first wife) there too! Next it was off to Office Depot where I decided that retail just wasnt my gig so I took up computers. About this time my first daughter came into my life and I was changed forever! From there I found that not only had I taken up computers I had found my calling. Its a great thing to wake up in the morning and look forward to going to work! If you consider work to be actually work- maybe you should look at what you do when your off and see if you can make money at it???? So the story continues with my staying in computers. I went on a knowledge quest and came out with MCP, MCSA, MCSE, MCSE+I, CCNA, CISSP, CSEPS, C|EH, SSCP, CAP, and some others. Think back to the previous paragraph- Its not work to me- its just a fun time and really I look at it like playtime! What could be better? I get paid to play??? Is that not the biggest social enginering hack in the world? Anyway- At this point I had been running a small Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Hampton Roads for several years. Angela and I decided to call it quits and I had been offered the job of a lifetime (So I thought) with Nortel Networks- the catch, I had to move to Northern Virginia to accept it. Hello! It was a HUGE raise- I was in Herndon in NO TIME! :) So now Im with Nortel. I find out the day before Christmas break that I had to be in Germany on Jan 2nd- oh, and pack for three months...WT_? How does one actually pack for 3 freaking months??? In a sentance- take everything you can carry in your suitcase and buy everything new when you get there. It works! You can get Armani and all the other names at what you can get Cheapo for in the states. So I staye...Expand for more