Baseballs and Technodogs

Sometimes, it seems, life throws you a series of curveballs when you're not looking, and all of a sudden you are forced to become adept at hitting them, lest you be hit. For me, "strike out" has been the mantra by which I have lived much of my life. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing, but you get used to something and when it changes, it feels odd. I've had issues with jobs, the dating scene, and sometimes my family (who hasn't?), but recently things seem to be falling into place, albeit a strange one.

I was recently promoted at work: Proposal Writer. For those of you who don't know, I started my true career in 2001 in fundraising and grantwriting. It was in this that I discovered a passion long buried, one that called for creativity and outside-of-the-box thinking (never my strong suit, but free-association really helps). Over the last 7 years i've held positions that have been development related, often coupled with the dreaded "I've written this proposal and now I want to ask you for money" bit. This most frequently happens with a large company or foundation. That was never my strong suit, nor will it ever be.

As I was saying, I get promoted at work to proposal writer, and find myself in a sea of the unknown. I work for a contractor that deals with some very high-tech information - engineering mostly - and have since been getting a crash course in technological information. Ask me what a distributed sensor is today, and I can probably tell you (Ok, the answer I give may not be right, but I can make something up with the best of them). I feel as though i've been given this incredible opportunity, and I feel very lucky to have been in the right place at the right time.

This is just a little update from me to you. No funny quotes, no amusing anecdotes, and yes, Cané is doing extraordinarily well. She just 'woofed' down a chew bone and is, as I write this, lying on the bed, paws twitching, likely dreaming about chasing squirrels through open fields. Or perhaps she too is thinking about distributed sensors and their wide application in military as well as civilian operations. My money is on the latter - she's very smart. Of course, based on this photograph, you certainly couldn't call her very chaste.