Franzone Family Blog

Today was Thursday (at least at the time of me writing this). Apparently in my office, Thursday is also milkshake day because the ice cream shop nearby has half off milkshakes. Ok… I’m game. And hey, it’s only right over there across the street. We can walk! Alrighty then. So today I bundled up for [...]

Today I actually started working in some of the application code for the new company (Rogers Software Development). Woohoo! Of course it always takes a little while to learn the software architecture and engineering climate of a new group and they started me out with some fairly easy tasks that I can start learning on. [...]

I worked New Year’s Eve, though it wasn’t entirely productive. I was using a really old temporary machine until they could supply me with something workable. It only had 250 Mb of RAM… translation – it was SLOW! I would click or ALT-TAB to change windows and it would literally take up to one minute [...]

The Trip Up Well, the trip up to Fairbanks, Alaska was… looooooong! I met up with the other programmer in training in Atlanta so I at least had some good geek company while hopping different flights. I even met some people in one flight that lived in Alaska and they had some good suggestions and [...]

For this installation of Countdown To Alaska I thought I’d share some interesting facts about the state. State Capital: Juneau (map) Largest City: Anchorage (map) State Population: 670,053 (2006) Population Density: 1.1/sq mi (The least densely populated state) Land Area: 663,267 sq mi Median Household Income: $57,071 USD Alaska is the largest state in the [...]

I have formally accepted a position with Rogers Software Development, Inc. based in Fairbanks, Alaska. It is a work from home position doing computer and/or web programming… pretty much what I usually do. The interesting thing here though is that I am required to be on location in Fairbanks, AK for one month to complete [...]

Since I’ve been making the daily trek to Fort Walton I have taken up the task of tracking my gas mileage. I’m not sure why, I guess it’s just something to do besides complain about how much gas I’m using. I had to fill up yet again this morning and so entered the pertinent data [...]

I came across this interesting video of a guy (Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Work Week) showing on video how to tie the perfect tie. He is using a Windsor knot. I just thought it was kind of interesting. If any of you guys out there would like a quick rundown on the Windsor [...]

I got home from my first day away at work a little after 7 PM. I was greeted by the three most beautiful children in the world all screaming, “Daddy’s home!” That’s a very nice way to walk into your home. They had waited for me to get home before eating so we got to [...]

My first day on the job was… well, as you would expect any first day to be. I spent the first half with the human resources lady filling out paperwork and getting the business of formalizing my employment done. There was also a drug screening for which I was not so prepared. I had the [...]