Martial Artist -- Black Belt (11/21/2003) Cheezic Tang Soo Do
Amateur Musician -- Guitar, Piano, Voice
Bemused Husband of a Lioness and Father of Wonderful Children
Reader of Science Fiction
Administrator of Databases
Owned by: 1 Wife -- 2 kids -- 1 dog -- 5 cats
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Sheesh. Finally, boss has signed Oracle Training expense form and I can go. Unless someone above Boss changes mind. ::crosses fingers::
Posted at 10/25/2006 4:08:56 pm by psevetson
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Tuesday, July 04, 2006
In Memoriam. Again, dammit.
God of the afflicted, comforter of those who mourn;
Take up the spirit of Brad Sevetson into your heart tonight, and grant him the joy of reconciliation with You, the Creator of All.
Grant Betsy and their children the knowledge of your boundless love, and comfort them in their hour of grief. Be their rock, to whom they can cling when all else seems lost. Grant them timely healing of this heart-wound, and clear memory of the blessing of Brad’s love for them and the wonder of the times they spent together.
In the name of your Son, our Savior, we ask this of you.
Posted at 7/4/2006 6:14:55 pm by psevetson
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Friday, May 26, 2006
!@#$!@#%$!@#$#$^%&*!!!!???!!!
My Oracle training has been postponed into next fiscal year. October or later.
Posted at 5/26/2006 1:18:31 pm by psevetson
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Monday, May 15, 2006
In Gratitude and love to Kin-Mothers and Friend-Mothers:
Deborah Lambert-Sevetson
Mary Louise Sevetson
Irene P. Lambert
Andrea Sevetson
Erika Sevetson
Rebecca Bond
Cheryl Case
Morgen Kirby
Debi Reynolds
(God, I hope I'm not missing anyone important... I tend to the absent-minded)
Love,
Phil
Posted at 5/15/2006 11:25:05 am by psevetson
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Oracle Database Administration
My Database Blog has a new entry about Oracle book resources at: http://psevetson.blogspot.com/
I've been selected to receive training in Oracle Database Administration, so I've updated my Database Blog (it was previously a DB2 Database Blog) to include useful stuff. I'm very happy about this -- I was thinking that I was going to have to leave my current employer to get this stuff.
It's a big help to my career. Basically, if I got laid off today, I'd be in the same position I was five years ago -- expert in a technology (DB2 mainframe database administration) that pays very well, if there's an opening, and if I'm willing to move to where the opening is. There are many more openings for Oracle DBAs than there are for DB2 DBAs, and they're more distributed geographically. The odds are very good that, if Wakefern-my-current-employer decided to outsource Database Administration (which is possible; they considered doing so several years ago), I'd be able to find another job without having to move again. That is, once I get finished with the training and get some experience under my belt.
Toodles!
Posted at 5/10/2006 10:50:27 am by psevetson
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Thursday, June 16, 2005
Dark day. Deb just now got off the phone with her pain-management doctor and called me. Because of the surgery not being indicated, because she's got numbness in her legs, because she has to have prescription narcotics in her system to blunt the pain she experiences (lower back) enough to function, her doctor says she should not be driving, and he will support her application for Social Security Disability. Swearing isn't appropriate -- as she says, it beats having your obituary in the newspaper. But we're going to have to adjust our thinking from "this is an episode and it'll go away" to "it's going to be like this from here on, so get used to it." An August trip up to see relatives in Boston for a week is probably not on -- we'll have to discuss it.
More news to selected friends and family.
Posted at 6/16/2005 4:57:57 pm by psevetson
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Monday, June 13, 2005
We've changed cellphone numbers so that they're local numbers down here in NJ. This is more convenient for people who call us down here, which is almost all of our calls. Please contact me (using the link on this webpage) if you need my new number.
--Phil
Posted at 6/13/2005 11:08:35 am by psevetson
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Saturday, May 21, 2005
THE OSCAR MAYER WEINERMOBILE CONTEST???
So we're driving home from a round of mini-golf and hitting a bucket of balls on a local driving range, and as we stop at a drugstore for chips and soda, we see a giant vehicle shaped like a hot dog on a bun, with the Oscar Mayer logo on the side. It's the OSCAR MAYER WEINERMOBILE!!! of whose existence I was innocent until this moment. But, since I work for a grocery co-op, I figure maybe they'll have a cool magnet I can slap on the side of my desk at work. No such luck... but do you remember the "Oscar Mayer Weenie Whistle" that the stepfather wished for in "The Santa Clause"? They've got some of those. Okay, this is cool promotional kitsch. Furthermore, there's a contest where one lucky winner gets to use the Weinermobile for a day, so I went home and entered that (it's here, on the web!)ANONYMITY SOUGHT One of my blogging friends has encountered (online, in her friend's blog only) a guy who bothered to look up her area code and told her he knew approximately where she lived. While he's trying to tell her how to live her life (she's got an unpleasant personal situation at the moment). There's a chance he could track through her back to me if he turns out to be a real psycho (evidence not in yet), and I don't live far enough away from him to be confident if he finds me. I've gone back through my posts in an attempt to edit them of location/other data about our family and my kids. This isn't complete anonymity but it's a start. If anyone sees anything in this blog which could be used to identify me, please point it out to me so I can remove it. ::sigh:: I don't think this is cause yet for huge alarm, but it's certainly annoying. Toodles, all, and enjoy those brand-name franks!
--Phil
Posted at 5/21/2005 8:52:21 pm by psevetson
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Friday, May 20, 2005
I'm playing on the XBox -- spent about 1:15 on it last night with I. backseat-driving, and we loved it. HALO is the first game of choice. Good plot, good action, I'm playing it at minimal intensity to make up for my aged reflexes and lack of experience with game controllers.
Buddy Dawn B. says that she likes Outlaw Golf, and explained why. Apparently anything which is named "outlaw" is for adults only. So I won't be introducing anything in my house, since I. is only nine.
--Phil
Posted at 5/20/2005 2:27:51 pm by psevetson
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
SOME GOOD XBOX TITLES FOR KIDS
Anything Crash Bandicoot
Anything Sonic the Hedgehog
Shrek
The Incredibles (Features hitting and shooting but no blood or gore, so older kids)
MX Unleashed (Motorcycle Racing in dirt)
More as I find them.
SOME BAD XBOX TITLES FOR KIDS
Almost anything martial-arts-y; they seem to have gone in for weapons and blood in every one I've checked.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (of course)
Anything by Tom Clancy (of course)
GRAND THEFT AUTO. What are parents THINKING of, to let their kids anywhere near this thing?
Oddly, anything which calls itself any variation of "Extreme Volleyball". Either a lot of bare babe skin, or blood and broken bones.
Gotta go. Later.
Posted at 5/17/2005 9:58:27 pm by psevetson
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