Sun Certified... woooot.

As of about an hour ago I am a Sun Certified Java programmer. I scored slightly lower on the test than I'd've liked, but still came in way above the pass/fail line. So after giving myself a couple of cursory kicks for the questions I missed, and wondering what they were, I turned to the much more pertinent question of where to have lunch. :)

How nice to have the resume padding... because when you have a brand new job that you intend to stay at for a few years, you know that's when you really need it. Heh. There'll probably be a new certification for Java 1.5 that I'll have to take an upgrade test for, before I get around to leaving Politic Frog. And yet, I'm glad I did it. I'm glad I'm finally showing enough interest in my profession to do things like this.

All right, all right, one more viewpoint -- and my idea of what friends are for

Geez... abortion posting is really going around right now. I like that person's views on brain activity as a delimiter for when a life becomes human, though I actually think that's when the developing person-to-be should be accorded something we already have lying around for conscious creatures that don't happen to be people... animal rights! Humane termination okay, mistreatment not okay, until some future time (say, birth, just to be traditional) when full human rights could take over. It would work beautifully, in my opinion, if only the religous right wouldn't hit the ceiling at hearing the word 'animal' used to describe something with homo sapiens DNA.

To reiterate, but with a couple of cool links and a bit more disjointed ranting this time, ( I feel that abortion is in many cases more responsible than bringing a child into the world. )

Sigh... I have a hard time explaining how I've felt this week. Scraped raw, sure, but also just disapproved of. As if it isn't all right to be me, to think what I think, to live the way I live. The nation (with the exception of Massachusetts) just voted against everything I was hoping for, focus on silver linings though I may, and I've been bombarded with "just wait til you have kids, you'll see" messages from people who really ought to fucking know better. Even work has been bad. Without bluechromis and HLM I think the loneliness would have been unbearable.

Luckily, I did have them, wonderful and loyal peeps that they are, so I've now improved from miserable to merely pissy and belligerent. Thanks, guys. ;)