About Namey
November 15th, 2003

Truth has a way of shifting under pressure.

I'm really not terribly interesting. Well, I used to be interesting. At least as far as my hair went. It was kinda long. And blonde. And straight. And girls liked to play with it. Which I really didn't mind one bit. I'm still trying to figure out why I cut it. And I'm still deciding whether or not I want it back. Less upkeep, you understand.

Lesse...short, dark blonde hair; brown eyes. Goatee and glasses as of this writing, though the goatee comes and goes as it pleases. I used to be kind of skinny; now I seem to be gaining no matter what... it's like my body up and went, "Time to kill your looks!" I'm kind of short (5' 8" or so). Managed to reach the rip old age of 21 as of '97, though getting there was fairly boring.

I'm pale. Really pale. I glow in blacklights. I went to Missouri in the summer of '95 to go camping with some friends off of Everdark. At one point, we were on a motorboat for three hours. With sunscreen, I was a lobster for at least a week afterward. I mean sunburned to the point I couldn't walk because it hurt to straighten my legs. I don't tan. At all.

I've lived in various parts of San Diego for all of my life. In Ocean Beach 'til '85 or so, then to Point Loma, where I lived until last January (1996). To dank, dark El Cajon, then to even danker Spring Valley. (Nothing beats sirens in the middle of the night.) Currently residing in Normal Heights with a good roommate who happens to adore spiders. Eep.

I'm into most types of music. I don't have a special "thing" for local bands, but I like a lot of them. Jewel, the Rugburns, Psychotic Waltz, Buck Oh Nine... And the general, worldly-known (and not so known) music. Fiona Apple, Sisters of Mercy, Tori Amos, Blutengel, Pink Floyd, Metallica, Alanis Morrissette, Nine Inch Nails, Queensrÿche, Sade, And One, Wolfsheim, Tears for Fears, Apoptygma Berzerk, VNV Nation, Suicide Commando, Dr. Dre, Kid Rock, Tool, Sarah McLachlan, Zapp & Roger, Haujobb/HMB, Merzbow, Binar Code, Imminent... Basically, a little bit of everything, though my main playlist right now consists of cuts from the goth and industrial scene. My current favorite's Assemblage 23, since I find myself relating to a lot of songs (ie, "Drive"), and the singer looks like me. * cough*

I'm a random watcher of TV...mostly the more serious of cartoons (anime like Dragonball Z and Ronin Warriors)... Wrestling (which tends to scare most people I know), and the WB Shows (Buffy, Angel, Roswell, Dawson's... which scares the other people I know). Picky about movies, though I don't seem to have a set criteria; action and horror don't terribly appeal to me, though. ("What?! And you call yourself a guy?")

I used work at a little hole in the wall called Vertique Verticals, a warehouse that constructs and distributes window blinds for Home Depot to sell to people. Quit in July '97, in part due to a nasty argument with a radial saw that killed my motivation (not to mention my finger). Came back later that year. My section closed soonafter; I went to quality control, then data entry in the office. Much more in tune with my tastes (not to mention less fatal), though customer service was unfortunately part of the fine print. Early 2000, the place went out of business, though. Alas.

In the frantic search for new work -- I do so love bills -- I came upon a start-up company called eAssist.com, which is basically an outsource for web-based customer care. Considering it was twice the pay for a quarter of the stress compared to VV, you can guess how long it took me to snatch that one up. Unfortuantely, because of some of the clients, the large majority of the rep staff was telephone... and with the last client I was put on....well, to be short: screaming mothers, husbands and pregnant women... the stress returned, and I moved on very quickly when given the chance.

I've been with Qualcomm since June of 2000. First I was doing backups, restores, and general monitoring. Our group eventually started taking on Data Center Operations -- good thing, too, since that's what our group was called -- server and switch installs, and managing power, network and cooling in the server rooms. The monitoring side also became bigger (read: watching/troubleshooting more stuff), and eventually the group split into two -- I stayed with hardware. Currently, I'm training to be at least temporarily part of the Unix engineering group that works closely with both the Data Center and the end users of the machines -- third tier troubleshooting, ordering equipment, coordinating downtimes, etc. Fun stuff.