I hope everyone is out there kicking doing the best they can in this crazy world. I miss hanging out here, its been at least 12 years since i logged on. I was saddened to see the news about MistaWiskas
Not that anyone care i'll share for myself. Trying to keep things positive as there is a lot to cry about right now Back in the day I hosted the aloader.com website which a lot of you used for image uploads/hosting for showing stuff off here. I lurked mostly but had a few IRL friends who also posted here. I've moved around a bit and got to see some of the country/big city. Move from Fort Myers->Orlando(Went to Full Sail)->Los Angeles->San Diego->Back to Fort Myers where my family is based. I worked in games/movie for a hot minute and got myself some credits for my technical work. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2816991/ Now i'm a backend web developer for a large company developing AI features using LLMs. I live with my wife we've been together for 10 years this past Oct. AND 2 cats and 1 dog. I hope everyone is doing well and has something to be happy/thankful for <3 if not im sending you those positive vibes!
Um, what happened to the contents of aloader? I need to know if the evidence still exists. I went from Chicago->SF-Eastern WA->Miami Beach->Jacksonville, FL->Chicago->Middle East->(recursive cycle between the ME & Chicago)
i did go looking for the aloader site content and i couldnt find it. it may have gotten missed in some past backup somehow. its possible it might on one of the drives i have sitting that i copied from in the past but doubtful. its been 10+ years since i know i last saw the folder. what evidence are you talking about? lol
It's been one helluva few years. Going back to 2015, I was medically retired from the Navy. I stayed in Norfolk, VA and sold cars for a few years until I was able to get a foot in the door doing contract work for the DOD and US Navy. First worked as a Grounds Communications Specialist for BQM-74E aereal drone targets. I built, worked on flight crew, maintained, and repaired the aereal drones used as live targets for Navy ships. After a few years, I got hired into my current company doing software support work for a few specific pieces of software the Navy uses. But, I provide full support. Training, troubleshooting, database maintenance, and database manipulation. I also build simple standalone networks which are setup on board ships during shipyard periods to host the software when the ship's networks are down for repairs/maintenance/upgrades. I'm now the leading engineer for this software, and travel the world servicing ships all over. I was in Italy twice in the last year, and rode the USS Mount Whitney from Gaeta, Italy to Genoa, Italy. I'm sitll having some pretty fun adventures. I separated from my ex-wife in June of 2020, and we were divorced in October of 2021. I've had a few girlfriends, but nothing ended up working out long term thus far. I have been exclusive with a girl out in Ohio who I have hung out with a lot. We try to visit each other as often as possible, but it's been difficult as money has been tight. I've fought through three very difficult and contemptuous custody hearings, and have maintained 50/50 joint physical and legal custody of our son. I'm still in my beach home out in Norfolk. In the last few months, I have been given sole legal and physical custody of my 15 year old goddaughter. She's moved into the house, and my son is here half of the time (in 2 week increments). We enjoy life with our 2 cats and 1 dog. Life's certainly been a ride, but I can't complain at all. We have a lot of fun and have created so many happy memories over the last several years. I dunno where I'll be in another 3-4 years. But, I plan on working at my current company as long as they will keep me. I enjoy the challenges of this job and have built a department with my manager. We manage over 5000 individual assets for the Navy (laptops, servers, switches, pelican cases, media converters, and several other networking toys). And to think, I did all of this without a minute of college in the IT field! I did finally get my Security+ cert this year. Pissed off a lot of the younger guys when I passed on the first try. lol ~Will Courtier~
I'm still here also. Left Miami in 2021 after our rent was going to go from $2000 to $3200, and my company was giving raises of, "keep up the great work guys!" for that year, after already stiffing us in April 2020 when the pandemic started. Essentially, Miami had been discovered as being a decent value for what you get in terms of a major city and climate (pre 2020), and prices skyrocketed, but local wages were stagnant. And I was at one of the "better" companies in the city. Moved to Houston with the woman at that time. I think this is as far north as I can go again. My days of snow and cold are over, I hate it and I also get seasonal depression. I need warmth, and to see the sun like... daily. Got a new job which I'm still at. My responsibilities keep changing, but right now I'm doing a lot of database admin, as well as Windows server admin split with another guy thankfully, some Linux admin (yay Ansible), and a little bit of AWS. Racked up all their main certs minus one because the company wanted it (and paid for it). Ended up splitting with the old lady. 100% disclosure, I have been pretty depressed the past year and a half or so. She wanted to get married, and I did as well, but not under the rushed circumstances that she wanted. We were engaged, she told me during the last week of January that she wanted to be married in April. So the next month was full of wedding planning while I was overworked, doing 14 hour days typically. We weren't communicating; I'd be long at work by the time she got up, and she'd be getting upset with me because she wanted to talk about the wedding at 10pm when I'm nodding off on the couch from getting up at 5. Any suggestions I made about the wedding she'd shoot down immediately. Mostly due to culture difference, me trying to find a middle ground since it really felt like it was completely for her family. One morning, being depressed, overworked, stressed, and feeling alone, I told her that we needed to rethink this whole wedding and that we had no business getting married now. What she heard was, "I'm breaking up with you"... which is not what I said, nor what I meant. She started running around with a knife threatening to kill herself. I saw this as a manipulation tactic, so I told her to go ahead and do it then. Of course she didn't, but she did decide to start choking me. I got away and ran off, and that was pretty much it, I told her that we were done. After the fact, weeks later, we talked, and she wanted to know why I was breaking it off that morning. I had no idea what she meant and then we put 2 and 2 together. I'm sure that got long, but here I am now. Writing that out was kind of cathartic and I realize now that the marriage likely would have ended in divorce anyways, due to communication failures from both sides. Anyways, so I'm single and just working. We did sell our house, and I bought one of my own. Not nearly as nice of course, but it works. Not sure what or where I'll be long term. I've been looking at keeping my American job, and moving to Latin America. I guess I'll see what happens.
Well no shit That was the first and only time she exhibited any behavior like that. The relationship was pretty perfect the previous 5 years. Just we both got to the point that we were pushed too far with stressors, and hadn't taken the time to take a step back with each other and both realize and acknowledge our emotions, and work together, and it all blew up that day. I was already on a downward spiral mentally; the straw that broke the camel's back was her calling one of my concerns and requests "stupid" in regards to the wedding a few days before when I asked to not do one part of it for my parents' sake. Latin weddings have this hora loca thing where the parents dress up and dance around; my parents are old and frail so I asked that we skip that part with my parents, and just have her parents do it and she wasn't having it. So I guess in the back of my mind I was kind of like, "you know what... fuck this." Just sucks how things got after years of thinking I found the right one. Anyways, onto the next one.
