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Sep 8th A pivotol day

Posted by Bill Bickford on Thursday, September 8, 2011,
Hello September 8th.  The memories you bring me are profound to say the least.  Today, 25 years ago, a skinny, 18 year old kid left home and joined The United States Navy.  The changes that lay ahead for him were extremely exciting, heartbreaking and defining.  Visiting places in the country such as New York, Hawaii, Seattle, San Francisco and living in beautiful San Diego to losing friends and students in horrible incidents.  Seeing the world and countries such as Japan, Korea, Philipines, S...
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Sep 2nd 2011 - 1 Year since

Posted by Bill Bickford on Friday, September 2, 2011,
Today, September 2nd, is a day which changed my life, in the best way possible.  However, at the time I did not know this.  I had been working for Florida Bank for almost 3 years and in the previous year, had been the IT Manager and also the Systems Administrator and doing a very good job of it.  However, I had a boss who was short sighted, clueless when it came to technology and who really had no business being the CIO in the first place.  As what happens more times than not, he thought he h...
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Hello September, Goodbye August

Posted by Bill Bickford on Thursday, September 1, 2011,
Well here we are in September.  August is now history and things are moving right along here.  I can't believe it's already been 3 weeks since I've been working over here in Iraq.  It's been a very nice change of pace and I'm seeing things from a totally different perspective now in my field.  It's very welcome and I look forward to  learning more and becoming better at what i do.  Today, September 1st is also my nephews birthday.  Josh turns 26.  Happy Birthday.
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