MS wireless Mouse

[John Esak]

Wow! Thanks Smitty.  Much appreciated.  *EVER* little bit helps.  I look at
*every* single new thing that might possibly help me do my thing.  I've seen
some pretty cool bluetooth stuff that works with my little Linux PDA. I'll
check this one out

But as for my email.

My new email is john.esak at 21appr.com.  I have been using this for the past
couple months on this list and elsewhere since January 1, but I don't think
anyone really noticed.  I now work for Tim Barr at 21st Century Appraisals
out of Harrisburg, PA (actually, main office is in Middletown, PA).

I have to say... working here since the start of the year has been the
nicest experience. Everyone at the company is just fantastic. I am now part
of a really great team that handles so many far-flung (filePro-based and
other) systems. It is challenging and fun, mostly because of the good people
and terrific atmosphere.  Plus, must say, I love working at a place where
there is an unbelievable main web (computer) center (yes, a real computer
floor, huge dedicated A/C system routed directly to the racks and the whole
ball of wax)... all with extraordinary equipment (the racks are full of
latest HP servers, jukeboxes, NAS storage, bonded T1's, etc., etc.) complete
with a terrific guy whose job it is to handle the maintenance of hardware
throughout the place. Others take care of networking, still others do web
design, more on back-end stuff and documentation...   another handful of us
doing filePro.

At Nexus, I was doing *all* of this stuff myself. The budget was terrible,
the atmosphere was non-existent to rotten, the equipment was on last legs,
etc., etc.  I now work in a beautiful building or from home, but I *like*
being on the spot and intimately involved (which is slowly happening I
hope... I think they are going easy on me though for the start since I am
still essentially recovering from a 6th (yes a 6th and hopefully *final*)
cornea transplant.

Boy, I have to also say, their filePro programs are gigantic, complex and
deployed all over the state of Pennsylvania doing million dollar jobs
everywhere they are installed.  It is kind of humbling to see how cloistered
and parochial I used to be with my own ideas of networking, maintaining
hardware and writing programs for what I thought was a well organized family
company.  This entire organization makes Nexus look to me like the one-man
IT operation it was.

So, to respond to your question about my email address...  :-)  It is now as
listed above, and here john.esak at 21appr.com though I will still, of course,
keep john at valar.com (and that tiny company of the same name going.  However,
I doubt it will be releasing any new products any time in the near future.
Ooh!  FilePro NEWS!!

Not incidentally, there are several (actually many, many) other companies
under the Barr enterprise.   one of them is a training company. it is being
arranged that sometime in the upcoming months? year? ... I will be doing
some Expert filePro training at the facilities available.  Neat, huh?
Mind-blowingly, the hotel rooms five minutes away are only $49 a night!
And, they have free broadband Internet, a refrigerator and microwave... and
free breakfast!  Could not be a more ideal place to learn the vagaries of
our beloved product, eh?

I'll keep you all informed. as this aspect (and other sides) of my new
employment and new life progress.

Thanks for asking. :-)

John Esak
21st Century Appraisals, Inc.
Middletown, PA
(717) 985-0200 xt 1141
www.21appr.com



  -----Original Message-----







   From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of
SmittyUSN1
  Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 5:05 AM
  To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
  Subject: OT: MS wireless Mouse


        I don't have John Esaks email address or I would have contacted him
off list,  for those that didn't know it,  Microsoft has a Wireless Laser
Mouse 5000 with a very unique feature that lets you (one click) ZOOM into a
custom designed block of your screen, perfect for viewing tiny fine print or
photos.

        Wayne (Smitty) Smith
        Port Orange, Florida


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