Four of Six sections of the new site are complete with the career and biography sections falling behind. What else is planned, you ask?

Pictures

We have taken far too many pictures of Gilbert but aside from that there are a few of the family over Thanksgiving. Both my mother and Mackenzie's mother visited for 3 days and we had a fun weekend at the dog park, Ikea, and several restaurants in Addison and Plano.

Beer Reviews

I have reviewed 7 beers thus far and 5 more bombers are chilling in the fridge. I am admittedly a novice at the craft but improving with every drink. This is one of the more entertaining hobbies I have tackled without a doubt! Please check out the beer section of the site and feel free to send me suggestions or comments at bwoodle@gmail.com.

Book Reviews

I'm taking the site in another new direction and writing reviews for the new books I read. I recently finished Chris Jericho's A Lion's Tale and Mick Foley's Foley is Good: And the Real World is Faker than Wrestling, and I'm currently working on McMafia by Misha Glenny. I'm interested in reviewing these books to improve my own writing skills which I feel have faltered a bit since graduation. The final book I am working on is Microsoft Visual C++ Windows Applications by Example to prepare for my new career at Corepoint Health, which brings me to the next section...

Career

My career chapter at Raytheon will be complete at the end of this year. The experience is great and I plan on writing a good recap of it for the career section of this website in the coming weeks. I'll have a 3 week break in between jobs and aside from holiday travel I intend to complete my Blackjack Card Counting Android project, make improvements to the Shadow Warriors website, finish this website, and complete the aforementioned Visual C++ book.

Subject says it all. The resume reflects my new position and I've added six new picture albums to fill in the gaps.

For Christmas my mother got me a T-Shirt from thinkgeek.com that detects 802.11 (wifi) signals and shows 0-5 bars based on the signal strength in the area. Needless to say, its been an entertaining night - but don't expect to see me wearing it at the bar. Other than that I was given several pounds of coffee, three starbucks gift cards, 2 travel mugs, and five pairs of slacks for work. It was a good holiday!

I have been offered a job as Software Engineer I at Raytheon. I gladly accepted the offer and will be starting on Jan. 14th - 2 days after my 23rd birthday. I've recently joined Linked In. It's not very intuitive to use but it seems like a useful site. I'd like to see it expand into forums for people in particular fields to discuss problems and look for help on specific topics. We'll see what happens, but for now I have an account - feel free to add me.