I'm going to the UK!

**Jeremiah** · 6th February 06, 02:41 PM

My mother told my sister that she'd send her on a trip to anywhere in the world when she graduated college. Well, my sis graduates this spring and decided she was gonna take Trafalgar's tour of Great Britain. She kindly decided to bring me along. We will travel to England, Wales, Ireland, AND Scotland!!! I'm so excited! We leave from london on May 17th! Hooray! If this is off topic I'm sorry, I'm just really excited!

**Robin** · 6th February 06, 02:45 PM

Congrats!

Very nice...I'm sure you'll have a great time :grin:

**KiltedCodeWarrior** · 6th February 06, 03:19 PM

OK, I'm jealous!

But congratualtions anyway and have a great time!

**Jeremiah** · 6th February 06, 03:23 PM

I have to wait three more months though. That is some serious Jonesin! I've been meaning to ask you, What kind of programming do you do? I did C++ when I was a Comp Sci major before studying theology.

**Sherry** · 6th February 06, 04:01 PM

How very exciting for you both, & how very nice of your mother to give such a nice gift. Congratulations to both of you.

**GMan** · 6th February 06, 05:00 PM

Hooray for your sister! Glad that she invited you, but my only advice is to take me with you!

Have fun!

**KiltedCodeWarrior** · 6th February 06, 07:49 PM

Originally Posted by Jeremiah

I have to wait three more months though. That is some serious Jonesin! I've been meaning to ask you, What kind of programming do you do? I did C++ when I was a Comp Sci major before studying theology.

For anybody not in IT, ignore this post!

Jeremiah, I think this was directed at me, since I have not seen any posts that indicate Robin does programming..

Anyway, a little bit of everything. Believe it or not, I started out doing Cobol with IMS DB/DC. Moved on to include DB/2 and CICS. then jumped on the client/server bandwagon with VB, C, C++, SQLWindows (Gupta), and Unix scripts. Nowadays I focus on Java, web delivery, application servers, and business intelligence tools. The team I have focuses heavily on the delivery of reports and business intelligence to internal and external customers.

A ironic coincidence, one of my best buddies when I was in consulting was an ex-priest who had left the priesthood to go into IT!

**mkmound** · 6th February 06, 07:57 PM

Originally Posted by KiltedCodeWarrior

For anybody not in IT, ignore this post!

But a few of us are geeky enough to understand exactly what you said!!

BTW, you should leave the "/" out of the database name following IMS . . .

But back on topic -- Jeremiah, heartiest congrats! Sounds like a wonderful trip. (And like KCW, I'm quite jealous!)

Regards,
Mark

**Hamish** · 7th February 06, 11:14 AM

What an amazingly kind sister you have there, Jeremiah.

I have been privileged to meet up with several of kilted visitors to our shores from various parts of the world and I should be pleased to greet you too. Nearer the time, let me know your itinerary, as far as London and the south of England is concerned, and we'll see what can be arranged. I am just over an hour by train from London and can easily get there.

**starbkjrus** · 7th February 06, 01:15 PM

Ditto the congrats and ditto the jealousy.

Better get on the stick to order a new kilt for the occaision so you'll be sure it arrives before you leave. Wouldn't be good to find out it arrives the day AFTER you leave.

Have fun.