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Traversing The Countryside
December 2007 Issue
We are pleased to include a special article this month on the Robert & Claudia Wheeler Family:
Here is what has been going on with us lately. October 5th was my last
day working for ACS. I went to Symantec NetBackup 6.5 training on the
7th for one week in Springfield, Oregon. Then, I flew to New Jersey and
stayed in a Super 8 Motel in Somerville for a week while I waited for
my start date (which was Oct 22nd) with Symantec working at Citigroup
in Warren New Jersey. I have a six month contract working with their residency
program where I am assisting Symantec (formerly Veritas) with a NetBackup
6.5 migration project. The project involves building three new NetBackup
6.5 domains with one master and three media servers which will soon have
multiple clients and SAN clients added in the next few months. Citigroup
is the largest and most complex NetBackup installation worldwide and they
do things a little differently than most companies, so there are many
Symantec consultants and engineers working on this and other projects.
I am doing a lot of documentation including MS Word, Excel, and Visio
for diagrams, so I am learning a lot about these products as well. It
is a great experience, but has been quite challenging.
I am also currently going to DeVry University (on-line) and will be done
with my Bachelor’s of Science in Technical Management at the end
of February 2008. This has also proved to be quite challenging as it is
taking up quite a bit of my time and I am having to spend a great deal
of time reading.
We were going to just have me stay out here with Claudia and the kids
staying in Phoenix for the six months, but this has proved too difficult
for our relationship and for the kids. They do much better with both parents
in the home. I can see why being a single parent would be almost impossible.
I flew back to Phoenix on December 20th and spent the few days before
Christmas with the family. On Friday, I had several people over from my
former job (ACS) and we had a fun get together complete with Karaoke and
food. Claudia made her own tamales this year as a test and is planning
on doing it each year going forward. We had a nice Christmas Eve party
dinner with Mom, Dad, us, Becky’s family, and Aunt Julie (she took
all of these pictures). After the Gringos left (around 9 PM), the Latinos
came by and we had another party until close to midnight. This has been
our tradition for several years now. Then, we spent the day at Becky’s
house eating a lot of food.
On December 25th, I flew back with Claudia and the kids on a very empty
flight and we arrived back in New Jersey at around midnight. The next
day, the kids spent most of the day running around outside, exploring
all of the new surroundings. It’s cold, our house is extremely small,
and everything is new here, but we are all very happy to be together as
a family.
For the next four months, I will be working at Citigroup and will see
where that leads me in the future. I am hoping to find a job back in Phoenix
so that we can move back into our house and get out of the cold, but it
all depends on what happens during the next few months.
This is what is going on with us right now. We are happy to have a place
to stay and a job, even though we miss PHX and everyone.
--Robert and Claudia and Family
Front Page
Family at Grandma & Grandpa Wheeler's
Back: Brian, Claudia, Robert
Front: Scott, Suzi, Andrew
Note from the Editor:
Thank you for your submission! We enjoyed hearing the update on your family. Hope you enjoy your time in New Jersey and take advantage of site seeing while you are there. May you be safe and enjoy being together! While this is a Missouri posted newsletter we do welcome articals and updates from our families who wish to share. We enjoy the news and keeping family history alive!