Well I'm moving hosting sometime soon...and that means opportunity for this site. I'm going to move to a provider that supports ASP.NET and gives me SQL server access. What this mean is that I'll be able to custom-code my site with cool stuff (eg: comments, pictures, whaterver the hell I want :-). Currently I'd have to install perl scripts to do anything...and that just doesn't interest me at all, but ASP.NET is what I do at work so it should be breazy to put something dynamic up. Of course I've started a project for my Multi-User blogging SystEm (MUSE, it's random, yet playful). It'll take me forever to finish and I'll probably give up 1/2 way through, but I love designing new projects (I just don't love grunt-coding them :-). [Notice to Kolb] This has also changed my plans for the picture site generator I was thinking about since I'll have a DB to store info in.

Work is crazy again. The code-freeze is over, and NBTA went over well...lots of good demos and people chomping to be a part of our customer beta. Apparently the product was considered alpha...so now we head toward beta. We have 4 weeks of coding until Beta code-freeze...then 2 weeks of QA...then official beta (tuesday after labor day). So this means that I'll be coding like a mad-man...fun.

I had a good 4th of July weekend...lots of family time, huge fireworks, and 2 trips to the emergancy room. My mom ripped a tendon in her foot when she tripped on a step and Leah had horrible intestinal pain yesterday...both are fine now.

The house has progressed minimally...we get to have our pre-building meeting sometime soon. Then the real crazy stuff starts.

Work is going well, though I'm beginning to want my own team again....start a new project design, etc. We're in a code-freeze so we can only do critical bug fixes...last week we did 1...yeah. I don't really like maintenance cycles...debugging for 2 months, waiting for QA for a month, then more debugging is not my idea of fun. I'll definately try to get onto a new product after a 2.0 release (currently 1.0beta).

I haven't talked to my old friends in a long time...it's beginning to worry me. The fact that I call them "old friends" is distressing enough, but we don't hang out anymore. That's not to say Lisa won't let me hang out, I hang out with my brother all the time. I'm thinking we're just not trying. I don't call them to make plans, they don't call me and slowly but surely we'll slip away into work, other friends, and family. Maybe this week will be different...

I have a tendancy to ramble...but you knew that already.