Busy

Whew, been a while since my last blog. Been Reeeeeaaallly busy at my day job, with a deadline last Friday. We almost even made it :P. I'm supposed to talk with the boss there start of Feb. about going full-time with them. I've got an interview process going on at company in Charlottesville as a backup in case they try to screw with me. I hope they don't, I like it there, however I am somewhat concerned about the resources they are going to have available. The full-time team on my project is going to be me and 2 other people, and the PM. One of the other people is still learning OOP, so they aren't going to be a whole lot of good for a while. I talked with the PM from Amentra, he says he's been voicing this concern for a while now, but doesn't get much response to it. They say they're planning on slowing development on the project, but the Amentra PM says they've been getting a ton of enhancement requests on the project already, and doesn't think the customers are going to take slowing down.

I also found out that the jerks who own the little piece of land between the one we're going to build on won't sell, and won't allow us driveway access. They were real jackasses about it too. Not sure why they're acting that way, its less than half an acre, and they don't have anything built on it, and you couldn't really build on it anyway.

The family has been doing well, we all got sick with a cold, and 2 of the kids got ear infections from it, but they did pretty well with it. The 3 oldest are still taking skating lessons, and are enjoying them. I'm glad they're doing that, keeps them somewhat active during the winter. I hope to be in our own house this summer. Would be nice to have a fenced yard that they can all go play in.

I finished up my MCSD.Net certification near the end of December, and I bought a Universal Subscription to MSDN. That one hurt the bank account :P Should come in handy though. Hopefully I'll have the RMS project completed soon, going to try to have all the parents put in the database this week, then get the kids in next weekend. Need to create a couple reports for them, but that shouldn't take long. Then I can start on what Big Oak wants to have done in order to sell the thing, and I can start refactoring to make it easier sell it in pieces and customize it. Also need to start working on a project for SunJester Studios. Haven't done much for Harmony Web lately, have to check in with them and see how things are going. I'd like to see something come out of Linked-In, but I don't know that I ever will. I'm going to have to give Rent-A-Coder another try, see if I can get something going there. I'd really like to be able to stay at home and work. My car is starting to give up the ghost, I'm looking to get something like an Altima, and we need to get a new van also, something that will carry 8 or that the passenger airbag can be turned off.