Well, I've successfully made the move to open source software for my email, web browser (I moved that a while ago), calendar, and RSS Reader. I moved to Mozilla products for everything but the RSS Reader, I'm using Thunderbird for email, Firefox for browser, and Sunbird for calendar and tasks. I was using Thunderbird's built-in news and RSS reader, but on the last side job I've been working on I've been modifiying RSS Bandit, and it has a great many more features than Thunderbird does, so I've just switched over to that. I'm looking into moving to Eclipse for my development environment, but I'm going to need a VB.Net plugin for that, and I haven't seen one out there. There is a C# one, but I do some stuff in VB as well as C#, so I'm going to have to keep VS.Net around for a while longer I think. I already use NAnt to build, NUnit for unit tests, and I'm looking at NCover for unit test coverage. The only thing I really miss is the Journal feature in Outlook, I used to use that as a timer for projects I was working on, but I'll find something for that, tho I wish it was built in to Sunbird. Maybe I'll look into writing a plugin for it. I was starting a calendar app on sourceforge, but I could never get CVS to work to connect to them.
On the home front we had an un-birthday party for the older 3 kids on the 14th. We rented a moon-bounce, cotton candy machine, and sno-cone machine. We had about 20 kids over, they had a great time. This weekend my Great-Aunt Donna came in from Michigan. One of her grandchildren is turning 13 and is having his bar-mitzvah today. We're going to be doing stuff with them tomorrow and Monday. Brenna got accepted to the TAG program for next year at her school.
I've been negotiating with NTelos about my job requirements, I gave them a deadline of June 6th to either have my offer ready, or to provide a 6 month contract extension at $55/hour. One of the supervisors at the contracting company I'm working for them through went there on Friday to talk about the contract. He invited me to go to lunch with them, but I had already planned on taking the day off, so I couldn't go.
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