Just kidding about all that hoopla. I've had a great week. For celebration, I've had some of my favorite food (of course). Mama-Jessie's pizza on my birthday, and on saturday we had home-made: Italian Nachos, Italian Cream Soda, and cheese cake (not Italian?). YUMMY! I also got a new game to try out: Smash Bros Brawl. I've managed to avoid video/computer games pretty well, but I made a concession for this one because 1) I knew I would like it and 2) it will be for playing with company, not me spending all hours paying by myself.
My work has been pretty busy and stressful as of late. I'm putting in a lot of hours trying to meet a deadline that is coming up quick. I just seem to keep hitting unexpected obstacles that take some extra time to work through, and so progress keeps slipping. It's been a great learning experience though, and I have enjoyed the opportunity. [FEEL FREE TO SKIP THE REMAINDER IF THIS PARAGRAPH IF YOU ARE NOT TECHNICALLY INCLINED ;-) ] For those who care for my detail, most of my work is in modifying business services that work with Host data using QPP, CPP, and occasionally some JCL and COBOL. But right now I'm developing a new small application from top to bottom, which means completely new: UI in RAD using java, jsp, and xml; services, classes and methods in QPP/CPP, and SQL and tables in the database. So the biggest holdups have come from working the RAD environment, because of all the complexity, and no one in my group has ever done much UI work.
Jess has been able to leave the site she did not enjoy (hostile environment), and go back to floating which she really enjoyed. So that is awesome, and long in coming. Last Sunday, Jess went through the house hiding plastic eggs with goodies around, and I got to go hunting. It was fun, and she always comes up with some clever hiding spaces that require some hints to find. In fact, we found one egg just this morning. Last year there was an egg in our file that I didn't find for months. :-)
And that's about it. No more fish for the tank for a few weeks, so that any lingering disease/parasites can die off. Also, I'm trying to really grow my tank's small critter population (copepods, amphipods, etc) so that when I do add a Scooter Blenny, he will have lots of tasty-muchie treats to enjoy.
Good Night and Good Luck.
