Rough Month

Thank goodness June is almost over. Its been been an emotional roller coaster caused by the actions of friends and family. Besides that I've had numerous and expensive car issues. I want a new car, but I'm holding back beause I really need to move first before I take on any more debt. Which of course brings up my long commute to work (140 miles round trip). It really hasn't bothered me until this month. That two plus hours everyday that I could be doing something else plus I'm in an awkward position in my social life too. I can't do too much down in Richmond cause I need to get home so I can leave early to get back down there. But there is only so much to do in Fredericksburg on the weekends. And I've already blown off two parties down in Richmond cause I don't want to drive down there on the weekend. Plus I've been extremely unlucky this month. Earlier this month I locked myself out of my house, I could of drove to my parents (I had my car keys) to get my spare, but I was in a hurry so I just kicked the door to the garage in (I have a little bit of an anger issue). So now I need to fix that.

But it hasn't been all bad. I finally had some time to work on my website and I have a little bit of freelance work coming my way. At my company's quarterly meeting pretty much every project shown I had a hand in. Getting credit is always a nice feeling; especially since I don't brag about my work enough. And I'm sure some other good things happen, but I can't think of anything else at the moment.

P.S. Yes I have notice that a lot of my posts have been complaining about driving and working late. Work isn't bad its just that the drive compounds any late nights at work.

Updates are on there way

Yes I haven't updated in a while, but that's because I've been putting the final touches on an entire site redesign. So comments are coming back and all of my old articles from my WordPress blog should be viewable once again (after some much needed spell checking). I almost forgot my RSS will be back too.

Speaking of updates is anyway else excited that ZFS is going to be in Max OS X Snow Leopard? Finally, a real man's file system.

Woohoo Friday

I've been working hard on a micro site and a screen saver for the past couple weeks and all the long nights are really starting to get old. But its so close to being done. Unfortunately I have a few things that I need to be cleaned up over the weekend. Hopefully they'll go quickly, but I think I just jinxed myself.

Damn you strict datatypes

Maybe its due to the fact that I haven't programmed in Java for while, but Java's strict data typing is really pissing me off. If I build an array of string arrays why do I have to typecast each of the string arrays when I access them? It doesn't make any sense, they've already been typecast once. I have a feeling this is going to be a problem when I start coding more in AS 3.0 too.