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July 31, 2008

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A Brief Update: Where I've Been and What's Happening

July 25, 2008

I know I've been quiet around here lately, but I'm still settling in at the Sun. I was also on vacation week before last. It might be odd to take a vacation after only being with the company a month, but I had this vacation -- an annual event for my family -- planned months before I started at the Sun. I worked all this out with Rob before starting work. Then after vacation, I've been busy trying to get some hanging projects polished off. I'm still in limbo a bit on some of these, so I'm hoping next week will be quite productive in terms of the number of things I see go live that I've been working on.

Also, my Zoe started kindergarten this week.

(Dramatic pause as I wipe the tears from my eyes.)

It's been a shock to Wendy and I, and also, Zoe has had a hard time adjusting to it. Wendy and I have really smoothered Zoe, we can admit that much. She hasn't had to go to day care, spending most of her free days with either Wendy or Wendy's sisters. So it was a bit of a shock for her when she's just one among a big group of other kids. Today, however, she had a great day, and didn't even cry once for us.

I've also had my work schedule flipped upside down. I'm up at 5, and I work an hour to catch up on email. Then, I'm working by 7:45 after dropping Zoe off at school. With the time change for my coworkers on the West Coast, I've usually already put in 5 or 6 hours when I see everyone appear on IRC or IM. There is some drama with Zoe after work -- "Please don't make me go back!!!" -- then bedtime, and another check of email and work stuff after that.

Needless to say, I'm whooped on this Friday, and haven't had much time for writing or linking here. I should have a nice relaxing weekend, though, and next week will certainly be better.

Oh, and congrats to my coworkers on moving into a new building this week. Here's to a new week for us all next week.... Cheers!

New Job at the Las Vegas Sun

July 4, 2008

I've been trying to write something clever about this for weeks now. I mean with the blogging attention paid to Loudoun Extra and Rob Curley and members of our group leaving the Post, I almost fell compelled to write something clever. But I've been working, and working hard. And enjoying the work, and the time just keeps slipping away. So now it's been three weeks I've spent on a new job at the Las Vegas Sun, and I haven't even mentioned it here yet.

It has indeed been an amazing few weeks. I'm feeling as productive as I've ever felt. I'm writing a lot of code and really enjoying work, and I still have time for life outside of work. If you look for me on YouTube and Flickr, you can get a hint of the kinds of things I'm working on these days. See our call for July 4 photo submissions to get an idea, too.

As new projects surface and time allows, I'll post about new things here. Hopefully, even more so than I did at the Post. But no gaurantees, in case the work is too fun to take time to write about.