In a moment to make Jerry proud, I've been forced to make lists of what I'm trying to accomplish each day during my semi unemployment. So far, it's still going well. I'm up to halfway thru Wednesday. Only 12 hours behind!
Here's what's been accomplished since Monday:
Tuesday was also my grandfathers 82nd brithday. I went with Mom and my stepfather to Florence to have a birthday lunch with him. We went to a little diner out in the middle of nowhere (Go past Florence, hang a right, go 10 miles: welcome to Nowhere). I think he had a good time. I started the 99 bottles of beer version of Happy Birthday (after the 1st time I said "81 more times!", but didn't have the wind to keep going). My grandfather has seen a lot. He joined the navy when he was 17 and fought in WWII. He's run a garage, been a Methodist preacher, and ran the Florence city cemetary. He still fixes and tunes up lawn mowers for neighbors and grand-kids. And he still looks like he did when he was 65. The man is never going to look his age. I hope that's genetic.
My goal for this week between jobs is to try and catch up on the things I've been putting off. Thus far, it's been a productive day!
See, I need some time off!
Today is my last full time day at Open Biosystems. In 9 months we've gone from nothing to a fully developed website with online ordering, backend automated workflow, and some really cool tool that only true geeks can enjoy. I've ingrained enough "Russ-ness" into the site that I get to stay on in an on-call/part time position for a while. A long while I hope, I like working for Brian.
Looking back, there's a lot of code I wish I had done differently. A shopping cart that I wish was dumber - as it is it's a key part to the workflow system, which makes it difficult to add products that don't fit into the current workflow. There are things I'm proud of - the black box that pushes things through the workflow works great.
I've still got 2 sites I'm contracting for, plus the part time stuff for Open Bio, so I should stay busy. On the 31st, I start my new job with Jerry, where we can once again wreck havoc in tandem!
Today is also Brandi's birthday. She turns the ripe old age of 31 today. Plus, she's a grandmother (well, a step grandmother, but I think that still counts). So happy b'day Bran, you're now officially an old fart well into your 30's!
Today was the Open Bio trip to the hobby store for spare parts. We all needed replacement wings for our Fighterbirds, some of us needed more than a simple wing (some of us needed two). While there, I got a new body for my Mini-Z, the Porsche body having fallen on hard times in the past week. And since I was there, I got some wheels and tires.
After getting back to the office, everyone installed their new equipment and we went out to do battle. Once out in the field, we all noticed it was a little brezzy, but didn't think much about it. Foreshadowing. Makes life exciting, doesn't it?
A quick toss and my plane was in the air. Zipping toward the trees. I turned hard and right (away from the tress), and the stiff breeze caught my plane and made it rise high while turning right. It went so fast and so high, that I lost it in the sun. About the time I let off the throttle, I saw the plane leave the bright spot of the sun....
.... and crash into a tree, about 30 feet up. Lodged in good, too. It's been months since I flew my plane into a tree. I thought I was getting better. Oh well, I guess a strong wind is better than me. That's why I'm starting to concentrate more on cars. Fewer losses to trees.
About an hour later, Rod from AGI showed up with my plane. It seems Rod's a skilled shot with a thick piece of branch. Now I can try and lose it again tomorrow!
I didn't know it, but the background for the navigation over there to the right wasn't showing up right for everyone using IE. After moving a background tag froma table row to a table cell, everything should be copacetic now.
As you can tell, I don't have a whole lot going on right now.
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