Rubberband Wound

I haven’t been writing much - have you noticed? The last couple years I’ve struggled with getting back in to blogging. I really lost my connection to it after traveling around Australia at the end of university.

Anyhow, things have been busy with me, and that doesn’t leave a lot of time for blogging either. Work keeps me occupied quite a bit - late nights making deadlines and helping others hit their deadlines can really dig in to other activities. I’ve also spent more money than I should have on toys over the past few weeks. I picked up a Wii a couple weeks back and have been having a blast with Wii Sports; I’ve hardly even touched Zelda, though I will soon.

Yesterday I made the plunge and made a big purchase with the technology fund they give us each year at work - I bought a MacBook Pro 15", plus bumped the memory up to 2GB. I’m still getting used to it and setting up software (big things I still need are Subversion, Eclipse, Rails, and ColdFusion). So far though, it’s been amazing. It’s a fantastic machine, and I’m really enjoying the whole experience. I’ve been going over all the ‘Essential Mac Software’ lists and finding some nice tools, but I’m still figuring out just what I want and need to get the most of this. Ultimately my plan is to make my main PC a media center/gaming box hooked up to the TV and continue to use my server as just that. Which leaves me with two old towers that I don’t use for much - I may toss them up on CraigsList or donate them to the Salvation Army or something like that. They can’t be worth too much.

One of the hardest things of late has been not having much contact with K and A. I miss them both, but couldn’t continue with things as they were. I can’t bring myself to go in to any more detail than that right now, it’s too hard.

I think I’m moving soon, probably up to an apartment in Bloomington. It’s weird, because I was sure for so long that the next time I moved it’d be with K and A, and I didn’t think about it all that much over the past few months as things weren’t going well. Now here I am, going down a very different path than I would have believed possible a year ago.

Hopefully it’s all for the best…

And what else? Work is getting interesting, I’ve been split off from the development group to start heading up architecture and system design - a fairly foreign concept around our halls, and hopefully one that I can make familiar and powerful. I’ve been trying to make it to a few conferences in the coming months, but so far only SXSWi is confirmed. Some unforseen expenses at work will probably significantly dig in to whatever budget there had been for these things too, so I may have to pay my own way if I really want to attend some of them.

This is the part where I sign off and vow to blog more, though I have no idea if I actually will do it. I need more things to write about, I need more that is worth sharing with the world. Actually, I think I have those things - I just need to make the time to write them out on here. I’m going to give it a shot.