Archive for October 8th, 2008


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Well, I haven’t quite made 3 posts within a week, but certainly I’m doing better than I had been. Work has been pretty good this week. I’ve starting working on a pair of projects, one small and one larger. Both are upgrades to web apps that I’m responsible for. My new job is going to involve a significant amount of project management and coordination. I am looking forward to the challenge, as I’ve not done a lot of that in the past.

I really need to “get out” one of these days. I haven’t had a geek outing since early August when Joe and I went to see the Star Wars exhibit at the SMM. I’m not sure what I want to do tho, but I think it needs to involve technology. Ideally it wouldn’t involve spending a lot of money, as I don’t have a lot to spend on toys and I need to come up with some ideas for Christmas anyway. Speaking of purchasing technology, our home theater receiver (Kenwood VR-407) flaked out. :( We found a deal on a Denon AVR-588 to replace it, but I would have preferred not to spend $$. The new one should meet our needs for some time to come, as it handles HDMI as well as our current video connections. It also has dual s-video outputs, which will be nice for movie nights whenever we do one again (w/projector).

I’m also trying to think of a direction to go with our church website. I was trying to design it with some CMS features. It works okay, but I’d like something better. The problem I’ve had with CMS packages I’ve found is that the calendar integration often wasn’t great. Right now I’m thinking I might go the route of creating a Google calendar account to use with the site. One big plus of doing that which I can think of is that the church administrative assistant (secretary?) should be able to update it via Outlook if we set things up right. I’ll have to play around a bit with Outlook (*gag*) and see how well that works.

I went to my first college football game this past weekend (which is a little pitiful since I work at one). Met up with a friend from my Prucha Hall days before the game and we touched base again after the UWRF Falcon victory! It was nice to see her again and I hope we can visit again sometime in the not-too-distant future. Ten years is too long. :)

I should really get to bed now. I tend to be pretty wiped at work the next day if I stay up much past 10 o’clock. How sad is that?