Joe's New Blog

Nothing special, this is just my third effort at writing a blog about my life and what goes on in it: Hobbies, cooking, work, maybe the occasional book or DVD review, and so forth. Nothing really noteworthy, but this is sort of a little subset of my world...

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Updates to my life...

So, it's two days before Christmas, and I think it's been several months since I've updated the blog, or virtually any other of my online presences. I apologize for that to anyone who bothers to read any of the stuff, but that's kind of the way I've always been. I always try to keep up to date for a while, but I get sidetracked and off course, and then I get frustrated because I haven't kept up, and then I drop things altogether. It's a bad habit of mine, but such is my life.

I've mostly just been working and going home for the past four and a half months. I've been working at Denton County MHMR here in Denton, doing database and web programming. The database programming part is pretty decent, kind of the stuff I've been doing for the past ten years at my old job in Oregon. The web programming is causing me major problems, but I'm gradually getting a grip on it. The fact that everything is disconnected, with the server not really having control over what the client side is doing, is causing me to have to rethink how I do most of my database stuff, but it's starting to come a little easier, I think. At least I hope so, because I really need to get some kind of actual product developed in the near future. So far the management has been pretty relaxed about things, but I know that if I don't actually have some kind of demonstrable productivity in the near future, that relaxed attitude is going to tighten up a fair amount. And my six-month probationary period is coming to an end in a couple of months, which would be just the perfect time for them to let me go if they wished to do so.

Anyway, I'm not going to try to update everything that's been going on, but it's been kind of a hectic run-up to Christmas. The roommate moved out a short time ago, or is in the process, kind of, so the girlfriend and I have been trying to get his old room renovated into being our master bedroom before one of her friends comes by to visit after Christmas, so there's been a lot of cleaning and painting and little household things to take care of. And, in the meantime, there's trying to find all the presents, get the ones sent off to the family in Oregon, baking cookies and things of that nature, and trying to find a new car, since my old one died a couple of months ago.

Hopefully, in the midst of all of that, I'll be able to keep a little more up to date in here. We'll see...

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