personal

It's been a while since I last posted here. Just a short little update on a few things. First of all, I've changed employers; I'm currently developing in Flex, which has been an interesting and fun learning experience. I use Flex Builder 3 as my development Environment, but since the Linux Beta of it is somewhat limited at the moment, I've end up running the Windows version on Windows XP Pro in a virtualbox on my work laptop.

When having to choose between the following for the free time I have outside of spending them with the girlfriend, it always seem I have energy and time for only three of them:

1. Read the 50 or so blog in my Google Reader list.
2. Watch anime.
3. Play Armed Assault, Sim City 4, or City of Heroes/Villians
4. Write in my blogs about above activities

it always seems the last option loses out. Writing isn't something that I can seem to do quickly or efficiently as I've seen others do.

I've set the bar for myself to leave the house some time over the weekend1 and attend Lafayette CampFiber tomorrow. I've been getting a bit down and burnt out lately; hopefully this might get me out of that funk and maybe get me some ideas.

[img_assist|nid=174|title=|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=75]Spend most of the day yesterday offline because Hurricane Gustav was coming through1 town. Actually, I didn't have to be offline because we never lost power, through it did flicker on and off at times. It sounds like we were some of the luckier ones, as some parts of town were without power.

"A line of proven crappy code is worth 10 lines of clean unproven code." - Bob at the Daily WTF.

Just something I need to keep in mind while working on my current project at the office.

Ever had one of those days where the last thing you want to do after working all day on a computer at the office is to go home, get on a computer, and type out a blog post?

I think I had that month...

After 28 years of existing on this Earth, I can now finally say that I've handled a firearm. A friend and I went to the nearby indoor range (+1 Eyes Bleeding Warning: Gratuitous use of the blink tag!). He brought his .22 rifle that he got from his father-in-law along with two boxes of ammo for it, and we rented a 9mm Glock (Most likely the Glock 17) and purchased a box for it. Turns out that my friend had never shot a handgun either, so that was a new experience for both of us.

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I actually did it. On Thursday, I got all of my equipment together and went out to the local ice rink to play some pickup ice hockey for the first time in a year and a half when I injured my shoulder as a result of playing (Impingement syndrome was the diagnosis from my doctor). I've been itching to play again for nearly a year now, but the combination of wanting to nurse my shoulder to 100% plus life cutting in (job change, girlfriend, etc.) made that rather difficult. Plus I wanted to go out the public skating sessions on a regular basis and get some exercise back instead of starting up hockey cold (like I did three years ago when I sprained my ankle during that pickup).

I guess it's just the signs of aging.

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Got an electric guitar from a friend for pretty cheap, so here's my small collection of guitars!