2007 half-time show (me, me, me)
So the year is half-over. Well, it had to happen eventually. Let's take inventory, pillar-style.
Volity Started ramping up in late March and really went into overdrive two months later when I had a conversation with daerr about how the web client ought to work. I've been working on that by myself since then - about one month, now - which is great, though it's sucked all the life out of one pillar, and made another teeter until I got a better sense of balance over it. I am so obsessed with this that I'm starting to feel doomed at the fact that it's not done yet, and start getting mad when I spend an entire day away from it because I'm instead having fun with my friends or something. We'll see where it is in another month.
Dating classicaljunkie and I have been dating this whole time. This is now officially longer than I've seen anyone else, and things develop and mature in nice ways. Subjectively, though, it doesn't seem like it's been as long as it has; for more than three months she's spent almost every weekday far away on business, in Houston or Toronto or the middle of Louisiana. (But the Volity and work projects consume my focus so wholly, it's not like I sit by the window pining while she's gone...)
Money In April, unsatisfied with the good-intentioned but poorly fitting pseudo-part-time setup I had with ITA, I acted as a truly independent software contractor for the first time and landed a contract with a company who advertised their need on jobs.perl.org. This has turned out to be a very nice fit. While we've had our differences in culture and implementation, this client has proven an excellent and clear communicator. This not only makes tasks easier to accept and accomplish, but it helps us work through our differences as well. It's rather an ideal first self-actuated contract, and I consider myself fortunate. It also pays enough that I decided it was safe to drop the ITA dealie just a couple of weeks ago. So, for me, the money thing is set for now.
Video I was on fire with video projects through April, cutting the best Gameshelf yet and shooting most of another one, but then cooled off as Volity became re-ascendant. The only really recent things I've made is the Youtube version of my Volity lightning talk, as well as Youtube cuts of some Gameshelf reviews, but these barely count. I am self-conscious about having left this pillar unattended for so long but I am so howlingly focused on the Volity web client that I really can't bring myself to spend any time on it right now.
Volity Started ramping up in late March and really went into overdrive two months later when I had a conversation with daerr about how the web client ought to work. I've been working on that by myself since then - about one month, now - which is great, though it's sucked all the life out of one pillar, and made another teeter until I got a better sense of balance over it. I am so obsessed with this that I'm starting to feel doomed at the fact that it's not done yet, and start getting mad when I spend an entire day away from it because I'm instead having fun with my friends or something. We'll see where it is in another month.
Dating classicaljunkie and I have been dating this whole time. This is now officially longer than I've seen anyone else, and things develop and mature in nice ways. Subjectively, though, it doesn't seem like it's been as long as it has; for more than three months she's spent almost every weekday far away on business, in Houston or Toronto or the middle of Louisiana. (But the Volity and work projects consume my focus so wholly, it's not like I sit by the window pining while she's gone...)
Money In April, unsatisfied with the good-intentioned but poorly fitting pseudo-part-time setup I had with ITA, I acted as a truly independent software contractor for the first time and landed a contract with a company who advertised their need on jobs.perl.org. This has turned out to be a very nice fit. While we've had our differences in culture and implementation, this client has proven an excellent and clear communicator. This not only makes tasks easier to accept and accomplish, but it helps us work through our differences as well. It's rather an ideal first self-actuated contract, and I consider myself fortunate. It also pays enough that I decided it was safe to drop the ITA dealie just a couple of weeks ago. So, for me, the money thing is set for now.
Video I was on fire with video projects through April, cutting the best Gameshelf yet and shooting most of another one, but then cooled off as Volity became re-ascendant. The only really recent things I've made is the Youtube version of my Volity lightning talk, as well as Youtube cuts of some Gameshelf reviews, but these barely count. I am self-conscious about having left this pillar unattended for so long but I am so howlingly focused on the Volity web client that I really can't bring myself to spend any time on it right now.