.. title: It's been a good week
.. slug: goodweek
.. date: 2010-10-19 10:30:42
.. tags: content, life, miro, work
The last 7 days have been really great. I was thinking about this
last night when it occurred to me that most of the entries on my
blog as of late have been notes from dev conference calls for work.
So I decided to write this up.
There have been several things that have made the last week great:
- Asheesh was hired as a
contractor at PCF. I'm really
psyched about this. Not just because I think Asheesh is my personal
messiah and will solve all my non-family-life problems, but also
because he's a great developer, a great person, and a great
communicator. I have a lot to learn from him. Having him work in
the PCF context will make that learning easier. Plus he's more
likely to solve my non-family-life problems because they'll probably
bug him, too. :)
- Morgan redid the PCF web-site
and it's fantastic.
- Verizon FIOS finally came to my area and I switched. Prior to
that, only Comcast was available for a reasonable broadband Internet
connection and they kind of suck. It's interesting to note that the
most friendly and most useful customer support person I talked to
was the one I talked to after going through their ridiculous menu
system and ending up at "leaving Comcast" (or whatever they call
it). Now, I've got better Internet service now for a cheaper
monthly cost and with better hardware. Plus the Verizon technician
who came to do the install fixed up the side of my house.
Seriously.
- My wife is 36 weeks pregnant. For reasons I don't want to go
into, this is a big deal and it's really great.
- I finished building my standing desk. I built it with studs and
leftover wood from other projects. It was cheap ($30 or so), works
great, and I really like it. I'll post pictures soon.
- I've almost finished building the changing table. I finished
staining it and now I'm doing a few coats of polyurethane. It looks
great so far. I hope it works out because it took a long time to
build. I also hope we get a few more warm days because otherwise
the polyurethane takes a long time to dry.
- My list of things to do before birthageddon is now trending
towards smaller (yay!).
- Miro 3.5 is almost done and it's looking great and I'm now using
the conversions feature fairly regularly. I'm hoping to do the Miro
3.5 release before the baby release, but ... they'll both come when
they're ready.
- I'm scheduled to play D&D (actually,
it's Pathfinder) on
Thursday after a two or three month hiatus. I have no clue what's
going on in the campaign, but I'm sure it'll be fun. Plus we'll get
to use the d20 I bought a few months ago that's all sparkly and
pretty.
And all this happened in the last week. It's been a good week.