El Torrente

I can't believe how long it took me to write again. It has been an eventful couple of weeks.

I wrote my last entry the day before my birthday. It was shit and I had to call the cops because my roommate brought some awful people to the house that started to trash shit. That was really the beginning of the end (as if you couldn't tell I was looking for a place before that). I've been doing a lot of looking around since then for places, and found a place to buy. Yes buy. So, on top of finals (which went well) and work, I was going thru the process of buying a home for the first time, which I to sum up in one phrase would be 'cluster fuck' but now that I'm almost done with the whole process I'm pretty glad I did it.

I decided to go with a condo in Albuquerque, it's close to both skool and work, without being too close if you know what I mean. It's going to be relatively inexpensive considering I will be living in the place by myself, and if you ignore the buying costs of getting into the place. But I looked around for mortgages and all of that and got a really good deal on the terms that I finish a class and this program to make sure I got my shit together. It wasn't that bad and overall people seemed to be impressed and surprised with how organized I was and how I had read up on everthing prior to committing to it.

So now that my lease on my current place is up, and I haven't closed yet (but most likely this week) I am doing what I never wanted to do again. I am sleeping on a mattress in my old room at my parents house. Sigh. It's not that bad though, knowing that this is temporary (two weeks or less) makes it a lot easier. It's also nice not to have to pay the rent on the old place for an extra month with all of the expenses incurred in buying the new place and getting all of the things that I don't have right now, but will absolutely need. Like a new bed (fuck a twin size), like a new stereo (damnit it's not hi-def without hi-def sound), like pots and pans and soap and vacumns and dishes and tables and everything. Wow. Being domestic just sounds lame.

On the work front things appear to be going good. A co-worker and I are tearing thru the process of creating AJAX applications from scratch. We could wait for coldfusions new version to come out with CFAJAX in place, but the two of us are really in the mood to bypass all of that and learn how this works from the grond up, to gain the kind of knowledge that will carry over to any language or business process. It's been interesting, but just yesterday we built our first pseduo-application and are looking into starting an actual code library (which is far more organized than we have been in the past).

Also, the same co-worker and I will be going to OSCON in Portland, Oregon at the end of July. Should be a real fun trip with a lot of interesting information. We don't deal with a lot of what would be considered 'open source' at our work (due to legalities, I think we would all prefer it) but we are going to be taking the courses they offer on application development which should carry over anyway, and bring something new to the table we don't normally see in our enviorment.

Kind of a short update, I just knew I finally needed to do it again. I can't believe I missed the whole month of May, just too busy I guess. I'll hopefully be writing the next one from within the confines of my own home. Wow, what a summer this will be.