We moved our bed and Abby's bed up onto the second floor of the house last weekend. It's a little strange sleeping in the new room, even though I did sleep there for seven or eight years. The bed is in a different place, and the room is a different color now. The whole house sounds different these days.
Anyway, I think the thing that I miss most about not sleeping downstairs is that I would roll over in the morning while Berta was in the shower, and look over at Abby's bed, and occasionally she would be awake. She would sit up in bed and smile at me, and pick up each stuffed creature in turn and say things like, "This [is Mr.] Bunny" or "This [is a] bear." I would tell her to bring one of them over, so she would climb out of bed and walk over where I'd lift her into our bed. Then she would point at my nose and say "This [is a] nose", and eyes and hair, etc. And then I would ask her if she wanted to go see Mommy, and she would ask, "Where's Mommy?" And we'd climb out of bed and go find Berta, who was usually in the kitchen maintaining the cats. Yeah, I miss all that.
I registered for a class in the Spring at West Chester. It's an Effective Writing class. Unlike the two classes I've taken so far, which have relied mostly on empirical "do you understand this information"-type questions for their grades, I suppose that the writing class is going to be more subjective. So, there goes my average. Contrary to what you read here, I belive can write perty good if'n I puts ma mind to it.
Work is progressing. There is a lot of stress, but I think things are actually getting done. I'm going to try to obtain some kind of "how to schedule a project" book or seminar or something, and I'll also try to learn to use Microsoft Project more effectively. If I can get good at it, I'll have one more marketable skill.
I hesitate to point you at the website for Kruse's new product, kSkin, because it's kind of incomprehensible. As usual, management bloat has been affected to an otherwise concise topic. I think the product has validity, but I think we're going to have a hard time explaining to developers that it does more than just skinning while at the same time getting them to look at it at all if "skin" isn't part of what it does.
On the plus side, I am quickly learning the intricacies of .net, which has many, many fallabilities, let me tell you. Ugh. Don't even get me started on the collection classes. The main issue is that you can't ever tell whether a variable is a pointer or not, and you never know if a .net Framework function/structure will treat a variable as a pointer or not.
Otherwise, I need to update my ranger for tomorrow's game. I think there is some experience to add. Maybe. I might level up. Woo-hoo!
