jmu1's Journal: Subject (This is required)

Wow, if this is going down on my permanent record... then I should probably not say anything that would hurt anyone's feelings... nah.

Well, things are going pretty good these days. Holly and I are as happy as we can be, Gandalf(our cat) is as insane as ever, and the business is taking form(although it's not quite shaping up like we wanted it to previously). I've got a home, a wife, a car, a job, and an up and coming computer business. I love this time of year, everyone seems just a little less uptight, and the weather is great! It's been raining a lot, but we so very need it. I'm quite glad to be where I am right now, and look forward to bettering myself(speaking of which, in October I went to Raliegh and became an RHCE!!!).

I'm trying to actually sit down and teach myself to program... in Perl. I may have a combination of Perl and C++ for the particular program I am wanting to author for the business, but we'll blow that bridge apart when we come to it. I'm also taking up electronics as a little hobby. I've always been interested in electronics as my father is an electrician by trade. I used to help him out on small projects, nothing real interesting... wiring jobs and the like, but the electricity itself was a wonder of nature, harnessed by man. That alone was cool enough for me.

ERG. I just remembered that I need to check the heater. Last night we turned it on but the fan never kicked in... so we got a nice big cloud of smoke coming off of the dust-laden heat strips. I look forward to getting rid of that old heating/air unit and putting in the new heat pump. That should save us a gratuitous amount of cash during the winter(short as it is down here).

I'm out...