Okay, a few things in my life:

a) spoke with the Rabbi at Micah about converting. Nice, formal program. Also rather expensive: ~ $750 a year for an associate membership, and that's 50% of the normal membership. I'm (hopefully) getting a new place - depending on how the numbers come out, I come... annoyingly close to having no money (I think the smallest I might have would be around 200 a month, but still, that's cutting things a little close, there's always the occasional dinner out night, or ooh-gotta-have-this-book, or lets-put-mezuzahs-on-each-door months...). In addition, the Rabbi really wants to know that we will bring up our kids Jewish. I think that since we're trying to have kids, get a house, etc.., that it's just too much stress to work with right now,

b) we're trying to get a house. Yesterday I was completely depressed, as the processor person from my mortgage company basically told me there's these conditions, and one of them that I hadn't heard from the acceptance officer was that I have to close my two real credit cards. Yeah, and you want my firstborn son?? I mean, they want me to just pay them off and close them. I'm using them to help me build credit (and it's working, my credit score for the last 6 months has been above 720, so I'm prime lending material). I plan to add to one of them soon, I don't want to blow $800 that I don't necessarily have to make them happy. So I thought it would all fall through. Then I find out today that they think that I still have my old car, which got paid off SIX MONTHS AGO. Grrrr... So SST gets a nastygram call from me tomorrow morning when they open. I'll be polite, but damned firm. I mean, if it was just a month or two, I could understand. But SIX MONTHS!! Once that's cleared up, those conditions should go away. And they didn't even read the contract, the seller's putting in $6K, not 5. They basically just threw the money to UPS these worthless papers to me - if they had CALLED me I could have helped them..,

and c) my development work has kinda stalled. I did make a basic NMAP protocol API in PHP - it logged in, got folders and message lists. Could even retrieve the message. But now I'm wondering if it's worthwhile - they (Novell and the Hula Project) seem to like modweb alot, so *shrug*. I'm thinking to playing with Java instead, now. Dunno. When I compare developer communities, .Net is so Microsoft-dominated, it doesn't seem like there's alot of 3rd party or open/shared source libraries or code out there for .Net, whereas Java has LOTS of communities, and lots of non-Sun based development going on...

So, fascinating life, hopefully in 3 months it's a LOT easier on me, whatever way the winds blow..