Recent stuff

Yesterday: So, , and I went over to a couple friends' house yesterday. We guys had fun, watched the kiddos and discussed lots of stuff. Quite a bit about Mormonism (they're Mormon, I'm converting from nothingism to Judaism). Now, I recall reading up about Mormonism before, back when a family member was thinking of joining (not to mention, I love studying other religion's beliefs). But I've forgotten quite a bit, and honestly, I never mind learning more. So I'm reading up on it, and the various sects, and I found out that just like Judaism, Mormonism has an "Orthodox", "Conservative", "Reform" and "Reconstructionist" split. To me this is interesting (almost funny, but not quite). [source]. Anyways, I may check out a book or two about it to learn more. And of course discuss it with more (assuming he's OK with that).

Yesterday dinner: All of us (,, myself, , Tiny and ) went to Yak and Yeti, a wonderful Nepalese/North Indian buffet/restaurant. The food was great! The lamb was good, the various chickens were good. I couldn't spell half of the things I ate there and liked, but if you happen to be near enough to Broomfield, you might try it.

Work: I got the database, data access layer and business logic layer done. Well, mostly that is. I've still got to create a PropertyComps structure (not even going to call it a class), a function to call them up, and a MySql ASP.Net membership provider (although I'm really reconsidering using that, I think it'll depend on how the UI is supposed to work). Speaking of the UI, I should be getting the web design from them Monday, so I will probably review it, make my test pages use the proper UI, and create those simple pages that I hadn't yet because they were so simple. I'm on-target. Oh, and I think the pay side of things will come out alright in the end: Signal was paying me a certain amount, these guys almost the exact same amount. Signal was putting in an extra $500 a month to help defray medical insurance. Well, I was paying $800/month for a family on that. I can get private insurance with similar benefits (a little higher on the deductible, but office visits are just $25, and pregnancy isn't covered) for $300/month, which is kinda what I was paying out of paycheck before. So, we'll see with the first full paycheck, but I think things'll be OK. I get a REALLY nice work laptop too (been using my personal Celeron 1.8GHz for awhile now...): 3.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1.5 GB ram, 120GB hard drive. It will kick butt. I could (and probably will) totally virtualize the devel web server and devel db server (to help test the configuration). I get it (in theory) on Thursday. Fun fun fun!

The future: Well, we've got a friend who's almost certainly going to move in, at least on a trial basis. Got to make room for them (her and her 1yr old kid). That means clearing out the baby room (which we don't use except to change , and he's getting big enough to do that on the floor now), putting that stuff in either the inlaws' basement or our garage. It also means clearing out the garage of all of the junk. Which means I need to get a dumpster out here. Gotta remember that, maybe for end of month.. Need to find winning lottery/PowerBall ticket (yeah, that's going to happen, but if it does, you'all will be the ... er... 10th or so to know). My brother's finally getting married, although I don't know how much of a ceremony they'll have. It'll be July 4th, though, so it'll be easy to remember. I'm looking forward to all of this snow melting. We got the 4th, yes 4th, batch of snow since Friday. Driving this morning was not fun, let me tell you.

Well, I'll probably sign off now. Need to finish eating the macaroni and cheese. Oh, one last thing: We got the Avatar: The last airbenter DVD (1st season, all episodes) box set yesterday, so we've been watching them a lot recently.