Well, things have been pretty quiet around here lately, and there's a good reason: after a year of unemployment, I have a shot at a contractor position with a company in Southern California. I'll be working from home, which is great.

Well, since I've been so busy lately, and have not been blogging as I ought, here's a humorous tidbit from the archives.

My good buddy Nate works for Raytheon, where the mechanical engineers just got a new stenciling machine... smile

I'm working on a new app in my limited spare time. It's an OS X app, and this post is geeky, so you can move along is that's not your bag.

Jodi and I played a game of Cribbage over lunch, and ran afoul of a question of play. Google, of course, had the answer.

Men, here's why you can't win smile:

I'm finally back writing Cocoa code again. I've already written (and temporarily abandoned) one app in Apple's Cocoa Mac OS X programming environment.

Ok, so I've been working on getting an interview with a web/IT company in So. Cal. Today I got an email from one of their staff, with a first round of questions.

Well, I managed to survive Monday's brain-bake, so obviously Murphy was not satisfied. Grilling a nice fat rack of boneless pork ribs tonight I got a rather severe burn to my forearm from the grill lid. Damn.

I'm Blogging This.

A while back I finished up and launched a new site for our church, the Tempe Vineyard. Jodi and I are the defacto webmasters, which is fine with us. It's giving us the exciting opportunity to be the web evangelists within the church, helping members and leaders understand they have at their disposal.

I've changed the search box (top right corner of this page) to use the weblog search feature.

Oy. 2 weeks ago I got a pair of nice rollerblades at a garage sale for $5. I've used them like 3 times so far.

I often forget that Memorial Day was intended for us to remember those who fought, and those who died, for this country in war.

Well I used to try and make sure I'd link to folks who were linking to me (according to Technorati), and I've totally fallen down on the job. Mostly it's because I'm lazy, but also because lately I've only been getting links from the usual suspects (Seth, Bill, Greg - hi guys!) whom I link to fairly regularly.

Thanks to Weird Al, I'm in my happy place, listening to Al doing the Backstreet Boys singing about EBay, Eminem rhyming about TV, and Avril Levine crooning over cheese pizza, kissing cousins, and roller coasters...

O'Reilly's Derrick Story interviews Brent Simmons.

Dave has some sort of weblog search running on Scripting News that uses Google.

Hm, ok, this is the second try. I added the redirect when posting a new thread trick to this form, so hopefully after posting it will return to the comments page.

I've made some changes to the site here - I've had feedback from some people that the discussion group view was a bit intimidating, so I've implemented a Radio-comments style comments interface.