n u l l g e l

We love our new house.  We’re finally settling in and it’s been going fairly smoothly.  Until this morning…  See, I set up a wireless computer network for our house, as always, but apparently, THAT ISN’T ALLOWED in our neighborhood.  We got a knock on our door and a subsequent door bell ring (thanks for waking Sophia, guys) at about 8 AM.  It was the neighborhood association.  Well, two of them, anyway.  They told me that the association had agreed that wireless networks were too insecure and a possible health risk.  So, they are banned.  This is just ridiculous.  But I guess it explains why I didn’t see any other wireless networks when I set mine up.  Ah well.  I prefer a wired network anyway.  Sorry Amanda.  :[

It looks like we’ll be closing on our new house today. It’s actually the house we wanted the first time we went looking for a house two years ago. We offered the asking price back then but the sellers went with another bidder for some reason. We were devastated because we really thought that God had planned that house for us. Well, it looks like He did. He just needed it for a while first. That’s only the first bit of good news.

I was also promoted to a level 3 software engineer today! All I asked for was a jar of Peter Pan but I can buy lots of jars of Peter Pan now.

Now all we have left is to move ALL of our crap to the new house. Yay…

P.S. I really appreciate the help everyone has given us to get us into this new house. I REALLY appreciate George and Janet’s help, especially George in having to deal with that crazy (with a capital B) agent.

I just got a weird comment on a very old post. It’s probably comment spam, but Askimet didn’t catch it if it was. The comment did get me to read the post again though. If you didn’t bother to read (or re-read) the post, it was mostly about when Amanda got her Macbook Pro. The post wasn’t all that interesting, but the Mac vs. PC sorta-vs. Linux discussion that followed was. At least to me. Especially, because I’m typing this post in Linux. Amanda loves her Macbook, especially after we added another gig of RAM to it, but instead of joining the Mac cult myself, I’m testing the waters of Linux. More specifically, Ubuntu Linux. I friggin’ love it. For the first time, I’ve installed Linux on my main computer and am still using it after a week. It’s been almost five months, in fact. I’m really holding back now, as I could sing Ubuntu praises for the next hour or two. The fight I have now, is at work. Long story short, I just can’t use it full-time there yet. I’m certainly trying to, though. I’ve managed to port one of my apps to Linux using Mono, but the other app uses a Windows-only mapping component. I’m looking into open-source alternatives to said component, but it might be tricky. And yes. I’ve taken VMware for a spin, but thanks to XP license crud, it’s a bust. There I go again, going into too much detail. I’ll save the rest for comments, if there are any. Ubuntu, yes. Vista, no. KTHXBI.

Ah yes. Many people who know me, will probably be thinking of me today as they search the internets. Why not take some time and learn some LEGO history today? Go on. You know you’re interested. Of course, something about this anniversary isn’t lining up with me. I did most of my speeches in my public speaking class on LEGO, (one was on Atari) and the books that I have say that the creation date of the modern LEGO brick was sometime in 1955. Hmm…