Winter Doldrums

I’m officially sick of winter!  Tonight we’re supposed to get 3 to 5 inches of snow (with possibly a foot by the end of tomorrow) and yesterday we had a high of 12 degrees with a subzero, 25mph wind chill.

I watched the first season of Arrested Development.  Probably the second most hilarious sitcom I’ve seen (Seinfeld still reigns supreme).  I hadn’t appreciated it when I watched it a few times when it was on the air because I missed out on all the in-jokes and plot line.  It was sort of a proto-How I Met Your Mother. 

While the weather has been reluctant to change, my job situation has.  I’ve left a quasi-state government organization as an ASP.NET developer to developing tools and web applications for an anti-spam company in Ann Arbor where I get to write Ruby on Rails apps and Perl scripts on a Linux workstation!  Life is good!  The commute is an hour long, but it’s totally worth it.  I started on Monday.  I’ve also been doing some web development on the side for a little extra bonus. 

A new MacBook Pro may be in my future as well.  My 4.5 year old PowerBook G4 has a weak battery, a jury-rigged keyboard cable, a creaky case, and a damaged video cable that results in blacking out the bottom third of my screen.  With only 500MB of free disk space, it’s also groaning under the load of constant virtual memory swapping.

We spent MLKJ weekend in Virginia and got to see our friends there and see my parents (after missing them over the holidays).  It was very nice and relaxing.  It also makes me miss Virginia.  However, it’s interesting to reflect on how God’s timing for everything worked out with me finding a job in Michigan and changes in Virginia that would have been unpleasant to experience had we stayed.  The timing for this new job is great as well.  Feel free to shoot me an email if you’re wondering why I’m being so vague
Last weekend, we made a quick weekend getaway to Chicago for Molly’s birthday.  I had a BLAST playing Rock Band.  I faired fairly well on the Bass, but my drum and vocal skills are a bit lacking.  I think it’s especially difficult at 4:30am.  Julie even loves the game and we’ve tossed around the idea of getting our very own.  I just know that would be the end of my productivity and social life because not only would I be addicted to Rock Band, but I would spend additional hours playing Gran Turismo 4 (and 5 when it comes out).  Oh yeah and FIFA ‘08.