Lots of stuff going on at the moment. Last weekend I drove up to northern Maine to bring my mom back her cat. It takes about 7 hours to get there, so I spent most of the weekend in the car driving. They’ve got a nice little place up there. It’s a lot smaller than their house in Milford was, but it’s nice. It’s right on a lake, and I guess Ralph has been talking about getting a boat. My mom let the cat out on Sunday morning and he disappeared for a couple days, we thought he had just run off, but he ended up coming back. I guess he just wanted to run around for a bit after being stuck in my apartment for over a month.

Spent most of the time since then getting ready for a SimPro demo coming up this Tuesday. We’re working on rewriting pretty much the entire system, and Mark wants it at least somewhat functional for this demo. I think we’ll make it, but it’s going to be close. My code is about 90% there for collecting data, but I still need to modify the notification stuff so people get calls when something breaks. At the moment I’m working on installing Linux on the new remote system. So sick of working on this stuff already.

Luckily, I’ll get a break from it next week. I’m leaving Thursday to fly down to Texas for Matt’s wedding. It’ll be nice to get away from NH for a bit and see some of my friends, if only for a couple of days. I still need to get a gift and stuff. Such a slacker, I am.

Also, Dave and I have hit a couple of geocaches to break up the monotony of code writing. We found two, but couldn’t find a third that we tried for yesterday. I did pick up a travel bug, which I’m planning to plant in Texas next weekend before I fly out. It’s fun to get out and wander around the woods trying to find stuff. Reminds me of back when I lived on Summer St. in Milford and would wander on the trails by the water tower. I think I should make a point of going to one each weekend, though it’s going to be tricky once it starts snowing.

Well, enough rambling. I should clean this place up a bit while I wait for junk to compile on the SimPro box.