Nearing D-Day, and still no baby.

I was intending to write at least a little something last night when I got home (which was late due to church and choir), but by the time I finally sat down, I was just plain beat. No verbal inspiration in me…which is an Odd Thing. So I skipped it for the evening and rather did some other mindless things (well, I also read the paper…that doesn’t really count as mindless).

But, after I got to thinking about it (this relates to my recent comment about StumbleUpon), I decided to give it a shot. I’d seen StumbleUpon before (mostly as a referrer to my Monty Python Repository), but never really used it. So I installed the Firefox plugin, signed up for an account, and started off. I have to say that it’s been an interesting and fairly pleasant experience thus far. I really only find value in things like that when I’m completely bored and looking for some time killing material, but it’s come in handy (and I’ve found a few neat things because of it).

I’m not really into it for the social networking aspect; I could care less about that. It’s just neat to find random things.

Anyway, today’s work day was pretty productive (as was yesterday, in an odd way). I finally got around to dedicating time to a project/feature I intended to start working on last week. The benefit therein is that I’ve managed to get many loose ends tied up (which will be a Good Thing when it comes time for me to not be around every day for a while). Another benefit is that this functionality is actually going pretty well (not taking as long as I’d expected), so I’ve been able to make progress when I’m not on the phone, writing emails, or handling other problems or issues (questions) that come up during the regular day.

In a perfect world (and it’s looking better all the time), I’ll be able to continue development work from home as time allows and still remain on schedule with various projects and deadlines. Given how the world currently sits and where things are at, I’m guessing this will be possible. That makes for a Happy Matt, because it means less confusion and stress for everyone involved.

Things are starting to warm up here now; most of the daylight hours today (at least after 10am or so) were above 32 degrees, so some snow is starting to melt. It’s supposed to stay like that (even getting into the 40’s and possibly even 50) for the next several days, if not weeks. So, the snow that we waited so long for will be gone soon. Probably not for a week yet, but it’ll be going away.

Anyway, I believe I’m going to go catch something for myself to eat, then probably take Beth out for a ‘bumpy ride’ in hopes we can gently jolt that baby into an early or active labor situation. 🙂 We’ll see how it goes. Hardest part is to find a suitably bumpy stretch of road…

Until next time…

–MZ