So I’ve been working my tail off lately. The week starting after Thanksgiving (USA) began a time of hectic work for me. This is actually oddly unexpected because the Christmas holidays are supposed to be our slow season. I don’t think the folks around got the memo about the TPS reports. So I’ve been working on various projects, putting out multiple fires and getting everything into a stable state once more. Odd how two days off will apparently cause things to go straight down the tubes.
On a completely different track, I brought home an Eee pc last night to work on it – being a linux user in a tech company in south GA means I am the ‘Linux Guy’ company wide. Nothing like a little job security, eh? *laughs* So, anyways, I brought this tiny little thing home to work on it since I knew I wouldn’t get much of a chance to at work today, the wife absolutely fell in love with it. She loved the fact that it was so small that she could slip it into her purse and take it out when she needed it instead of having to carry around Yet Another Bag. She also really dug the interface to it. She noted when she faux-typed on the keyboard that she’d likely have to trim her fingernails to be able to use it because the keys have so little depth to them. But I showed her how it worked and how it runs (it uses the Ubuntu operating system and the Sugar user interface) and she was deeply in love with it after only about 5 minutes. I think I’ve made my wife fully and finally into a comfortable linux user. So that’s likely the next thing she’ll be asking for on her wish list of tech toys. Not that her list is all that long – she loves a geek and geeks out when she can, but she’s not full-blown hard-core geekgurlie. That’s okay though, one geek in the family is enough I think.
Other news, well, most of the regular readers of this little page on the web know what’s going on in my life right now that’s hugely momentous. I’m not going to talk about it here, but I do wish that those who pray please send up some words for us that everything goes smoothly and in our favour. Things are coming to a head and we’re working towards fruition of a three (going on four) year project that is likely the hardest thing I’ve ever done and is likely to be one of the hardest emotional things I’ve ever gone through. I thank you guys for the love and support that we’ve received so far on this and only ask that you continue to pray for us.
To everyone else who are now scratching their heads and going ‘WTF??’ I would like to wish everyone a happy holidays. But more than that, I want to tell you Merry Christmas. And yes, there is a difference 
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God Bless, and to all a good night.
S
This ends up being the point where I do most of my rambling. Sometimes it's good, most times it's not. As far as I go, I'm a 30-something husband, father, friend, geek...everything else you want to know about me and everything else you don't is contained right here in these pages.
~Swift
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