Seattle

I really need to switch over to a new system and design. Every time I look at my own site now, I just cringe. I'm pretty sure that I will be moving to word press, and I even have some ideas on the design, but time is what is missing. Here I was thinking that I would be overflowing with free time once I started my internship, but it has yet to materialize. Maybe we are still adjusting, but it has been a month already so you would think we would have settled in by now.

Anyway, Amazon is great. It's all the things I never knew I wanted, but couldn't do without. I'm so glad I ended up in web services, it literally feels like it has changed my life. I've been drinking in all the junk about object oriented programming and the 'correct' way to program for so long from school work, that I didn't even realize that there is a completely different mindset out there. Services, that is where it is at. Try doing some research on SOA. Anyway, that is what I have been doing for the last month.

After a few weeks of research (believe it or not, I have yet to write a single line of code yet), ideas just keep popping into my head. Long lost dreams of programming ideas that I thought were impossible have suddenly resurfaced and actual progress has been made! It's a race just trying to write everything down coherently so I don't forget it.

On a more relaxing note, Seattle is really nice, but our living arrangements often leave something to be desired. We live in a nice enough apartment that is subsidized, but it is right around the corner from a noisy club. Most of the time its not an issue, but the last three weeks Sunday morning has been rough. At 2:00am, which I presume is when the club closes, we have seen 20-40 people in the parking lot just below our window pumpin up there favorite music and just generally being as loud as they can be. The first time I was actually dialing the cops when they suddenly went quite. I guess somebody else got to it before I did, but this is just ridiculous.

Well I think I'll leave it at that for now, I may try and get in some entries on actual material soon, like what I am doing in Ruby right now and my new installation of ubuntu dapper. Pretty cool stuff.