W00t w00t!

So many things have happened since my June post. July didn’t see a single day that my schedule was open and I was relaxing.

I spent most of my summer training in my 2 martial arts, my SkyWarn spotting was slim to none (calm summer, not a lot of severe weather), and then the first week of August I finally took a trip out of town.

It was nice to get away from school, and to focus time on family, and other diversions.

That will all end of course at the end of the month when school starts.

I am hoping this means more time writing my thoughts as I progress through another semester of college. 3 more of them to go before I am done, and I can start looking for work.

I miss work!

I have been so overwhelmed these last few weeks that I had to begin writing on the calendar, all of the appointments for each day that I needed to make.

According to my calendar, April will be very busy.

One shining bright spot is that last night, at my SkyWarn meeting, there was a need to create a document that would track storm reports. Not only did I take charge of creating that document, I decided that the first step would be to see if I could duplicate it in an application.

Which you can.

So I wrote a PHP app form that would take the data in, spit it out to a text file, tab deliminate it, and then reset the form so you can continue to take more reports.

I will of course create a new storm reporting document, but I want to test this electronic version in a live scenerio.

(College is paying off, YAY!)

I don’t know about you but for some reason I’ve had to try and get as many events as possible into such a tiny weekend.

It seems that on Friday, (which is normally a day off for me), I had massive cleaning in the house preparing for guests to arrive Saturday. Then, tryin to tweak one of my computers to dual boot (XP and Presto) I ran short on time because I this is the day I grab my daughter early from daycare.

Saturday, with guests, they helped my wife and I pack up a ton of boxes and items which needed to go to storage, then a BBQ at one of the relatives for the rest of the night.

What did I do today you ask?

Today I finished up the XML, PHP, and Java programs that needed to be turned in this week. Then I had to get my amateur radio equipment set up so that I could get onto the first SkyWarn net of the season, as well as check into the Superlink net.

So now I am packing all of my books and gear in anticipation of school tomorrow, and another schedule filled week.

In my brief leisure I also managed to get 30 dvds ripped of Arnis de Mano testing, and a 3 hour videocasting of TWiT live (which happened to be a fun show about social networking).