Okay, so I had a suspicion when I took this job this would happen. I even prophesied saying, back in the day, "If I ever got a job doing what I love to do during the day, I'll probably stop dinking around so much at night." Well, it has happened.
Interaction Developer
I now have a job for Boomer Consulting working as Interaction Developer. While my language of choice is Perl and I have a few modules on CPAN and this job is Java, I am still working to help folks use the web in ways that make their lives easier. This is essentially what I've wanted to do for about 5 or 6 years.
I thought I would miss dinking around with the IT toys that I spent my life on in my last job, but I do not. In fact, when IT has come up here, I have done what was required but haven't really felt excitement about it. I am an analyst, designer, and programmer now. I love this job.
We're Pregnant!
That's such a stupid line. "We're pregnant." I knocked up my wife and she's pregnant. I'm just watching off to the side while her hormones bounce her around like a superball thrown too hard in an enclosed space. Anyway, this makes me quite ecstatic as well. I've been looking forward to having kids since we got married and the adventure has just begun.
What this does mean is that I'm going to have a lot less "free" time at home. That is, my free time will need to be spent a little more focused on upkeep on the yard and house, watching the rugrat, spending time with my wife, and focusing attention on the being a pastor for my family. One of my previous bosses, Terry, once explained how he used to have hobby project once, then he had kids. I don't expect I'll lose the ability to sit and read a novel or dink around with something on the ol' compy at home, but it'll certainly scale back the time available for such persuits.
I'm Tired
I'm a bit tired of dinking around with stuff I never finish. I have learned a lot about myself and my predilection for toying with a problem until it's dead. I'm never satisfied with a solution and always need to dink with it more. I really think I am close to where Contentment would be a nice tool, but I don't think I'll really be able to push a project like it by myself, even if I got it done in the next six months.
The Solution
Thus, I'm revamping or starting up each of the sites I've been planning for the last couple years.
I'm recreating my personal blog site using WordPress so I'll be able to blog, which I've sorely missed for the last few months since I redid this site last.
I'm going to also reuse Contentment.org for a new purpose, which is to create a site specialized towards discussing content management and web development issues. I'm not sure how exactly to go about it yet and am currently considering a Wiki, but more thought will be made before the site is actually built. It will probably either run via MediaWiki or the Joomla CMS. More to come on that.
I'm also starting up the site I've been most looking forward to for sometime: OpenScripture.net. This is going to become a site dedicated to learning about Christ and trying to answer the deeper questions of life and Christianity from a layman's perspective. I'm going to be talking to various friends and others to get it started. I want it to be based around a community of men (at first, but women too), who passionately want to know the God of the Bible and are willing to share there thoughts and discuss with each other in an open forum.
Anyway, that's where this all leads. I welcome comments on this and, if you're a friend, I will probably be asking for your input shortly on one, the other, or both of my new additional sites to see if I can get this done right.
Cheers.
