I am going to post more. This past week has been good, I was a little stressed at work this week. The boss set a meeting on my calendar and didn’t really let me know what it was about except for a vague list. It wasn’t nearly as bad as I had thought, but the morning before I was really anxious, I don’t know why, but I was. Anyway, I have been bitten by the golf bug. I went to the driving range with Clayton this afternoon and we hit a jumbo bucket of balls. It was a good time. I found how to correct for my slice (a ball that curves to the right), but it’s really hard to get it right and the posture is a little uncomfortable. Next time I got out golfing I’ll take the camera. Tonight we are going over to our friends new houses. I will bring the camera, maybe a video or two!

Alright, so I didn’t post the photos, I didn’t even take the camera. Crud! I’m trying to get back on the blogging band wagon, really I am. Today, I have found a new love the open source software. Our MS Exchange server bombed out sometime around noon today and we have been without email for the past 4 hours. Word has come that they are on the horn with Microsoft, but they don’t really know what is wrong. The interesting thing about Open Source versus proprietary is the possibility of getting a temporary solution up and going rather quickly on limited resources. Seeing how most open source is free, an IT department could take an old beige box that has just enough horsepower, some software (Samba, Sendmail, Courier’s imap server, Apache, Squirrelmail, Spamassassin, ClamAV, openLDAP with PostgreSQL database as a backend, Thunderbird) and any flavor of Linux OS and you can have a temporary solution up and running in as much time as it takes to install everything or plug the box in and power it up if you are disaster ready. I’m not trying to speak poorly of our IT department, but the entire School of Business has ground to a halt waiting for their email to come back up. We shall see how long it takes

Tomorrow is the College’s Employee Appreciation Luncheon with the College’s President. I plan on taking photos and posting them tomorrow night. I have another couple of days this coming month that I will take photos of, more Employee Appreciation stuff, except by the School of Business instead of the College-at-large. It’s great to get a free lunch having only worked there for a month.

Yesterday, I went to the driving range with Casey and I had a total blast. We were chatting about picking up golf as a new hobby. I remembered that Esther’s mom had some golf clubs in her garage and we ran over there and snagged them. You have to understand that the most golf that I have played was a back to back 18 of putt putt. Lining up on the driving range was imposing, no windmill, no castles, no grinning clown, in other words very imposing. After hacking away at half a bucket of balls, I was feeling pretty good. I really think that this could become a hobby. Also, I have been working my rear off at work. You can see my fine work at: http://masonweb.wm.edu/marketing/gradetrade.html. I had to capture, re-encode, convert to flash video and create the HTML for the page. Whew! I also found out that some of the people that I work with are high-rollers in the VC and tech communities (specifically Python). So, golfing and knowing high-rollers and the like, all combined, does this mean that I’m becoming… upper crust?