I've got good news and bad news...

Here I am, at 3:00 AM, sitting in front of the computer. 30 minutes ago I woke up sweating, for two reasons. First, the air conditioner went out by the time Taylor got home (after Katie and I hit the sack)... so he decided to crank it up and set it on 80 to preserve the cool air inside the house (rather than have the AC bring in warmer air). Secondly, I couldn't stop thinking about work and how a new application we installed in South Louisiana Thursday will perform tomorrow (actually... today). One of our clients will have shift workers coming in today to try to catch up on some work using our program. They're hoping to go through about 40,000 documents and make sure no personal information is showing. They're our first client to receive this software and it's only been a day and a half since I installed it there in their (large) environment...it makes me nervous.

I wrote a windows service that will analyze documents for this sensitive information. So far, it's got around 20,000 to work on and is working concurrently on two machines in an effort to speed the analysis up. I wanted to check that it was still crunching away, analyzing documents... and it is. That's very good news. First, it's great that it's successfully running two instances of the service concurrently with no deadlocks or other issues but also that it's been running for the last 12 hours or so and has run through several thousand images in that time.

Enough of that though... the air is back on (I had to try to start it twice before it actually blew cool air) and I'm satisfied that my service is doing a good job of analyzing images.

Since I've been unable to post here for the last week or so due to time constraints resulting from work, I thought I'd post a summary of the latest news - good and bad.

Good News:

• Spent Wed. and Thurs. in a South Louisiana parish installing the program I've been working on for the last few weeks (maybe months)


• We heard through the grapevine that our house has been bricked.


• There's a little black lab puppy that sneaks in Taylor's back yard under our neighbor's fence every day. It's adorable. The owners have to come get it at the end of the day... They bring their little boy over (looks to be 4 or 5) and he just says "Where's my dog!?"


• Katie started her internship. It looks like she can set her own hours there and work at almost any time. So she'll be able to get her 120 hours of time in this quarter. This quarter and next and in February, she can start looking for a jobby job.


• Tennis lessons are going well... and possibly helping me to lose a little poundage. I'm hovering around 190 lbs. now... after maxing out at about 205 a little over a year ago.


• Living with Taylor has renewed both Katie's and my resolve to get a puppy. Even though Cosmo is a crazy little handful sometimes, it's great to have a puppy around.

Not so great news

• I spent Wed. and Thurs. in Lafayette with my boss... sharing a hotel room... and spent 7 hours in the car with him. He's a nice guy, but I don't really talk all that much... so, I struggled to be outgoing. You run out of things to talk about after all the hours of time spent together...
  


• Katie wasn't happy about me spending the night down there Wed., and I wasn't crazy about it either, but that's work sometimes.


• Taylor's air conditioner is still on the blink.

That's the latest from my world. All that good news, with just a little bad news to keep me from being spoiled. Things are good... hope they are with everyone else too.