Running is therapy

Hallo.

I haven’t said much as of late…but it’s because I have been busy…busy as a bee!

I am into so many things now it’s just sick, so many things in fact I don’t even have time to talk about them.

I bought a grill and have been hacking away at grilling recipes. While enjoying the fruits of this labor.

I have been chugging along with FreeBSD as my home server/Asterisk box and that’s been loads of fun.

I bought the book The Book of PF. What a great read. You can get most of the actual text here, but for text this long, I much prefer the book format.

In my career I have always managed to avoid networking, in favor of 10 million other things. What a mistake. PF is super interesting, as is networking in general.

I have made a bit of a truce with Java and have been hacking around a bit on that. I am sold on Ivy for dependency resolution. The power of code reuse via jars is awesome, maintaining the classpath is not…Ivy fixes that.

I still loathe xml.

Big changes on the personal front, as I am planning to start moving my cats to my girlfriends house. She already has 2 cats, so with my 3 along for the ride, we’ll have 5 cats under her roof. That should be interesting.

I am running about 20 miles a week. I continue to have heel pain, but I run anyway. The pain isn’t bad enough to change my gait, so I just run anyway. I might go to PT…we’ll see.

Ok, that’s enough for now.