Plans for the Future

I think that my plans are a little more firm now than they were two days ago. At least one thing is now certain: I'm going back to school. In the short term this means NOVA. I already have a number of credits with them so I think I might be able to get my associates over the summer. After that George Mason seems like a good bet.

What should I do while taking classes? I'm not positive. I have enough money to live at least through the summer without working, but if I can find a way to supplement my income I think it will be for the best. Finding another job as a software developer would be good, but I'd probably not have enough time to study if it was full time. My folks have a whole list of ideas from substitute teacher to administrator that they thing that I could get and would be good at. If they're sufficiently part-time, they could be good work. Personally, I'd like to pass myself off as a independent developer, and if I'm not planning on trying to live off the money I make, this might work. I'd also like to work more on my startup project, but that might have to take a backseat projects with more immediate promise. We'll see.

It seems that I have graduated.

And so it does. This Saturday I received my diploma. No honors, but I did get a 'politics certificate,' which basically means I fooled Dr. Way into thinking that an office job had something to do with politics. (It did actually, I turned it into a thesis, but thats another story.)

I had some fun mulling about afterwards saying goodbye to folks, and then when home. I think I spent about an hour pouring over my regrets, and then got over it. Which is a bit better than what happened when I gradated high-school. So College clearly wasn't a total waste. Maybe I got more out of it than just a little more stoicism, but I'll see it when I get to it.

Feeling a bit ill, and realizing why I don't usually drink, beer, I went to bed a bit early, and slept for a full twelve hours. Since then I've been busy about moving. It seems that life just keeps moving ahead. I think I've finally given up trying to slow it down.

Back at School again.

I'm back at school, and already fully involved in my classes. I don't have much time to write for now, but rest assured, I'm going to keep busy.

Home again, Home again jiggidy jog

Back from school. My best semester yet with respect to grades, at lease one A and two A- course grades so far. I don't know about the other three, but I don't think I did worse than a B in any of them.

In other news, I'm already back at work again doing the exact same thing I did last year. Except this summer, I get credits. 6 of them and a near guaranteed A. I feel good. It's been fun so far and I've been productive. We might migrate our entire build structure from Ant to Maven in the near future. If you don't know what that means, don't worry about it. It's a little technical.

I'll be building myself a new computer over the summer. It's be an AMD Am2 socket with an NVidia nForce SLI chipset. A 2.1 GHz AMD64 X2 will be the processor and and graphics card is a GeForce 8600GT with 256mg of memory. It should be pretty nice with lots of room to improve and wasn't all that expensive. The entire system was under $800, which is only two weeks of work for me and it should remain current with only minor upgrades years to come.

I'm going to try to resume conversation with Mr. Powell soon, I've been posting pieces of our conversation at a slow pace, but the last actual email I sent him was over two months ago. I had to stop because of school, but now I should have some more free time.

Also, a note to anyone who reads this, It's been a long while since I've received a comment. I know my friends read this, I've seen you. I'd still write even if nobody read or commented but it's nice to know that somebodies listening. Even more, I like reviews on my ideas and opinions. If you agree, say so; if I'm an idiot, inform me so I can mend my ways. Even if you have no opinion, some partial thoughts would help.

And finally, I want one of these. An eight core processor with 32 simultaneous threads seems to be about the coolest thing ever. The hardware JVM seems kind of fun as well, even if it's only really good for servlets.