i don’t know how good it is, but the article is shipped off to sysadmin magazine for review. =)

i just called Linda in order to get access to the inspection report etc. and it arrived in the mail. now i have quite a bit of leisurely reading (hah) ahead of me.

well, i paid way too much money for some guy who didn’t seem any more qualified than me to ‘inspect’ my condo. i certainly expected him to be much more knowledgable/talented. perhaps my condo is just to small to have many things of interest, but if i did that again i think i’d keep the money for myself and spend 3 or 4 hours (instead of the 30 minutes he spent) looking the place over.

after 5 months of nothing, i finally managed to start my article. i wrote about four paragraphs. i would estimate that i’m about 1/5th of the way done with the rough draft of content. i’m going to have to average over 3 paragraphs a night (plus time to revise). if i actually learn not to procrastinate, this might become a regular thing…

i really learned something about the way i do development. i rush. my last project was over budget and has a lot of poor qualities. it is also a resource hog; in short, it sucks. my current project is going to shape up nicely but still took way too long to do because i started developing too quickly, without taking enough time to think about it. it is interesting because i don’t think i ever worked while watching myself work.

me and Rob finished the first half of our final project tonight even though the lab took about an hour longer then we would have liked. this is a busy week. time for bed.