Sunday, October 29, 2006

Adventerous Weekend

It was a very busy weekend. I have several stories to recount all from this weekend.

Friday Dezi and I went to our church's date night. Dezi posted about the program on the Mr. & Mrs. Rollins site. I'd had a rough day, but we had a good time. Service was sub standard unfortunately but the food was good and the company was great.

Saturday Josh and I got a wild hair and headed off to Waco to see the Baylor vs. A&M game. We bought some tickets off a scalper who promised us they were 45-yard line tickets. Paid more than we should have, but figured the seats would be worth it. We got into the stadium and discovered that our seats weren't quite at the 45-yard line. They were past the end zone. Josh and I just looked at each other and said, "Good for him." He'd spotted a couple of suckers and played us well. We found our seats and got ready for the game. When I sat down the gentleman next to me asked what he'd taken us for. He had aparrently sold the tickets in a hurry for a third of what we paid for them. We continued to laugh about it. Honestly, Josh and I were just glad to be there. The game was a great game. Lot's of back and forth the whole game. I was horse this morning from all the yelling we did. We did learn that we were in the coachs' section and one of the ladies near Josh's seat was Coach Fran's wife. In the end the Aggies won and we left very happy.

Today was a fun day. We had "Trunk Or Treat" at the church. The idea is that church members setup decorations and everything and pass out candy from the trunk of their cars. Youth started after all the festivities and we had a giant game of capture the flag. When that was over we all piled on a trailer for a hayride. The kids love it when it's a fast and furious ride with lots of twists and turns. Well this was a little more crazy than normal. One of the girls fell off after a particularly sharp turn. Scared us all to death, but she was fine. A few scrapes on her elbows seemed to be the worst of it.

I actually really let it all go this weekend and feel ready for the week.

11:54 PM Posted by Big Dave | 0 Thoughts

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Life goes on

I know I haven’t posted here in a while… it’s not that I haven’t had anything to say, just didn’t care to say it. It’s been a busy couple of months. I’m still working through my new job and figuring it all out. We have had some turnover and I’ve ended up taking on a little more work. I’ve flown out to Jonesboro, Arkansas a couple of times in the last several weeks. They plan to find a couple of people to work with me. One is in place and I’m training her up, but in the mean time I have a lot more to do.

However I haven’t stopped being a complete dork. This weekend I was determined to figure out how to deploy a Java application to my cell phone. As simple as I thought it would be, it ended up being a hassle. I found a site to walk me through deploying to my Motorola Razr V3, but then spent even more time trying to find the tools I needed because they weren’t available on the Motorola Developer site. In the end I managed to get it deployed over MiniUSB to the phone. I downloaded Netbeans 5.5 RC2 and the mobility pack which had a couple of sample mobile applications. These were my test files to get see if I could make it work. Now that it’s working, Dezi wants me to figure out how to deploy a Soduku game to her phone.

Dezi and I went to see Employee of the Month last night. We thought it was a cute show, but it’s probably a rental. Last weekend was Daniel and Cassidi’s wedding. Dezi and I were around for quite a bit of that and kept thinking about where we were around that time a little over a year ago. I’m glad we’re married, but it was definitely stressful. Cassidi and her Step-father had a father-daughter dance that Dezi and I both particularly enjoyed. The song they danced to was "For Good" from Wicked. I thought it was particularly powerful choice.

3:11 PM Posted by Big Dave | 0 Thoughts