From the "I'm Not Dead" File

I go to work. I write scripts to transfer and validate healthcare claims. On Fridays I can wear jeans.

Today was a little different since I put in an offer on a loft in downtown Dallas. I find it amusing that they call the lofts and surrounding area SoCo, for South of Commerce St. I’ve never seen that phrase used any where else. Maybe I should use my own name for that part of town: Eliteland. Tomorrow I should know if they like it, or have a counter. This wasn’t how I expected my home purchasing to go.

I passed the Zend certification exam so in some vague distant future I might use this to get a new job that cross-pollinates with my personal interests in web development. My current job does nothing to fertilize my wild animal lust for web applications.

I’ve made some progress on my rails app to clone Yahoo/Google groups functionality and integrate that with GNU mailman for my dallasmoviegeek mailing list. The hardest part for me has been learning the Ruby/Rails way to do things.

And most importantly The Asian Film Festival of Dallas runs this week and into next so after that’s over I should get more time with happy, relaxed Julie. She’s been busy getting the AFFD film festival together this year.