My Big Day

Yesterday my contract job said they are happy with me and want to know if I am interested in coming on full-time. It’s a very grown-up, responsible person type job. It’s not very sexy, and it doesn’t have an audience I can play to. I write stuff to transfer and validate healthcare claims. I will never be a rockstar working at this company. After thinking about it, and what I want to do here in Dallas I decided that I would like to go full-time with them.

I also moved further in house acquisition. I’ll meet with my realtor to write up a contract offer, and I’m shoring up money for some mythical closing day.

One thing that hasn’t gone my way is my plan to use plone on a personal project of mine. The shared hosting environment at Dreamhost really isn’t suited to the requirements of plone, and I don’t want to buy new hosting until I see if there is interest. So I’ve decided to try the Ruby on Rails approach. I’m going to find or build a RFC2822 parser, and start building a RoR app that integrates in with the GNU mailman mailing software I use for the dallas movie geek list. I’m planning on throwing up a subversion repository with a trac website for release planning and bug tracking.

These are all things that I didn’t think I’d be able to do, as recently as June, as I endeavored to recover from the personal and financial hole I had dug myself into shortly after coming back to Dallas.