ROTR

What a wild ride the last three months have been!

Things were beginning to pick up in my professional career, having started a couple of new projects with enthusiasm (and funding!), and having ramped up my energy for supporting an existing project. On top of that, I'd been hired as a long-term contractor at a compensation rate commensurate with my experience for the first time in years.

Then, things kind of went "splat" in an aspect of my personal life. I will not detail it here, but I was not prepared to handle what happened and keep the above flowing smoothly. Projects stalled, this blog went pretty dark, my enthusiasm and concentration waned, and I found myself sending a resignation letter to my newest employer. (Thankfully though, that at least was quickly upgraded to "indefinite personal leave" after speaking with them.)

I want to start writing again, for a multitude of reasons, but it's time for me to set the ROTR journal down for a while. I will likely start other blogs for specific reasons -- if I do, I'll probably post about them here -- and I may one day start posting on ROTR again. For now though, it's time for me to set it down. :)

Too bad I didn't know about FreeMind while I was at PyCon 2007. William McVey certainly used it extensively. :)

I was productive with some Schevo projects and letting stuff generally soak into my brain while I was there, so I'm not disappointed in the slightest.

Now that I'm using version 0.8 of FreeMind to get some ideas out for a network monitoring project that I'm involved with, I must say that in the last half hour that I've been using it, I'm very impressed with its flow, both with the keyboard and the mouse.

I'm looking forward to using it for more and more brainstorming sessions. :)

It occurred to me that if I'd like to record my thoughts more often, and if I'd like to practice my writing a bit more, that I should probably start actually writing more often...

...no matter how short the piece becomes. :)