Presidential Election

I have been alive for over 27 years and been able to vote for 9 of them. However, I have yet to get to the polls. I kick myself for not being more active and 'making a difference' but it is just so overwhelming. Every election I say that I am going to make informed decisions and pay attention then I glaze over and find better things to do.

I am again saying that I want to make informed decisions. This means that I must start watching cnn and other debates and what not. I found a site that does some comparisons. http://www.selectsmart.com/president/2008/comparethem.html

I know that this shouldn't be the only site that i use. I will hopefully be able to take this and add to that knowledge. There is always comedy central's "Indecision 2008" :)

Job Shift

It has become apparent today that my job function is shifting heavily towards project management. I spent the entire morning in meetings and listening to people complain and tell me what things are wrong. I know there is no way that I will be able to get to the development of these projects. I will need to update or create requirements documents for most of the tasks before we even begin to touch the code. This is a necessary component and it scares me to death that I am the best suited for this task. I am a coder. I write code in a closet. I don't do well gathering requirements. I guess I will learn quickly enough.

New Year!

I figured I might as well post a new years post! Even though it is so far into the new year already. Kristen and I had a wonderful Christmas. We traveled to Texas for the weekend before Christmas and then flew back here on Christmas Eve. We had a wonderful dinner at the house and went to Christmas Eve service. Then we spent Christmas morning together and then went to a movie and had dinner with the Whiteley's. After that we went bowling with Kristen's friends.

We were able to make it to Topeka to see James and Cayce and others. We had a great time. We spent new years with Dad and Cathy. It was really nice to spend time with them. After that I started fighting a sinus infection and spent the next week and a half suffering. Kristen told me to go to the doctor early that week and I didn't listen. So I spent another week whining to Kristen that I didn't feel good.

I also got a t0n of work done as it was the last week before school started back up. Along that train of thought I had my first class of the semester yesterday. It seemed to be straightforward. It is a database class and I work with databases everyday so it shouldn't be bad.

I hope to not let another month go by before writing.

Scott