I spent 30 minutes or so sharpening my Ruby skills to write a small script to fix my backup issues. The result, while not very elegant thanks to my rusty skills, reminded me of how much I really enjoy writing in Ruby. Enough to brush the dust off my propeller hat and give the latest version of Ruby on Rails a try in the near future.
Work wise, I had the usual stack of emails, one conference call, and queue of frantic IMs to deal with. Additionally, I was finishing my preparations to start a new facet of my job. Basically, I will now be doing what I've been doing for Syracuse for Dallas as well. To start it off properly, for the next few weeks I'll be meeting at their work locations, working with them face-to-face and providing direct support. It should be interesting but it also means I'll more than likely be working longer days and be quite tired at the end of them. Those of you inclined to do so, please call my wife and offer to keep her company some day this week or next. I'm sure she'd be happy to have it.
We visited the hospital yesterday and took a tour of the facilities. Now that we know we're staying here, we wanted to make sure this is where we want to have our baby. I wasn't nearly as happy with it as I was with the hospital in Syracuse but, based on what I've seen and heard, this is as good as it gets unless you're willing to leave the safety of an actual hospital and go to a birthing center, which Jess just isn't willing to do for her first child. In Syracuse, several of the hospitals had a birthing centers inside them so that is more serious medical attention were needed, you were only a hallway away.
On the way home we performed our, seemingly, daily ritual of stopping at the hardware store, got some dinner, worked around the house a bit, watched some TV and then headed to bed.
All in all, a decent day made a million times better by spending it with the one person I love more than anything else in this world.
