…himerus

Well, It’s been a rough couple of weeks to say the least.

I’m back in the heartland for the time being & had to bury my grandfather this week who was always like a father to me. Now it’s down to packing up belongings, and securing the house he lived in for the past 20+ years with my grandmother who is in the severe stages of Alzheimer’s.

Kinda hard being here without him around sitting at the bar smoking his cigarettes barking orders.

I hope to be back home in the next week at some point, and back on track. My first order of business is finishing up some final details regarding the ecommerce features for poodlebreedersource.com and getting it lined out for an immediate launch. It needs some upgraded jQuery features in the backend, and to have some final layout/presentation issues resolved, and it’ll be ready for launch.

After that, it’ll be the new corporate site for himerusinc.com. I was having some DNS issues with the site this morning. I don’t know how long those have been going on, but all the other sites on server have been working just fine. And I think it’s fixed now, but my stupid Sprint card is caching the site, and so I can’t see for sure that it’s working yet or now…. (fingers crossed)

Anyway, I hope to be back, and active in the next week or so once I have all the family stuff taken care of down here… see ya’ soon!!!

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After lots of careful consideration, I’ve recently left the security of the last full-time position I was in, and have decided to move back into the unknown for a while, and take life as it comes. The daily stresses of the 9-5 were eating me alive, and I felt it was time again to return to taking contract work, and expanding the web company. There’s always the chance that another full-time position comes up that may be attractive enough to pull me from the work at home / telecommute lifestyle, but for now, it’s going to be an adventure!!

I think that with this move, I’ll be able to really jump back into my blogging, a few personal projects, and continue to move forward in a good direction with my skills. Learning jQuery over the past couple of months has really expanded my capabilities as a UI Developer as well as the extensive experience I have with PHP/MySQL application architecture. Combining these elements along with a now almost anal CSS/Semantic XHTML layout structures, I’ve reached a point where I feel that I can literally “do anything”.

I’m hoping for the best, and we’ll see where the contract labor takes me, and what offers arise in the next weeks/months, and take it from there. Until then, it’s nose to the grindstone for me, and finishing up some work for the previous employer on a contract basis, and continued research & development into my own personal projects.

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Things were very lazy this weekend. Well, lazy as far as being productive in front of the PC that is. I spent half a day chopping some wood for the fireplace this winter, and that’s left me all aching and sore, and went to see the Rockies play the Giants on Labor Day, and besides that sat around and caught up on some movies I’d missed out on at the theater, and had even sneaked past me on DVD.

Goal for this week: be more productive. LOL

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