Been a while since I've updated this blog.  Pretty sad that I have to stay
late after hours here at work to ever get the time to even type in a few lines
into the old blog.  Lately, I've been off fighting a battle with a top level
sell-off station.  I hacked in some quick software fixes so production can
sell-off units, meanwhile I've been helping the hardware guys to track down
where the intermittency may lie at.  Hopefully this next week, we can nail the
problem down and fix it so I don't have to worry that the station will be dead
soon.  That would bring some serious high level manglement wrath down upon my
group.  

I'm still trying to find a way back to doing programming at work again.  My
role currently seems to be drifting more and more to leadership roles.  I
don't mind it when I have good people to work with, but with the recent
departures, I'm stuck with a lot of question marks and dregs.  I don't mind
mentoring the noobs, but having to hand-hold a 60+ year old engineer who has
been around 25 years is driving me nuts.  All I get is complaints on how he
can't do anything without someone showing him how to do something simple. 
Zero initiative and it pisses me off this guy is earning muchos more than me,
and I have to carry his ass.  Life ain't fair.

Fall has been wonderful here in Iowa.  Beautiful colors on the trees, and a
rare warm and dry October.  Dad and I have already gotten the fall corn
harvest completed.  Right now we are wrapping up the last of the fall chisel
plowing of the fields.  After this, farming drops off to me doing more
firewood gathering, if my weekends allow me the time.  Speaking of weekends, I
went to Minneapolis for the weekend to catch a college bud of mine from
Athens, Georgia.  Another friend came from the Western part of Iowa, and we
crashed at our friend's house in Minneapolis.  I got up there Sat. noon,
grabbed some lunch, then we hit a mini-kart indoor race track.  I had never
driven one of those before, and it was a riot!  It took me a few laps to get
comfortable enough to actually begin racing, and if we were allowed, I think
we four would've started pulling some serious NASCAR moves by the end of the
race.  Afterwards, we went back, watch some DVD's, caught some more food, then
went to the Mall of America.  We intended to hit a comedy club, but they were
sold out for the last show.  So instead, we hit the sports bar across the
hall, and had a great evening shooting pool, darts, and foosball.  By the time
we got home after 1am, we decided to veg on chips, caught the ISU football
score on ESPN, and crashed.  We were up by 8:30 to get ready for some
breakfast with another ISU alum.  By noon, we were heading our separate paths
again for our homes.  A great weekend had by one and all.

Shoutout to all the gals who wear t-shirts that say "I love nerds", you make
me smile at least! 8)