Metephors are like similies...

Here we are at another day at work. Work is going pretty well. I'm doing lots of fun "prototyping" development, which means lots of playing around and learning new stuff. I'm going to be writing a Windows service that monitors an MSMQ queue (I guess that's as redundant as "HIV virus") and does stuff with messages pulled off the queue. Fun.

Diana and I sing a lot. Not a lot of people know this about our relationship, but we sing silly songs to (and about) each other almost as much as having normal conversations. I finally found an appropriate two-syllable word to refer to my lovely wife which fits into songs very well. D'ster. As in "Go D'ster, it's your birthday" and so forth. And during these songs, I have to wonder: are we completely crazy, or are other couples like this? Either way, I wouldn't change a thing.

I started playing Ultima VII. This is probably one of the top role playing games of all time, and I've never played it. There is a program called Exult (search for it and you'll find it) that allows Ultima VII play under Windows XP, which is nice, since the original used some whack DOS memory stuff. So, go me. I remember playing this game a little bit on my friend Mattie's computer at college. We named the character "Bob", and got a good laugh at a high and mighty Avatar with a name like Bob. "But Bob! Thou art the Avatar!" they'd cry, when we stole something. Good times.

Well, off to home.