Inactivity on the blog

So things have been pretty silent for the last 4 months on the blog. It's not that I've been idle, but I've just had so much going on that writing was one of the last things on my mind. Here's a recap of some of the more notable events.

• July - Last month of school for me and I finally graduated with my Bachelors Degree in Computer Science! I still can't believe I've finally accomplished this. It was a lot of work and overdue by a fair bit.
• August - We had a family reunion in Salt Lake City for my wife's family. I decided to go stop by the University of Utah to see what their graduate program looked like. I found out a number of things I hadn't known before, one of which included a way to get my Master's degree in CS without going further into debt. We talked about it when we got home and made a fairly quick decision to move. So the last part of the month was doing all the things you need to do for moving.
• September - Moving time. We left the Los Angeles area early September and headed up to the Salt Lake City area. To sum it all up, it sucked. Moving is bad enough, but we got the house we had rented for 6 months and found that nothing had been cleaned or maintained. I've seen worse, but it wasn't good by any stretch. Our neighbor thought we had gray carpet, when it was actually brown. We also had to deal with 6-8 feet tall thistle plants in the yard. Such fun.
• October - Work, cleaning (still), preparing for the GRE tests. I took the general GRE in October and signed up for the Computer Science exam in November. I've learned a healthy dislike for these tests. I also started to file paperwork for my consulting business. JW Network Consulting LLC was born. :)
  
• November - Took the Computer Science GRE yesterday. Hopefully I did well enough for school, but we shall see. It was a nasty exam, but I am alive and relieved that I never have to take these silly exams again.

So that's the replay. I still need to finish my application for the Univ. of Utah, but the major hurdles are over. Then I just need to wait to see if I get in. Now I'm starting to focus on the consulting practice more. It's a bit rougher to try to get things going when you don't know hardly anyone in the area. I've been able to do a small bit of work with someone I know up here, but I need to get more going with all the things that are coming up. Once I start school I will have to quit the full time job and will be relying completely on my consulting work. It's a bit scary, but I think that things will be ok. Definitely will be a learning experience.

I plan to start doing more blogging and research related work. Somethings I won't be able to talk about, others I will. What I can will go down here. If nothing else so that I can find it again later when looking something up.