Today is my 8th wedding anniversary, and I feel sooooo sick! Sorry honey. I wish I wasn’t sick….

Best wishes to Duffbert and Mrs. Duffbert on celebrating their 22nd Anniversity together. Hope you have many, many more!

How sweet is this? Bruce Elgort said at his blog that OpenNTF will have a pedestal at Lotusphere 2005. Now I really got to figure out a way to go!!

Rock on, Bruce and Vince!

My co-workers and I are working on installing IBM Lotus Workplace 2.0.1 on classroom machine. It has been a slow process…from downloading all of the files needed to copying them over to the install process itself. Rob Wunderlich of DominoUnplugged fame is also working on this at his superhero ‘undisclosed location’. He’s also having fun with this. More on this soon…

Captain Oblivious mentioned on his blog how Bloglines has the number of Bloglines subscribers you have to your own blog. According to them, I have 14, but one of them is me. To those 13 ‘lucky’ subscribers, welcome and THANK YOU for coming to the Pridelands. If you subscribe to me via some other reader, comment and let me know you’re living.

…NOW GET ON WITH YOUR LIFE!

I can’t believe how many hits and Google searches I’m getting from a wrestling item. Maybe that’s how I can get people to my site…

Happy Anniversary goes out to Greyhawk68 . If you haven’t read his blog, you’re missing something.

English:
My nephew, Jim ‘Rojelio’ Vote, leaves today until mid-December for Spain. Have a safe trip. Have fun. LEARN SOMETHING. You’re not just there for drinks and cigars. Remember that the Pridelands misses you and keeps its pathway open for your safe return. (And bring Kiara back something nice!)

Spanish:
Mi sobrino, Jim ‘ Rojelio ‘ Vote, se va hoy hasta los mediados de diciembre para España. Tenga un viaje seguro. Tenga diversión. APRENDA ALGO. Usted no es justo allí para las bebidas y los cigarros. Recuerde que el Pridelands le falta y mantiene su camino abierto para su vuelta segura. (y traiga a parte posteriora de Kiara algo agradable!)

Keep good thoughts for the Pride, especially me. I’m heading down to downtown Detroit for a hearing on a house I own. About 4 years ago, I lived in a house that caught on fire while Jennifer and I were living there. (Jennifer was pregnant at the time and lost the baby a week later.) It was pretty much smoke damage, along with window/door, electrical, furnace and plumbing damage. It’s probably not a lot in terms of cost, but because of the miscarriage, I spent my energy, time and money on Jennifer instead of repairing the house. We didn’t have house insurance because I don’t even know where to get any. I was really ignorant to that. Fastforward to today, the city thinks that because it’s been unoccupied in over 180 days, it’s eligible for demolition. There is another house on this block that has no one living in it for longer, but I’m the one getting the shaft. The Director of Building Safety promised me it would not be domolished, but I don’t want to depend on someone’s word that has no personal investment in this. I’m going down there to make sure. Please pray for me.

jonvon has an interesting discussion going on at his blog about the future (not ND7, but ND8) of Notes/Domino with some nice thoughts taken from Andrew Pollack’s blog. The firefighting Notes guru has been under the hood on some future stuff, and although he can’t say much, he does like what he sees.

As a Notes/Domino instructor, I’ve been trying to plan out my future. So far, it’s been like, ‘Hang on and go for the ride,’ but now I’m feeling a bit better. I still have a lot of work to do, but at least I don’t feel like I’m going to get lost in the shuffle. I still want to teach, but every day (and every paycheck) keeps me asking if this is going to get any better. jonvon and Andrew have me at least being able to breathe.

How do you feel about your future in Notes/Domino? What do you tell others when they ask what they need to know to continue doing what they’re doing?