Almost Three Years

I started blogging as an experiment. I had been posting on a few blogs and figured it was worth some time to see what it was like managing a blog myself. Both from a technical standpoint and as a diary of sorts. Soon after I got the blog up and running I decided to go back to school and pursue a masters degree while keeping my full time job. Since my last post I have gotten two promotions at work and am three classes and a thesis away from my masters in Evidence Based Design. While I hadn't planned on school taking so long I didn't realize the difficulty involved with both working and taking classes at the same time. Many long hours over many long weeks have been needed to keep everything going and blogs, posting on others or running my own, were not even on my radar.

The good thing about all of this is I have been able to learn more than I could have imagined in three short years. There is something enlightening about daling with both school and work at the same time. The synergies that come from studying the theoretical in class and having the chance to apply that knowledge 12 hours later at work have been invaluable. More on that and the problems I have discovered within academia later. Anyway, this is hopefully the beginning of regular posts again. I have a few weeks before school kicks in and next semester will not be as overwhelming as those in the past. The blog will continue to be a collection of randomness based on interesting things I come across throughout my days at work and school and not a personal diary. I figure the beauty of blogs is that it is possible to take what exists and create your own perspective based on the variety of things collected. I am going to try and have fun and promis nothing to anyone other than myself.