travis' brain dump

slack off and write a blog…

why not? i need to pull my focus away from this billing portal i’m writing.

honestly, it’s frustrating. i don’t really like programming or scripting things, however, what does one do when there is no one else that can do it the way you envision it and knows off the top of their head how to handle such a task? the wonderful part about this? we found out within the last week or so that this had to be completed for a test run of the system, slated for sometime in the next week or so. yay for me.

despite the frustration however, i’m nearly 70% done. i just need to integrate the payment gateway into the process so that we get paid. sadly, it appears that could be the most complicated portion of this entire process. what a pain. it’s okay, i’ll ponder on this and probably do most of it from remote over the next couple of days. it’s usually what i do to catch up or meet a deadline. pretty busy week still. tomorrow and a good chunk of friday i’ll be out of the office, so it’s nice to know i’m almost done with this and can more than likely head into the weekend with nothing hanging over until monday. of course, with my luck, something will be screwed up with the gateway and cause me to roll into monday with it. *taps foot*

in other news, nothing really going on lately… same ole stuff… bummed for poor sharon… she won’t be boarding anymore this season with us. she met with a pretty harsh end to the season this weekend when she landed on her shoulder. it was probably the worst dislocation i’ve ever seen. i felt so helpless as there was nothing i could do to fix it… mine was *NOTHING* compared to this one. i’m just glad there happened to be a doctor nearby when it happend and he got it relocated within a minute or so of the accident. he did the coolest trick which i will forever remember. that guy forever has my respect. andy is still has me in rehab (hehe) for my lack of playing FFXI lately, hehe… i lost interest for a while there between work stress and life stress so it’s good to be getting back into the game some.

the house is coming along well… it’s been remodel nation around there and hopefully in the next few weeks it’ll be wrapping up around those projects currently open… i’ll post pictures once its all done. 😀

anyway, back to work. maybe i’ll get a chance to write more later. 🙂