I’m either going to delete or move acedanger.com. Any and all content from any social site under the username acedanger will be moved or deleted as well. You will not know the new domain, if there even is one.

It’s too bad that this is happening. There is too much drama about this now and it’s just best to stop it now. It’s a shame, I’d rather not remove the information contained in this blog just because of a select number of people (that can be counted with one hand). I really like the name acedanger. I suppose this is for the best. I will sorely miss the name.

This is the final post here.

So does anybody know what today is??  It’s closing day!  So long big, beautiful brick house with no linen closets and a tiny pantry!  You had a big yard and that probably would be fun to have but I won’t miss the 2 1/2 hour lawn maintenance days; I won’t miss dragging sprinklers around the yard till 8pm; I won’t miss living in a neighborhood where nobody is outside unless they are getting into their cars to drive somewhere, not in the neighborhood.

I will miss the large yard (just not taking care of it); I will miss having my master bedroom downstairs; I will miss having a 500+ sq foot bonus room where my computer equipment lived, lonely sitting up there unless I was up there visiting it; I will miss the kitchen that was totally awesome and had double convection ovens.

So there you go, the abbreviated Memphis chapter in our lives is now closed, not to be sorely missed by myself or my wife (Aaron never gives us a straight answer!).

Well, it’s February 26th and we close on our house in 2 days!  It’s not too late for someone (YOU!) to snatch up a beautiful, (nearly) 3,000 sq ft, all brick vacation home in Bartlett, Tennessee!  Check out this site and send in all offers!  Don’t be shy about offering more than we are asking either.

Alright, enough of that.  I’m so excited the house is almost gone. A good friend of mine hooked us up by finishing up some small stuff that the buyers wanted done and the only thing we have to do now is wait for the closing paperwork, sign it and overnight it and then be done with Memphis FOREVER! (evil laugh).  The only thing I will miss about Memphis was the wonderful people I worked with.  In the end, it was the city that drove us back to sunny Florida.

About a month ago, I wrote a post about getting an offer on our house. That offer was crap and the people knew it. We countered their offer and they have yet to get back to us. I’m thinking they just couldn’t afford the house and were hoping that we’d give them a good deal on it.

Well yesterday, my wife got an email from our realtor (who is not a good realtor, stay away!) saying that she may have an offer for us. This morning, we woke up and my wife checked her email for any word. Well we got an offer on the house…a much better offer! We are in the haggling stages right now but I’m thinking that these people are going to be the buyers! Oh, the best part of the offer, should we eventually accept a modified form of it is that they want to close on Feb. 28th! Of this year! I’m looking forward to the counter to our counter.

UPDATE: We accepted an offer on the house.  We have some painting that these lazy people either can’t or don’t want to do but this may just be the end of the Memphis chapter in out lives!

Let me just say start out and say that I have not abandoned the blogging that I grew to like a lot during my significant downtime while I worked at Terminix. I have just been really busy; between work and WoW and house searching and then more work…plus I had a lot of work to do…at work. Lots of work…at work.

After a long search, I have found a place to rent in Winter Park! It’s about 7 miles from work so my commute time should only be about 20 minutes either way. The house we are renting is decent. It is 100% tile…no carpet. That was our largest limiting factor in looking for a place to rent. We were told that Aaron would *probably* be developing asthma in the next year due to his current allergies. It was recommended that we avoid carpet if possible so we did. I signed the lease today. We move in on December 20th. I will be flying to Memphis, for the last time, on December 16th, flying back with Aaron on the 18th and Meri is going to drive down on the 18th and 19th.

In “I STILL have a house to sell” news, couple number 27 came by to look at our lovely home since we put it on the market many moons ago. They are very interested and decided that it was the house for them. They have a house to sell and it is currently on the market but is not showing well because “they have too much stuff and it makes the house look small”. They are currently in the process of trying to get approved for financing for both their mortgage and for the mortgage for our house! That sounds like a lot of work to me. We were told that they stopped looking at houses after they saw ours. If they do not get approved and still want our house, we are going to offer them a lease with an option to buy. That would be awesome to not have to pay a mortgage AND rent!

So anyway, I should probably get back to work. Work is fun, minus being insanely busy all the damn time. I’m doing a lot of AJAX integration (but not with XML, we use JSON because it’s faster) with LANSA. If you have no clue what that all meant, here’s a simpler way of saying it: I’m doing wicked cool stuff on the web! My JavaScript skills have increase dramatically in the past 3 months! I am having a lot of fun doing the actual coding part of my job. Now the operations side I could do without but you have to take the good with the bad.

We have made most of the arrangements and I am very happy to finally be able to say that Meri and Aaron will finally be moving to Orlando on December 18th! Meri is going to drive her truck to Orlando and I will be flying down with Aaron…alone. Although Meri has done this many times, this will be my first time flying with him alone and I’m kind of nervous about it. He’s a great kid and all but I know he can get grumpy when he has to stay in one place for a short period of time, thus causing me to get grumpy. Now all I have to do is fine a house for us!

This weekend, we are headed to St Louis to watch the 49ers kick the crap out of the lowly Rams. It should be fun! Meri, Aaron and I are meeting my father-in-law up there. He’s like a super-fan so I’m kind of hoping, for the sake of the trip and for everyone’s happiness. I’m resigned to the fact that the 49ers suck (but are doing very well lately!) but I don’t think he is happy to admit that the Rams good days are far behind them! It should be fun either way. I’m looking forward to it.

WoW is awesome! I’m not addicted as some people I know are but I enjoy playing. I won’t be playing much once my family is back with me but until then, I’ll be playing me some Wow!

I talked my boss into letting me work from Memphis two weeks at a time, instead of our originally negotiated one week. Two weeks with the family at a time?! Who would have ever thought I wouldn’t be spending all of my time with them?! This has been one of the more difficult times in our lives, especially now that Aaron is fairly aware of what is going on.

Meri took Aaron trick-or-treating tonight and she said that he loved it. Aaron got to knock on every door and say “Happy Hawoween” (he has issues with his L’s). The when the people would put candy in his pumpkin, he would fish it out, tell them what it was, and then say “Thank you for [insert candy name here]“. I really wish I could have been there with them! He asked Meri if tomorrow was Happy Halloween again and then asked if there was going to be any more trick-or-treating again tomorrow. This is the first year that he’s been into it like this. Next year will be fun too! I’ll just look forward to that.

In other Wood family news, a woman came to look at our house for the second time in 3 days! I’m going to take that as a sign that she liked it a lot the first time. Our realtor seems to be stepping up lately and really getting the ball rolling. As much as we disliked her style initially, she does seem to have a fire under her ass now, for which we are thankful.

Now, back to WoW! I’m Nakhand on the Ner’zhul server in case anybody is interested…

November 8th will be our third wedding anniversary! Three years! Who would have ever thought that that I could get a woman, a real live woman, who possesses both the ability to hear AND see, to stay with me for three whole years! And that is just the length of time that we’ve been married. I think we dated for 4 years (on and off) before we got married.

You know what’s great about the third anniversary? There are two types of gifts that correspond with the third wedding anniversary: the traditional and the modern. If you don’t want to click those links, here’s the Cliff’s Notes version of them: the traditional third wedding anniversary gift is leather, and the modern is crystal. Now being the technology minded kind of person that I am, I would generally go with anything labeled “modern”.

Not this time! What says “Baby, I’ve missed you so much since we’ve been away from each” other more than leather?! My isn’t getting a wallet or belt, she’s getting something we can all enjoy…well, something I can enjoy…

Hm, that’s probably a little too much information for all of you. I hope neither of our parents reads this. In fact, if you know me, just pretend I didn’t write any of this and also that you didn’t actually read it.

Now since it is officially Saturday, I can very, very happily say that I get to see my gorgeous wife in one week! Just seven more days and I get to see my wife and son. They must both be really excited! Haha. I’m really excited. I will be able to see and touch my wife and be able to pick up and toss around my son. I am so ready to go back home and see them! I hope my house sells soon…this whole being apart from my family is the absolute worst part of my otherwise cool new job.

So this is my first weekend in Orlando and what am I doing? Am I out drinking and partying and acting like a bachelor? Nope! I’m here at 9:30 pm on a Friday night writing a blog post on my new work laptop while I take a breather setting it all up and installing my much used software. Whew, long sentence…

I had intentions of coming home and seeing if Tania and her boyfriend wanted to go get wings at Ker’s Wing House, my treat but Tania went out and I sat around. I ate some chips because I was insanely hungry and was going to talk to Meri and Aaron and then head out for a few beers and some wings. Well the chips did a number on my stomach and now I feel like shit. You know that warm, clammy feeling you get in your stomach when somethings just not right? Well that’s me right now, feeling shitty.

I did mention that I got my new laptop from work. It’s bad ass. It is a Dell Inspiron with dual Centrino 2 GHz processors, 2 GB of RAM and it has a widescreen screen to boot. My current resolution on this laptop is 1680 x 1050. Well I think that’s cool…

Anyway, work is going alright. I’m not sure if I made a mistake or not taking this job but I just have to keep telling myself that the move is better for the family and I will be learning a ton of new stuff here and things in the future will be better. Once I can get the database figured out, things will be much better.

Meri just called me for the third time telling me that Aaron isn’t going to bed for her tonight. She has done amazingly well getting him to bed since they’ve been up in MA. Normally, I put Aaron to bed and it has basically been the norm since Aaron decided he didn’t need boobs to go to sleep.

I’m going down to Tampa tomorrow to hang out with my friend Bernard and a bunch of his other friends. I have a sneaky suspicion that I will be the only white person there. This will be the first time I’ve seen Bernard’s condo since he bought it. It will be great to see him again, it’s been well over a year since we’ve hung out.

My first weeked at this job and I have to work over it! As if the 12 hour days weren’t enough, I have to do this too? I asked how much I would be asked to work on a weekend and they told me that it was a rare occassion. I suppose they will tell me that when I have to do it again!

Wow, reading over this post and it appears that I have had a lot to blog about since I’ve only put up one very small blurb since I moved down here a week ago! I guess I should keep doing the blogging thing…if I have time that is.

I’ve been so busy at work that I haven’t had a chance to even look at any PHP or AJAX code. Before this week, I hadn’t written a line of PHP or AJAX code in two weeks prior to me moving down here! I may lose my touch. Too bad huh? I’ll just have to fall back on my Lansa Web development skills. That’s ok, they pay better than PHP/AJAX coding.

Alright, CSI Miami is going to start in about 15 minutes and I have to watch it since I can’t record it since the house I’m staying at doesn’t have a DVR! This woman is living in the stone ages!

The marathon painting session is OVER.  Five rooms in five days!  One room a day makes it sound very misleading and almost simplistic.  We actually have been doing trim for the past two days so that means five rooms in three days!  It was insane.  I’m glad it is over!  Now I can just go back to being busy doing other things such as NOTHING!  What will I do with all of my free time at night while I’m not painting?!  Seriously though, painting sucks; although I am really good at it now.

Hurricane Ernesto is threatening to close down my new office tomorrow.  It’s a good thing I’m making more money and the job is in !Memphis (that’s programmer speak for not Memphis) because otherwise, I wouldn’t move into hurricane alley!

Monday, I worked on an issue that has been sitting in my queue at work for a little while now.  It actually felt good to get some coding done and not just researching other former employees code.  I spent the whole day doing that and I’m just about finished with it.

Last Friday, I did some work on the PeopleArray dev site.  I got the Lightbox Gone Wild JavaScript working for the Add Contact and Edit Contact portions of the site.

The problem I was having with that was that the “window” that opens up wasn’t large enough to cover my entire form.  The problem was that the default code specifies a specific height and width for the background window.  I must have overlooked that because I really thought I was going to have to hack up the code to get it to work like I wanted it to.

Lot’s of updating on minor things.  I’m glad you care enough to read this far.