So I realize I’ve been absent from blogging on here for a while (nearly four months). It’s been a fairly busy few months, both personally and professionally. Allow me to bring you up to speed on what’s been happening lately.

SPARTA

Since I last blogged towards the end of April, some things have changed in our project. The last I mentioned, we had decided to use Cappuccino for our latest web app project. Well, unfortunately, we decided against Cappuccino upon further review. It was determined that we needed a little more flexibility than Cappuccino can provide us at the time. We haven’t removed Cappuccino from any future consideration, we just decided to go with a more “traditional” implementation for this particular web app.

That said, SPARTA work has been somewhat quiet lately. We’ve just been making continual progress on each of our projects. Now that the sale of the company to Cobham has been completed, things have quieted down considerably.

creanium.net

The last few months have seen creanium.net mature quite a bit. As you saw at the beginning of April, I got business cards made up. I’ve handed out quite a few since I got them, so I’m glad I ordered them.

I’ve registered the company with the IRS and County of San Diego, so I’m legally allowed to do business as “creanium.net Web Design”. I even opened a business checking account, I’m moving up in the world!

I’ve picked up quite a few new projects in the past few months. I’ll do separate posts in a bit about each of the projects I have done.

Personally

It’s been a pretty busy number of months personally. At the end of April, Jess and I drove up to northern California to celebrate Reagan’s first birthday!

Brian’s Bachelor Party and Wedding

At the beginning of June, a bunch of us guys went on a 4-day, 3-night Bachelor Party cruise in honor of my old roommate and best friend, Brian. We sailed on the Carnival Elation from San Diego. We were supposed to dock in Ensanada, but because of Swine Flu concerns, we went to Catalina Island instead. To sum it up, we had a blast! I’m still working on getting the photos posted.

Brian got married at the end of June and I had the honor and pleasure of being his Best Man. It was a beautiful and fun beach wedding in Dana Point. Photos have been posted so feel free to take a look!

This was the first of five weddings we have been invited to this year, so the fun was just beginning.

Minnesota

July gave us no reprieve from the busyness. We spent the 4th of July up in Riverside with Jess’s family and then watched the fireworks at Mt. Rubidoux.

In mid–July the whole family (Jess included) headed to Minnesota for my cousin Danika’s wedding (2nd of 5). As expected, we all had a great time out there and it didn’t last nearly as long as it should have. I could have used another 2 or 3 days out there. The wedding was a ton of fun and it was great being up in Minnesota again. Oh, and Jess’s highlight of the entire trip? The hour we spent at the Mall of America right before our flight home.

August

That brings us to August, which I cannot believe is just about half over already. This is probably our busiest month by far. It started off on the 1st with us celebrating Keira’s 3rd birthday with the annual party at my parent’s house. As always, it was a ton of fun with all the kids.

The following weekend was booked. Gaile’s (my sister-in-law) parents celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary with a party down at Michael and Gaile’s. But because we already had plans to attend a wedding that night (our 3rd of 5), we could only stay at the party for about 2 hours before heading downtown to Jess’s friend Stephanie’s wedding.

That wedding was a ton of fun, well probably too much fun for my own good if you catch my drift.

My mom celebrated her 60th birthday this past Tuesday. We hosted the immediate family (well minus Mary) for a great birthday dinner in my mom’s honor. And we’re headed to my parents’ tomorrow for more celebrating.

Weight Loss

Around the middle of June, I realized that I had had enough and the excuses weren’t working anymore and I needed to start losing weight again. So I started eating better and using My Food Diary again, and then began riding my bike again and hitting the gym. So far I’ve been able to stay on top of it for the most part and I’ve lost nearly 20 pounds. Given my history, that’s quite an accomplishment in itself.

Now

So now you’re all caught up on my happening in the last few months. I may have left a few things out, not on purpose, just there’s been so much going on that I may have forgotten a few things.

I have a few articles for which I have ideas, I just need to write them out. So look for more articles in the coming days and weeks as I get them knocked out.