Aug 12

More blogging excuses, and back to a regular schedule

Personal

I just wanted to apologize to my hundred or so readers that I haven’t posted anything lately. I’ve got about six entries written on various PM/BA topics, then I’m going to start posting regular notes on Microsoft SQL Server.

I haven’t touched SQL Server in a couple of years since 90% of my database work is mySQL at the Tennessean. However, most of the career paths open to me appear to use SQL Server at some level, so I’m going to begin dedicating myself to relearning and brushing up on the SQL Server specifics through pursuit of some industry certifications and take some great blog-worthy notes while at I’m it.

Now for the excuses…
I’ve a had a crazy couple of weeks that have made it nearly impossible to post.  The first reason is working some crazy long weeks at the work…I was racking up between 20 and 30 hours overtime a week for a while.  The second reason is that my home computer (a laptop), broke and required some creative <a href=”http://www.epemag.wimborne.co.uk/solderfaq.htm”>soldering</a> to fix.  Lastly,  and most importantly (and sadly), my Papaw died suddenly and unexpectedly.

Papaw was very close to me, and its probably his fault I got interested in the technical stuff. He  was very smart, self-educated, highly technical, and hardworking man.  He was also very soft spoken,but strong-willed and moral.  I hope live up to his memory and legacy.

In a nutshell I had a death in the family, a broken computer, and crazy overtime and all of these  ended up in me putting blogging on the back burner.  Things are starting to settle down, so I should be back to blogging a couple times a week now.

Thanks for reading.