Today is the day!  My surviving son, Spiff (no, that’s not his real name), moves out.  He will be here in about 4.25 hours.  I can’t tell you how excited I am about his arrival.  My listing of the hours before he arrives may be a clue, though.  I have plans for him, and I have high hopes they will work out.  I will be having a quiet chat with him after he arrives about expectations, etc.  Sam will be sleeping when he arrives, so we will need to try to be as quiet as possible.  In short, there are things I want him to accomplish:

 

1.  Get a GED

2.  Get a job

3.  Get a driver’s license

4.  Get into some sort of higher education

 

The ultimate goal is for him to move out on his own, something he is simply not ready to do.  I will tell him I believe he should have, for at least six months, had the same job, had his driver’s license and been in school–essentially all of the above except the GED–before he moves out.  Along the way he should be paying some bills, seeing the doctor as needed, etc.

 

Okay, new topic.  I am excited about Spiff moving out, but there are other things going on in my life.  For example, there’s the checkers applet I have been working on for a co-worker.  I have mentioned it before, although I can’t remember exactly when.  I have made significant progress, particularly in the past week.  One can now create a login and then use that login.  There is a box which shows who’s online, and it does that (although it needs refinement).  Most excitingly–and most recently–I have created the ability to create a “table” to play the game.  The game is not yet playable and there are some issues with the creation process and, of course, much to otherwise be refined, but the table creation thing is there.  With some effort, the game will be playable this weekend.

 

Meanwhile, in EverQuest, my focus has been on Danielf.  He has become a regular enough raider that I need to improve his gear.  So I have been doing quests and things to do that.  Also, he needs to reach the next tier of the expansion before the current one, so I have been working on that, too.  I don’t think I am going to get much done today–too much excitement over Spiff’s arrival to focus on much–but I hope to get done with the improvements and reach the aforementioned next tier in the next couple of weeks or so.

 

That’s all I have for this week.  Tomorrow’s poem will probably be inspired by Spiff’s arrival.  See you then.