I keep saying to myself that I’ll get a new blog post up Real Soon Now … and that seems to never happen. Since I’ve got just as much time available as anyone else, I think my problem is that time just goes by faster here in Pocatello, Idaho! That’s my story and I’m gonna stick to it.

I am really enjoying the contract I’m working on up in Idaho Falls at the Idaho National Laboratory. I get to work with a great group of people. I’m leading a project to replace their current email systems with a cloud-based solution and this is a very hot topic in the Federal Government at the moment. There’s going to be a mass movement of federal agencies away from in-house email systems to systems hosted by at least a dozen providers. It’s kind of fun being involved with this significant change in how messaging systems are being implemented.

However, Idaho Falls is about an hour north of me. That means I’m leaving the house around 6:15 a.m. most work days and get back home about 6:15 p.m. I usually ride the Salt Lake Express shuttle bus since the round trip on the bus is cheaper than the cost of gasoline to drive my car up and back (and, for some Egyptian reason, the cost of gasoline has gone up more that $0.15 per gallon in the past week around here).

Nina gave me a Kindle for Christmas. I added a cover which actually makes the Kindle feel very much like a book. I’ll usually read either going to the office or on the way home (and occasionally both ways). I’ve really come to like this device.

In other news, I was elected to the Board of Directors for the Pocatello Amateur Radio Club. This should be a fun assignment. The term is for one year and expires at the end of December of this year. I made a contact today with the Buddy Holly Special Events Station on the ham radio set. I’m expecting to get in the mail a commemorative card signed by no other than Peggy Sue Gerron … the girl in Buddy Holly’s most popular song (which is at #194 on the Billboards all-time hits chart).

Ta Ta For Now!