Today was a typical Monday. Plan on being at one place at 10am, only to end up still at another unplanned place at 1pm. It all worked out fine because the place I originally was headed to in the morning forgot I was coming! Eventually this craziness should end or at least become more managed, just not on a Monday.

In other news, we're back at tearing things up on the house again. The siding was removed a few weekends ago. Just give Mike K a claw hammer and get out of the way. By the time I had the gutters and light fixtures removed, half of the siding was gone. My dad's been down a few nights helping put in the new patio door and adding the 1 inch insulation board to the outside walls. The new windows should be here either the last week in August or the first week of September. (so there's alot of stuff that needs to be done before that).

On a lighter note, I've discovered podcasting. I know, that's so like 2 years ago, but I didn't get into the whole ipod thing. A little over a week ago, I got a new phone (Nokia e61i) which makes downloading and organizing the podcasts super easy. The phone itself is pretty cool too. In some ways it's superior to the iPhone. The iPhone doesn't have a sip client to allow making VoIP calls where this and several other phones from Nokia do support this (over wifi).

BarcampMilwaukee2 is coming up in about 2 months. Check it out www.barcampMilwaukee.com I'm planning on attending for at least part of it.