It's been a while since I've posted, but I've been pretty busy on all fronts. Here's a quick update:

  • Took the family to Chicago to see my sister and her husband. We went to the Lincoln Park Zoo–which little Abby enjoyed. It was good to see my sister and catch up with what they're up to. As far as big cities go, Chicago is nice, but I don't think I'd like to live there.
  • Still learning and hacking around with Ruby. I wrote a script to look at some of my Apache logs and do reverse DNS lookups. Turns out there's a bug in Ruby's resolve library using Resolve::DNS.getresources if a DNS lookup fails. A quick bug fix solved my problems, though.
  • Work has been super busy: rolled some warehouse views out to a selected few; responded to state auditor data requests with millions of records (fun!); convinced Apache on CentOS to pay attention to the ORACLE_HOME environment variable for the PHP oci8 module (I'll document this in a later blog entry); further work on my PHP application framework to create a multiple-authentication scheme depending on the resources requested; and on, and on…
  • I led worship again yesterday. It went well.
  • My parents have been to China and back since my last post. This was my mother's first (and possibly her last) trip to China. I went to China with my father several years ago, and it's an eye-opening experience: the world is a lot larger than you'd think.
  • Crystal and I have been doing a little bit of nesting in preparation for the new baby girl coming soon. I shuffled some furniture and Abby's toys around to make some room for the bassinet in the living room. Crystal and Abby got out all of the tiny baby clothes and washed them. Was Abby ever really that small?