Over the last few days at work (when I’ve actually been at work) I’ve been working on leveraging / porting over chunks of the EventBus.org project code to operate over JMS as a lightweight, ad-hoc, Enterprise Service Bus. I as I was dissecting their code, I wasn’t too thrilled with the lack of generics, and [...]

Upon completion of the Kitchen Island, Kylene and I had a discussion (before the labor kicked up) about what to work on next. I’ve been itching to make some saw dust lately — and I wanted something smaller to start with and get out of the way. This week we’ll be re-arranging the furniture in [...]

The first weekend in July, Kylene started feeling some contractions and cramping. It wasn’t a big deal, as they weren’t intense, or common. Mostly just activity related. Over the last two weeks these have increased. To the point that Thursday morning, she was having painful cramps nearly constantly. We called the Doctor, knowing full well [...]

Tonight I finished assembly of nearly everything. I’m considering this project DONE, since all I have left to do is some back-stops for the doors (the latches work already, I just need an adjustable limit — see the photo of Alice toward the end of the gallery below) and to install the knobs on the [...]