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The doctors said that after my surgery, I would likely start to feel better within a few weeks. Now that the primary pain of the surgery is waning (yay, no more vicodin!) I’ve got to admit that I already feel like the surgery has successfully resolved at least some of the issues I’d been having. I can honestly say that I feel really good for the first time in months, especially first thing in the morning when I wake up. I know it will be a few more weeks before I will really start noticing any major improvement but so far, things are looking good.

My surgery on Wednesday went fine. No problems whatsoever. The one interesting bit is that they gave me vicodin for the pain. It’s been quite a while since I’ve had vicodin and I while it’s never had that strong of an effect on me, the most pronounced side effect has been extremely vivid dreams. So vivid that after waking I’ve had to actively convince myself that I actually was awake and that the dream was in fact a dream. The level of detail and clarity in each of the dreams has been absolutely amazing. I don’t plan on staying on the vicodin for much longer as the pain in my stomache is starting to become manageable without it but it’s definitely made for a few interesting nights :-)

I am having minor outpatient surgery on Wednesday August 6th. Will be out of work for about a week and out of my martial arts training for two weeks. Nothing serious, but it will hopefully resolve the various issues I’ve been dealing with for the past few months.

Jim Jagielski: “Make no mistake, of course. There are some positions where telecommuting (my favorite alternative) does not make sense. But if you are in front of a computer terminal for most of the day, either as programmer, developer, designer, administrator, accountant, etc… then there is really no valid reason why you cannot do a lot of your work from home. Heck, people bring work home all the time, to “catch up.””

I’ve been working from home full time since March 2001. So long that none of my three kids have ever known me to work anywhere but from home. They actually don’t believe me that some mom and dads actually have to drive to work. My wife Jen is currently a stay at home mom. We have a van that only averages 15 miles a gallon but we only have to fill it up once a month. In the three years we’ve had it, we’ve only put about 20,000 miles on it. Not only do I telecommute, but my boss and department are back in Boston while I’m still out here in the Central San Joaquin Valley in California where I’ve got five generations of family living within a 30 mile radius. Right now, I just couldn’t imagine actually having to commute to an office just to sit around and type at the computer all day.

ApacheCon 2008: “This session will discuss best practices for the implementation of Atom-based services. Topics will include best practices for Atom format and protocol extensions, mapping application specific data to core Atom elements, use of atom:category and atom:link elements, and overall design of Atom-based services.“