So much as work has tried to kill me lately, I'm still ticking over. I've spent every other week since mid-December in Phoenix, worked a couple of weekends, a couple of 70+ hour weeks, and one marathon company strategy meeting. I need a cigarette, or at least a week off. Neither will be forthcoming, of course.

On the plus side, January marked the first deployment of our next-gen software, the software that's spent the last year gestating in my head and which I've spent the last 4 months actually building. Not to come off as totally arrogant, but the software is probably the best I've worked on, and certainly the best I've written. As much pain as the last year has cost me, I feel like I've learned an incredible amount, and really started to get good at this software architect stuff. Along those lines, I am now officially 60% finished with my MCSD--and officially certified as a Microsoft Certified Application Developer--having passed the SQL Server test earlier today. Only Web Applications and Solution Architecture stand in my way. Then I'm going to Disneyworld. Or something.

I'm really digging the new Battlestar Galactica series on Sci-Fi. I was a little leery; they tend towards some cheesy stuff (Chupacabra: Dark Seas springs to mind), but BSG is probably the best non-HBO original series I've seen in a very long time. Watching an episode of it does produce this intense desire to go play Homeworld some more, though, which I'm sure Jen considers an unfortunate side-effect. Here's hoping the series doesn't get canceled.