From "What Good Am I?" on Oh Mercy by Bob Dylan:

What good am I if I know and don't do,
If I see and don't say, if I look right through you,
If I turn a deaf ear to the thunderin' sky,
What good am I?
...
What good am I then to others and me
If I've had every chance and yet still fail to see
If my hands tied must I not wonder within
Who tied them and why and where must I have been

I really dig today's Diesel Sweeties. So that's what that articulated neck is for... :)

I've been quiet the last few days. Partly it was company (my inlaws came into town Friday and left yesterday); partly a class I took last week. Partly it's gearing up for my last semester. And partly it's making sure I'm focusing on the right things.

I've spent most of the last month visiting friends and getting my first solo application out to the public. I was getting ready to jump in and add a bunch of new features but I hit some roadblocks. There's a lot of other things I need to do as well--for instance, the Sloan E-52s need some new arrangements and some new members... I will get work done on Manila Envelope when I can. One thing I've found for sure, putting a new API in behind the scenes as a choice is not a transparent thing. There are some serious UI decisions to make.

But at the same time, I have a wife who I'm getting ready to uproot and move across the country for my new job; a father who's been very ill in the hospital (he's getting better); a grandfather who just got out of the hospital himself, now on a new regimen of medicine to help him overcome the effects of an undetected stroke; and a bunch of other family who I just made contact with again. There are certain things that take priority hour to hour.