My actions were characteristic of me, this post less so.

We neither of us are really sure of how, exactly, the friendship got started, but it did center around music and graduated to code and phone calls. That was years ago, and my clearest memory of them was walking outside on a lazy summer night, sitting outside in the driveway, bare feet on concrete, eyes to sky, and watching the stars circle as we talked.

Here we are. The clock on my computer says we have exactly a week to go, and the scary thing is, I think we're more ready than we've been in years past. Jeff brought the Ops server up last night, and I started testing it to make sure the basic functions were ready to go.

I've found a few oddities, and it's not fully functional yet, but I've got a list of fixes and tweaks, and everything looks manageable.

I have to brag a little. I was quiet, so Jeff could make the announcement over on his site first, but Jeff is now a part of the Huntsville Master Chorale.

Hard to believe it's that time of year already. I've had my head in other things for almost a year now, and it shows. From reading the boards, I'm one of the last people to get into "con mode." Everyone else on tech seems to be frothing at the bit to get back to work, and me, I'm a bit hesitant.

So here I am, testing again. I wasn't happy with the last attempt I made at turning an entry private, so I'm going to try this new version out. This latest version is a password-protection on a node-by-node basis. Problem is, I can't test it without posting, and that's going to spray tests around everywhere.

Specifically, I need to know how the node looks if you don't have the password, and I want to know how it acts in an RSS feed.

So let's see what happens....

*posts*

I'm unwilling to explain more at this time, but:

Just because something's right doesn't make it easy.

That's all.