Enjoying a day at the beach this weekend with Amy! We need to take time and do things like this more often!!
It's certainly a little crowded for the long weekend, but it's nice and relaxing all the same!
Getting Introduced to GitHub
I'm just starting to get familiar with GitHub, the version control system for 'git' on the web. So far it's been a great learning experience for me, especially coming from some more enterprise solutions (IBM Rational ClearCase). If you are interested in checking out how git works, but don't want to download anything, you should check out Try Git by Code School. It's a great tutorial of the basic features and it completely sold me on the product.
I have setup my account at http://www.github.com/benhager if you want to check out some things that I am working on. There isn't much there right now, but I hope to be adding to it when I have some time.
Welcome Back.
So it's been a while since I've posted anything here, but I have been messing around with the site some! I have moved the site over to Squarespace from the Yahoo hosting I had been using for years. I was mainly just interested in trying something new, and Squarespace came highly recommended by the hosts over at 5by5 (one of my favorite podcast networks).
I have moved over all the content from the old site, so hopefully everything still works (let me know if it doesn't). There isn't anything new up yet, but I'm tinkering with a few things, so maybe there will be soon.
Update, Update and some more updates...
Well, it's certainly been a while since I've written a post here. Many things have happened since the last post. So we have a lot of catching up to do!
The quick and easy update is my job. Work at HondaJet is going really well, they are keeping us as busy as ever. Just before the end of the year the first conforming aircraft that we are building successfully had it's first flight. You can catch up on the latest by visiting the website at http://hondajet.honda.com/.
Now onto the longer (and much more important updates)...
In February I was in Charlotte, NC at a Purim Party and met Amy. It's been a whirlwind of year! She was a kindergarten teacher in Charlotte and we've had a lot of fun going on weekend get aways to make up for the somewhat long distance relationship (Charlotte is 2 hours from Greensboro). We saw each other every weekend, usually alternating between Charlotte and Greensboro, and we setup a tradition of Tuesday night dinners someplace in the middle.
Anyway, after 8 months I proposed on October 15th on a trip of ours to the Outer Banks. Just to clarify, because my friends have all asked, she did say YES!
At the end of December Amy left her job in Charlotte and moved up to Greensboro to take a 3rd grade teaching job. Right after the move we took off on a week vacation up to Lake Placid, NY to enjoy some snow sports and some quiet time. It's been great having Amy closer and we're looking forward to a wedding next fall.
Well that's all the updates for now. I won't make any promises on another post, I seem to be on and off being good at writing on this thing.
Take care!
Moving down to Greensboro
Well it's been a busy couple days, I am now settled in (well mostly) to the corporate apartment that I'll be staying in until I move to my apartment at the beginning of December. It's a very nice furnished apartment and should be fun for a few weeks. I got a few pictures of the place up on my gallery.On the drive down I was able to stop by Kevin's place in Patuxent River, MD and hang out for a while. It was fun to see the Naval Air Station and some of the other sights around the area (r/c field, aviation museum w/ X-32 and X-35 prototypes, Chesapeake Bay area). It was a really fun drive from there to Greensboro, I don't really know the route I took (just following GPS) but it was through some very beautiful countryside in MD, VA and NC.
The weather has not been great here the past couple of days, it looks like we are getting part of that tropical storm. Mostly rainy and miserable so I've been unpacking and hanging out inside. Other than that, there is just some food shopping to do and if it gets nicer I'd like to explore some more.
Job starts next Monday so I am looking forward to that!!