My commute to Baltimore is only 60 minutes at a top speed of 65 miles an hour when I can pull out of the driveway by 5:30 AM. Funny how helpful having a small town/farming childhood can end up helping you in everything in life. My mother(R) and grandmother(I) and step grandfather(P) and grandfather(JJ) all had homes in town, but never stopped finding work that required early mornings. When I and my step grandfather bought a farm just five miles from the city limits it was an extending of the life we had always known due to extra jobs, summer work and P has always worked on farms doing whatever was needed for that season. Now as a techie, I work as he did minus the extreme physical exertion. LOL
I am so lucky to have had these people in my childhood. They left scars (not everything was ideal), but the blessings from my upbringing have I think outweighed the negative events of it. Funny, I never thought I would come to a point in life where I would have rather experienced all that I have then not exist at all. I think for all the blessing my dear wife(JH) has provided me since our meeting, this change in me has come from her most recent and consistent efforts in helping me stay abreast of my son(JD) and daughter(JA)'s growing up. I love being kept abreast of the latest developments as it helps me develop my interaction with them when I and they are available to spend time with each other (M,T,H 6:30pm-8:30pm;S&U 6:30am-8:30pm). Those two are so nifty!

I've heard in recent days State of the State (MD), State of the City (Baltimore, MD), and State of the Union (USA). I'm not sure what I will do with the information provided therein nor have I heard read of the current state of PA, City of York, PA or County of York, PA, but all of these are also of importance to me.
I'll need to assist dw with laundry duties today if I intend to ever see the floor of my basement workshop - my dear son and daughter have been interchanging shifts of illness to the point that the prewashed vomit soiled textiles are stacking up alarmingly beside those soiled by daily usage. I guess adding high on my list a complete home scrub down is needed.
How can one correctly divide ones time to provide financial success to ones family as well as the time and attention ones family needs and deserves? I am doing far better then my predecessors with regards to the amount of time I am able to spend with my family and the amount of financial stability I am able to provide my wife and children, but I still feel it is grossly inadequate.

What a mix of work I have ... on my job conversion of Cold Fusion and MS Access reporting systems to SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 (SSRS), VS 2005 C# Developer training, SQL Server 2005 Online Training, and assistance/recommendations in application/database environments and product implementation and architecture ... at home insulation of the main floor/basement ceiling, wood splitting for fireplace, research into a fireplace blower, insecticide deployment, participation in lives of wife, son and daughter ... at home office work on websites - First Unitarian {conversion to PHP and new host migration}; MaryPat {menu redevelopment and design flaw corrections}; Mt.Zion {content update, deployment and organizational contacts} -; organizational development in/with PLAGAL; FUCB Interweave; PFLAG of York; Mt.Zion OnA; Mt.Zion Evangelism; as well as home office organization; family genealogy and historic archival; and deployment of one windows and two Linux workstations ... I do wish I could manage these tasks more concisely ... did I mention family financial organization/planning, vacation planning, familial contact (email/letters/phone calls)??? LOL