Oops...I forgot about this

Well, I kind of let this thing go.

Since my last post, school ended, I started renting a house with a friend for the summer, and I got a new job.

School ended pretty well, and I'm looking forward to tackling my (hopefully) last year of school. There were a few interesting projects and other academic happenings which I suppose I can write about in later posts.

The house I am currently living in is fairly interesting as well. Apparently, it's an Omaha landmark. Who knew? The current owner bought it fairly recently and has been remodeling. Ours is currently the only unit done, but other college-age kids should be moving in at some point. As "guinea pigs" for the building, we spent our first week and a half without gas (so no cooking or hot water), a broken refrigerator (partially our fault, shhh), and no cable. All of those things have been fixed except for the cable, and we are getting close to done to putting everything away.

The only ridiculous thing about the house is the neighborhood. We are right on the edge of the Omaha Midtown Neighborhood, which is certainly full of beautiful building and history. The Gerald Ford Birthplace is within a few blocks of my house, actually. The less attractive part is all the prostitution and drugs in the area very close to mine. I suppose I'll live.

I recently started an internship at First National Bank. This is my third year working here in the last four, so it's kind of a neat experience to come back. I am currently working in the Business Recovery Services division. The goals of this group go nicely with all the risk management efforts we do in J.D. Edwards. This seems to go a little further than the standard risk identification, mitigation, and avoidance strategies prescribed by the modified RUP process we do in our Design Studio projects. I'll write more on that later.

Other than all those things, I'm looking forward to doing a lot of reading over the summer and hopefully I can come up with some insightful and interesting things to put here in the months to come.

Ok, time to stop pretending to work and hit the gym. ;-)

Cheers,

David