There are days that come upon us, and from one minute to the next of that day you would give everything you have just to start it all over again.  Today is that day for me.  I hope everyone has a better one than I am.

I went down and filled out all the paperwork for my new apartment today. It’s hard moving to an apartment after having built and lived in your own home, I find myself constantly comparing the amenities which in no way match the house. I figure in a couple of years I’ll be caught up on everything in my life and will be able to look at the option of building another home.

But, until then the new place will have to do. I think a one bedroom would have been fine, but with London having London 3 or 4 days a week, I thought it was important for her to have a room of her own. Everyone wants there own space; even when your two. The apartment has everything I could need I suppose, they had a choice of 2 floor plans that fit my needs. One was very open on a single floor and then this one was the same size, just smaller rooms. I don’t plan on purchasing a lot of furniture for a while and figured with the smaller rooms it would be a bit cozier and wouldn’t appear so empty.

So I have set my move in date for the weekend of October 12th. Just in time for Halloween, which will be fun as I’ll have London and we can explore the neighborhood together as she gets hyped up on candy.

Ya, this is way off the mark for me, but I like the guy what can I say. His music was introduced to me a few years back while I was in Hawaii on vacation visiting family of the girl I was dating. A very talented performer, one of those guys you look at and would not expect the voice that comes out of him. He passed away a while back, it was sad, but he lived a good life.

This is one of those classic songs that he did a great rendition of, so enjoy.

I’ve been pretty busy lately and have not had the time to dedicate to this project that I originally wanted to, so the development has been slow but steady.  Just to give a quick synopsis of where I’m at, I’m utilizing a standard MVC (model-view-control) format. Do to the development being for personal use with no plans of redistribution, it has allowed my initial footprint to be very small. Granted this comes with the trade off of some easy to install, “I don’t have to think” code implementation, but it’s for my own personal use and being I wrote it, I know where everything is.

My current progress is pretty good though, I have finished the initial design of the “front controller” putting most of the work in .htaccess combined with a small but effective autoload sequence for requested library files. The URI parser is also very simple, yet effective for what I’ll be using it for.

So with the front end controller in place along with my base config, I have been able to load my database wrapper with connection, my own session handler, execution timer, exception handler, smtp mailer, an encryption module and the base system/application with an initial load of 2.3ms with a +.4ms variance. Granted it’s still in it’s infancy but it’s a start.