tired

Another late night last night... I love coding Flex... hate coding Flash, and that's killing me right now: the flash movie works locally and on the server when you bring it up on its own... so we know it works as a unit... but when it's called from my Flex app... it doesn't work completely.

WTF

Have a call out to a fellow developer, hopefully he can enlighten me.

Kyle's cranky and nervous this morning... another orthodontist's appointment today. Last week's installation of the brackets and the bottom braces and wires had Kyle eating nothing for a day, and only soft foods for another three, and grumpy the entire time (actually more than grumpy... downright hostile at times)... so with today's installation of the upper braces and wire (and possibly the palate expander, too), we're bracing for what could be an incredibly unpleasant weekend (a three-dayer... woo freaking hoo... begin the IV of rum and tequila now please, doctor). He didn't sleep well last night, and he doesn't think he'll be able to sleep much tonight (as was the case last weekend)... so add fatigue to pain.

As for me, yesterday was horrible with this coding issue... the only good point was Jack's Open House... he's doing so much stuff in Spanish... but the really cool thing is that it was the Spanish stuff he was most proud of: he wanted to talk about those items, read those pieces, more than the stuff in Ingles. Pretty damn freakin' cool. And his artwork kicked ass.

But today, it's back to coding hell, with a side trip to Army command bureaucratic purgatory: a conference call with all the commanders whose soldiers are using the app I've built... they're all happy (or at least they were ecstatic during the last call, and I've heard no complaints since), and that's part of the issue... I received two days ago a development roadmap for the next three quarters. I feel like Pacino:

Every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in.

Or the Bill Paxton character in Aliens:

And, man, I was short.

I thought we were wrapping up the app, and I'd be able to rejoin my web team brethren... not so much... but at least it's job security... that's a good thing...

right?