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I probably am not really allowed to go into much detail regarding the work I’ve been doing recently, but it is super interesting (well, some of it is)…

I have been working for a company named Umbria lately on nights and weekends (and so has my wonderful wife, and I believe soon to be my wife’s mother). The work we all do is relatively mindless (read blogs and classify them), but it pays decently for a part-time job, and it couldn’t have come at a better time; we sorta needed the money with Sofia on the way in the next <30 days.

The other work I do is a bit more in-depth and has to do with … gah, I don’t know what all I agreed to not mention; I should really read that document again. I can likely say it has to do with XML, pattern matching and requires me to think a good bit more than the other task does. If I had my way, I would be doing this for hours every night instead of the other work, but the other work has a higher priority. Anyway, suffice it to say that I find the current work interesting, and the market this company is in INFINITELY interesting.

There are SO many exciting things going on right now out in the tech world and I really do think I’m lucky to be able to be a part of it; I get to work with technology at a university, seeing people learn all around me and learning a lot myself. I also then get to come home and work for a small cutting-edge company who is involved in some of the most interesting research out there (imho). It really doezn’t get much better than that.