October 11, 2005

I got a call from my friend JR last night.  We hadn't spoken in a while, 
but he is proabbly still my closest friend (he was my best man in my 
wedding).  He said he was finally going to leave Cleveland.  He wants to 
live in Pheonix, AZ.  It'll be sad to see him go since he is one of the 
very few college friends I still hear from at all.  It's a bit 
depressing.  I don't have many friends left in the area any longer.  
It's mostly just me and my wife, which is fine.  I don't really know the 
neighbors that well yet, but they all seem nice enough.  Of course, with 
winter coming, I'll hardly see them anymore anyway.  

I've mad some progress on my Freenet client, exhale.  I' really 
simplified the interface, but I've discovered that it's bugginess was 
almost entirely due to a Freenet library I was using.  It was a really 
garbled piece of work, so I rewrote my own.  IT's almost working, but 
somehting si still a bit wrong, and finding the problem is difficult 
since the Freenet documentation leaves a lot to be desired.  I'm sure 
I'll figure it out, but I'm loooking at a release before the end of the 
month, hoepfully.

I do like writing software that is available for download.  It make me 
feel productive, but in a way I enjoy.  Of course, I also enjoy being 
productive at home, by which I mean painitng walls or mowing the yard.  
It's just different.  

Adios,
Jeff
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