Quick post today as I’m running late as it is, but there’s some stuff I wanted to talk about.

First, I ordered another proof yesterday. I’m expecting this to be the last — there’s probably still spelling and grammar problems scattered about, but whatever; I’ve seen enough typos in professionally edited material that I’m not too concerned about it. I’m really just wanting to double check the formatting, as I changed the indentation and it might’ve screwed things up. Otherwise I would’ve just approved it sight-unseen, and we’d be having a release party right now.

Second, I’ve come to a conclusion: I’m not going to be working at the company I’m at for much longer. It’s just not worth it — I used to love programming, and now I hate it. I know why at least: it’s the environment I’m in. It’s too stagnant, no one ever wants to try anything new. I came to this realization this morning as I was looking at MonoRail, an MVC architecture for ASP.NET web apps. Going through the tutorial, I got really excited — it’s easy, it’s clean, it’d make our site probably 10 times easier to work with.

And no one there would give a rat’s ass. They might think it was nifty, but they wouldn’t want anything to do with it.

And that’s fine; I can’t change them, and I’m not going to. And it’s not even about MonoRail in particular — that’s just the example I have at hand. I might be able to convince my boss to check it out, but the other web developer would dismiss it, and since he has seniority there, it’d be his opinion they’d pay most attention to. He’s just old fashioned in some respects, and lazy in others, and he fits in quite well there — the whole mindset is to touch absolutely nothing unless you have to, regardless of how terrible it is to deal with.

Fine, just not for me.

Patti and I are talking about moving anyways, and that’s something we’re going to be discussing over the weekend. I mean moving like back home or somewhere else altogether, not just up to Olympia or Lacey. Get out of this damned state and get closer to people we can relate to.

Smoke time; gotta run.