Well, the word on the street is that I'll be out of a job tomorrow. Yes, it's true and yes, I volunteered for the pretty good package to voluntarily separate myself from Dell.

Anyway, I'm in the process of lining up new work but will be employment free until at least mid to late January of my own volition. If Hongyun's businesses stay healthy and we keep adding to our cash stockpiles, then I'll stay out of gainful employment for a bit longer and pursue a degree of some sort. Here's the rundown of things that I would like to do:

1. Update HongyunArt.com. It needs to cover a broad base of activities that Hongyun is actually engaged in. No problemo...maybe a 2 days of solid work.

2. Update XiaoDaVinci.com. Slight redesign and more site sections. Easy peasy stuff...1 to 1.5 days solid work max.

3. Super secret project 1: Glenn (my partner in this venture) has been chomping at the bit to get my overbooked brain all to himself. Come, Dec 15th or so, I'm 100% full time on SSP1. 2-3 weeks for functioning prototype with hacked up drupal and the like...working over Xmas? You betcha!

4. Super secret project 2: This is my own baby and will revolutionize the world. Well, probably not, but it will fix a MAJOR headache I have these days around my digital content. It will be done in Windows using .net and c# first since that's what I know and enjoy using. I'll try my luck at Java or C++ to make it portable if time allows. C# v0.1 will be 2 weeks. The goal is to have it function for 3 major APIs in that time frame. Mid January, here I come.

5. dodoskido redesign: Movable Type 3.2? Are you kidding me? Yeah seriously...dodoskido is totally long in the tooth, totally hacked up to hell version of movable type. In fact, I started messing with this thing in 2000 with MT 2.1 and haven't looked back. It begs for at least a simple template update and hopefully a nice tie in with social networking tools that are so prevalent. 4 days...We'll see, my young padowan....we'll see.

6. GRE - Oh no, not again! Yeah yeah, I took the GMAT and did rather well, but not well enough for Haas. Maybe I'll retake the GMAT too while I'm at it. And maybe throw in the LSAT if they cover similar ground.

7. Crash some courses at Stanford. Also complete some ITunesU courses along with doing all of the exercises.

8. Unconsumerist.com - YABI (yet another blog idea) to address my personal wrestling with desire to buy and need to not.

9. Processing, Flash, Photoshop - visualization and design are hobbies of mine that just have been begging for some attention and I hope that I'll have enough time to at least fix up some of my favorite photos over the past 8 years or so. I'd also like to work on some API connected visualizatoin