“We” (I?) are at the half way point of 2010 and I must admit that it has been a stellar year so far! I’ve been focused on playing good, hard rock ‘n roll by joining up with Carl, Terry & Shawn to form “Villains Of Yesterday”. We’ve had a lot of great shows, and even better response from everyone that has seen us play, which is always encouraging to hear! We have several shows under our belts at this date, and it really is a pleasure playing with these guys, especially given our knack for being able to improv some tasty music. We’ve also managed to release what used to be called an “extended play” or “EP”, which we made available on CD and via digital distribution on those “interwebs”. Another footnote in history, much like “Creature Of Habit” and “Nickle Bag”.

It seems like time is moving faster than ever, as each waking day seems to be over, and the next one well on it’s way. The son is almost as tall as his mother, and continues to surprise me almost everyday. The career is humming along quite fine, and I’ve spent the better part of this spring focusing on creating an ASP.NET MVC rendering framework that will soon power the MSDN & TechNet Websites. No small feat, especially for a team of our size! This is my 10th year with Microsoft as a “FTE”, and I’m still finding new challenges every year, albeit those challenges are leaning more towards business issues, instead of technical issues.

I feel good, the sun is out, at least for the time being, and I’m able to breath in everything that surrounds me, which makes it easy to stop and smell the roses…

Grand amour - SG