Well my mini-vacation is over, back to work in the morning.  But I got a lot of big items done and had some fun.

Friday and Saturday were typical, then on Sunday my church had a campout so I got to hang out with some of other members to get to know them a bit better.  Played some Cornhole, swam in the pool, played some pool (you know the balls and stick), then saw something I have never saw before... a shooting star.  Was pretty cool, living in the city most of your life you don't see all the stars very much.  

Woke up the next morning and went home, only to leave right away to go to the Beach Waterpark with my oldest son.  Well I wasn't blown away... it is certainly no better than the water part at Kings Island.  But it is a change of pace for me and my son (the other children are a bit to young to really enjoy a water park).  Was a bit stunned to see that they charge for the floating tubes!! What kind of rip-off is that?  $8 just to ride the slides that you have in the park I paid to get into?  Supplying them doesn't seem to be a problem with Kings Island, why is it one for them?  Found out how fat and out of shape I have become, one of their 'rides' is a monkey bar like setup where you go from bar to bar to the end to hit a chain at the end... made it for two or three bars and fell into the 7ft water!  How sad is that??

Also over this time I've been doing some programming on some side projects.  Added a feature to this blog that will replace certain words with links (already posted about).  Finally fixed the double post issue (if you use a reader you got multiple post for a while).  But the fix resulted in my last 10 post being resent to your reader. Sorry.  But it is now fixed!  Hopefully my text replacer code gets added to this product as it would be cool to be a contributer to an open source project.

Then I wanted to automate the addition of weekly sermons on the website for my church.  So I first created some web services that allows me to enter the information (title, author, etc...) into the database.  Then I created an application that does three things:
1. Adds the ID3 tags (the title, authort, etc...) to the mp3 file.  I used this library for that.
2. Uploads the files via FTP to the server.  THIS WAS DIFFICULT.  Most libraries I found hung at the end of the upload.  I was dreading having to write my own C++ library that does this not using .NET's ftp code... finally found this library that works like a champ.
3. Calls the web service I wrote.

This will save me a ton of time each Sunday. 

But back to the grind in the morning...