tfl: The Flatiron Life

What a Great Day in Chicago
The temperature reached the mid 70s! Thankfully I was stuck in my window cube all day were I could be tortured by the view of the great weather. At least I could enjoy it while waiting for the bus.

Today was a normal day at work. I jumped through a scheduled hoop today. Code Walk through of the Loan Application I have been developing. There are still some bugs I need to fix and modification I need to integrate. There are several things that I need to get done still, but I am waiting on our BA leader here to finalize text from the client and waiting on the developers in Annapolis to finish implementing the business logic for the application. I am going to begin to test the whole thing, which is will take considerable time. I am going to spread the testing out over several days and begin working on my other tasks. Tomorrow I am going to begin to develop the next piece. This is a few (I am thinking 4) pages for identifying Co-Makers on the loan. My plan is to finish this tomorrow, but if all goes normally I will not finish for several days.
The Big Boss told me today (after a little nudging) that I will likely be going to FFX to company HQ for 6 months. Then off to Madison Wisconsin for 18 months after that. This is a big 2 year project to implement a tax system for the state. But nothing is ever firm at my company, so I am not making any broad plans.

My sister IMed me at work a picture she and I from Valentines Day. I will post it as soon as she sends it to me. (Every one point and laugh at her until she does!)

Reading:
Pages 1-4 of Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised (RRONR) Yes I am that kind of nerd.
This was just the definition of what an assembly is.

The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison & the Founding of the Federal Republic (Madison)
Finished Chapters 3 which was the end of Part I
Part I was about the formation of Madison’s concepts of Liberty and his understanding of the failure of the Articles of Confederation.
He has come to the conclusion that the Articles as they stand are inadequate for preserving the Union. And he fears that if the Union fall so too will the great Republican Experiment.
In Chapter 4 (111-126 read) the convention has met in NYC to reconcile these problems and attempt to bind up the Union. No one has really resolved to propose a wholly new constitution. As we all know this will eventually happen. So far most of the Virginal Plan (Madison was a Virginian) has been approved. One interesting piece that was not, which the book concentrates on, is an article by Madison that would allow the Federal Government to have a veto power over any legislation passed by the states. As a libertarian today I find this difficult to take from the Father of the Constitution. But his purpose was not to give the Federal government total power. There was much a since that the states were suffering from over-democrazation. The Federal Government was to be a Republic of Republics; this was introduced as a check to wild swings of the people. In the end no veto power was ever adopted, even for limited purposes. Today the courts have the power to ensure that state law does not trounce on the laws of the Union.

Day 5 of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
May God be with out Soldiers as they fight bravely to free us from the color coded world the terrorist have placed us in.
This is the Land of the Free because it is the Home of the Brave.