It has been a while!

Hi folks,

I can't believe it's been more than 5 years since my last post.  So much time has past by and, unfortunately, little of it has involved aviation.  Turns out when you buy a house, you have less time and money for all things aviation!

For those wondering what happened with the plane, my building partner had to move back to Texas for a new job.  I didn't have the space (despite getting a house), the money, the resources, or the knowledge to finish this project on my own.  So we ended up selling the partially built kit.  We sold it for a little bit more than what we paid for the kit.  I think our labor came out to be something like a nickel an hour.  I would like to think the buyer got a great bargain!

As far as flying is concerned, my last logbook entry is dated 2012.  (That time and money thing again!)  I really do hope to begin flying again soon.

Meanwhile, in my professional life, I've gone from doing development from day to day to becoming a product manager.  Yes, I have gone to the dark side!  It's an interesting and challenging transition.  A lot more customer facing as well as business oriented.  I definitely think my technical background is an asset in this new role.  I guess I will find out.

However, I still feel the need to code.  So, I entered Udacity's Swift nano degree program and am learning how to build iOS applications.  That program encourages you to write blogs to explain how to perform certain tasks.  So, hopefully, you should see some posts over the next few months covering iOS topics.

At the end of the course is a capstone project where I have to build my own application from scratch. I would love the application to be aviation related.  If you have any ideas, please send them my way via the comments.