The idea was for me to take a month or two, get my technical skills more up to date, and then enter the non-Microsoft workforce.
"So how's Java programming coming?" Allie asked.
"Great. Fantastic. I've gotten so, so much done around the house because of it. Painted the foundation and bathroom, hung a flowerbox, stained the teak furniture, put up two fences. But now I've done all the work on the house there is to do. I'm officially out of distractions."
"And thus do we enter the era of John Sleeping 22 Hours Per Day."