There is no tooth fairy

I don't claim to have a normal house.  We don't strive to be different, but normal just doesn't always happen in our place.

One such oddity is the tooth fairy.  Our kids don't believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or Halloween...but the tooth fairy is another matter.  You don't just mess with the tooth fairy.

This has now come to a head with our six year old Lily loosing teeth faster than an old school hockey player at a triple header.  She just lost one tooth yesterday, and three others are currently loose and ready to go at any time.  Should make for a fun Christmas this year.

Now combine that with two parents that are a bit frazzled right now.  The wife is due in a month, and dad is busy dealing with mom being due in a month -- plus Thanksgiving, plus Christmas (minus Santa Claus) -- the Tooth Fairy has fallen behind in its duties.

At this point, Lily figured it out.  Luckily she is a good sport, and still willing to play along.  For the third night in a row, her tooth will be in a zip lock bag, underneath her pillow.

Hopefully the tooth fairy doesn't need further directions than that.

Joining Elegant Code

After three years on my own domain (going strong since Aug 2004), I'm moving my technical content to ElegantCode.com, joining my friends David Starr, Jason Grundy, and David Betts.

Note: I'm only moving my technical content to ElegantCode, which gives me four blogs to keep up to date.  I need to do some content separation just to keep things straight.  So here it goes:

• ElegantCode: Software development related posts
• BSDG.org: Industry news, user group updates
• BoiseCodeCamp: code camp news (yes, that does happen)
• ChrisBrandsma.com: updates and musing from family Chris Brandsma.

Actually, I do think this is a good thing, put in a little bit of virtual separation for all of my mental parts.  Plus, as a side benefit, it will make my blog a whole lot less confusing to the rest of my family.

Also, for the of my friends and family: join FaceBook and find me there.

Visual Studio 2008 and .Net 3.5 due this month

This has been making the rounds for about a week now, but Visual Studio 2008 and .Net 3.4 is expected to be released this month (November 2007).
More info below:
http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/11/05/teched-developer-in-europe.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/default.aspx
Also there is a rumor that the Microsoft ASP.Net MVC framework will also be released REAL SOON (meaning: when they feel like it, but probably after the Visual Studio 2008 launch -- and they will probably change the name).
For those of you who don't know: the Asp.Net MVC Framework is a MonoRail/Ruby On Rails-esk web development framework for Asp.Net. It does not use WinForms at all. This actually has a lot of people really excited right now. Phil Haack and Rob Conery both left their current jobs for Microsoft just so they could help work on this.
Haack must be the single greatest last name for a developer....
Scott Hanselman (now a blue badge Microsofty) has two videos from the ALT.NET conference last month with Scott Guthrie and himself.
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottGuMVCPresentationAndScottHaScreencastFromALTNETConference.aspx