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I have to apologize to everyone for being so quiet lately. Just tons of stuff going on in my life and not the least of which is I finally bought a house with the property I have been looking for for so long. House is ~1900 sq feet with just under 12 acres (~half a million square feet… Yes, I really wanted about 21-22 acres so I could say yes I have one MILLLION sq ft in my best Dr. Evil voice but you take what you can get these days right?). I will of course be getting pictures and posting them at some point. Lots of projects for me on the property. Anyway, that isn’t not the least of everything going on in the personal life plus I am still working quite a bit and have to fly back out to Federal Way again this week.

As for joeware tools… Thanks for the hundreds, err probably at this point thousands of emails… I will be responding to them all as soon as I get a chance. Thanks for the suggestions and if you just wrote to say how much you like the utilities, you are welcome. 🙂

The only two utilities I am currently working on are adfind and admod, I have some cool new mods in them but for the life of me I don’t recall what they are at this moment in time because I haven’t had a chance to look at them in a bit.

Oh, for those asking after whether or not I am updating Active Directory Third Edition to the Fourth Edition for Longhorn. I have not been contacted by O’Reilly publishing and I haven’t contacted them. Quite frankly I am not sure if I could find the time to do it anyway. Don’t despair though, I do want to write some more and hopefully on the deck I need to build on the back of the new house I will find the time and energy to slap some words together in a semi-lucid and incredibly humourous manner and get them out there for people to read. My would love to write books would be books on AdFind/AdMod with tons of AD and ADAM info or a fully blown book on ADAM since that chapter in the AD3E book has been quite popular from what I am seeing in my emails. I would also like to write the next great American best seller so I could dedicate the rest of my life to taking it easy and having fun doing stuff like that some more but I haven’t thought of what that book will say yet so I have to hold off.

Take care everyone… And to all friends and family that I haven’t spoken to recently, I am very sorry, I will try to get back into the saddle again soon. I will be up in Cadillac for a family reunion of sorts at the end of the month at my sister’s (who lives in Michigan) place. She is going to be simultaneously thrilled with me and pissed at me when she sees me but that is how the brother/sister relationship is supposed to be. I just hope she doesn’t kill me before she realizes how thrilled she is with me. While I am not a small guy, my sister (who lives in Michigan, the one in California is a punk) is a tough shit and grew up in a house with 5 boys so you know she doesn’t use her fists for spreading cake frosting. Those knuckles are scarred.

I have to also say the Cicadas are going nuts right now. I love it, nothing better than a hot sunny day, a nice cool breeze, and cicadas droning in the background. Reminds me of when I was just a small runt in northern Michigan growing up.

     joe