While there are some things I will be tweaking based on testing and shifting sales feedback I’m between gigs as of today.  Businesses are loathe to spend money right now.  I’ve got some “real work” to finish up, the Mix it Up! tour and then hopefully I can make a giant dent in my very large personal backlog.  Assuming I’ve got roughly a month, I wonder how much I can get done?  My home office is definitely my most productive location…

• New server: I’m moving my Discountasp.net sites over to a dedicated server.  I haven’t been doing too much “sysadmin” tasks of late and this will force me to come up to speed on IIS7 and Server 2008.  DamonPayne.com should be a lot faster next week.  I’m going to throw Visual SVN up on this bad boy so I can take my various side projects with me everywhere.
• Sharepoint: I’ll eventually be throwing Sharepoint up on this server, forcing me to come up to speed on Sharepoint 2007.
• AGT: The Argentum Tela project has atrophied somewhat as I diverted time to code contests and billable work.  I really need to get back into this so I can finish it and then start working on the Silverlight 3 port.  A WPF port is also in the mix.
• TastingProject.com – I’ve long been talking in my personal circles about my “social networking for wine lovers” effort.  This will be outrageously cool.  I am also using this site as a mechanism to evaluate the recently release Asp.Net MVC effort and get my head back into the CSS universe, much as I hate it.
• Computer rebuild: I’ll never buy an nForce chipset board again.  My workstation mobo has slowly deteriorated to the point of hilarity, occasionally to the point where Vista tells me the BIOS is not ACPI complaint.  I’m rebuilding with a good ole Intel board and moving up to 8GB of RAM while I’m at it.
• Parallel extensions: I’ve got a couple of shelved Parallel Extensions articles I need to bring out.  One revisits the task trees concept and the other deals with databases.
• SQL Server 2008 – as part of the parallel extensions work and general geeky curiosity I’ll be evaluating SQL Server 2008 once I rebuild my system.
• Top secret HandWaver product.  I’m pretty sure I can pull of the technology.  If I can also craft a marketing message that communicates the coolness to the target audience it will be a miracle.

My goal is to spend about 50 hours a week on all of these things, working from home and various co-work spots, and get a huge chunk of backlog done while also doing whatever networking is needed in order to get billable again.