I am really tired, and I am behind at work, but fortunately Jerry has been kind enough to offer to help me out now that he is caught up. It is always hard to balance work and school, and when both are as demanding as they currently are, all the help I can get is welcome….

I have that dumbass Astronomy class this afternoon.. We have spent weeks on spectra fundamentals, but we are just getting to relating it to astronomy. And the lab is silly too; Sorry, I thought that an Astronomy lab would focus on looking at stars, not mapping our local horizon…

I ordered some Stevie Ray Vaughan today…. A friend from high school turned me on to him many years ago, but I had never actually owned any of his albums. He sure could play…

So I got a phone call asking me to come out to California for an interview around Thanksgiving… Needless to say I am looking forward to going, and will be giddy with andicipation until then. :)

Work, work, work, work, work, crash, work, work..

Been a super-busy weekend… I am starting to look forward to the time after Halloween… As you readers are probably aware of, we have a big demo around Halloween at work, and all the scrambling I have been doing recently has been to prepare for that. I am probably going to avoid work a bit after that demo…. I wouldn’t quite say I am completely over-extended right now, but I look forward to a minimum of free-time.

Time for the house meeting!

I hate going to bed with bugs in my code. It has always bothered me so much. So I give up on debugging this off-by-one bug just before my last update, resolved myself to go to bed, brushed my teeth, turned out the lights, got in bed, and sat there for 5 minutes fuming that I had that bug.

Thankfully, a stroke of genius occured and I bolted out of bed, solved the problem, and now the function seems to work perfectly (at least with my test data). I love when that happens.

….or Morning…. I was in a pretty decent code groove tonight. When I surfaced from it it was 6am and I had reasonable functionality. There were distractions along the way, but they never managed to fully derail me.

I did start watching Strange Brew in the background, but it was sucking away too much of my attention so I had to stop it. :)

While I was working I had Mozilla building from source in the background. I have had trouble building it under FreeBSD in the past (mostly to my ignorance), but I had a successful build tonight that hauled ass. :)

Woke up at 9am for our Friday Morning Meeting at work, and went to my stupid Astronomy class. :)

I am feeling a bit more comfortable with my timelines at work now that I know I don’t really have to deal with any CORBA stuff thanks to an intermediary layer…

I was supposed to go to Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome this weekend with my Dad and my Uncle, but my part in those plans was scrubbed because I am simply too busy… Talk about a load of blow….

so my interview didn’t go wonderfully yesterday, but I don’t consider it a disaster either. I was ill, and nervous, and I stumbled on a few questions and simply didn’t know the answers to others. That could have also been the point, to see how I dealt under pressure, so… So it goes… They are going to get back to me by Monday to let me know if they want to fly me out. If all else fails, I can always apply again. :)

This plague that I have come down with is really slowing me down both productivity and thought wise. I hope it passes soon, because I don’t need the slowdown right now. :)

Wow. I am looking forward to the interview in nervous anticipation….

This damn cold has to go away. :)

I took the Stat test today…. Pretty sure I did OK on it, but I probably would have done better if I wasn’t so sick. I had a wicked sinus headache before, so I took some DayQuil, which made me a little spacy…

I am now in the Computer Science labs waiting for a team meeting for our Operating Systems II project.

Still anxious about the interview tomorrow. I am going to be brushing up on all the sticky stuff in C and C++ tonight. I don’t expect any hardcore tech questions over the phone (I would expect that to be saved for the in-person), but it’s always good to be prepared.

GeoCaching sounds so freaking cool. Anyone got a GPS they aren’t using anymore?

I am gonna finish reading this chapter then I am ‘Quil-ing it and hitting the sack.

BTW, I tweaked my styles a bit more, so that the ‘comments’ (or talkback) stuff is always displayed at the bottom of the ’entry cell. I did this because if someone had a short entry, their picture in the sidebar would expand the row, but the talkback links were way up by the entry, leaving all this blank space. The new way looks better….. I made all my styles public, so if you are at all interested (even to use them as a starting point), let me know…

G’Night…