Today is my first day at my new job, which means lots of paperwork and setup. I have been working on getting the dev tree checked out and setup on my machine.. Whee…
work
I’m going back to boston, to boston, to boston
Around 2pm today I am going to leave for yet another trip to Boston, this time searching for an apartment. I tried to call some of these places yesterday, but all of them were closed for “Patriot’s Day”, which is a holiday that is only celebrated in New England, apparently (I don’t care, I will get it off next year. :P). So I have to make some calls today and set up some appointments tomorrow to look at places. I found a few that I am interested in, but I have to see if they are available now and if they are truly as cool as they looked in phosphor.
I am charging up my MP3 player’s batteries for the trip, and doing some laundry so I don’t have to be a dirtball while I am crashing at Adam and Rory’s. :)
Back to your regularly scheduled programming
I think I got most of the VoiceXML scripting out of my system for a while. I have a few other ideas buzzing around, some of which would be really cool. I was thinking of adapting the Quotable JLG and turning it into a “Joke a Day” system, or “Call a Joke” system or even a phone-based version of fortune(1).
Still looking for that job, I have had a few leads, but almost 9/10 of them are from recruiters who simply don’t understand my background. I have a primarily OOP background, so I don’t want to do any COBOL development… Grumble.
Anyway, I know something will come along, but I would kinda like something to keep me occupied during the day. :)
Finally
I finally have a beat to give an update… So, James is arriving today… He is visiting for the Moby concert, and his visit comes at a time where I could use a bit of relaxation.
Jerry has taken over leadership on the project I was working on for work. While on one hand I feel like I have failed, I now feel like my life has suddenly gotten happier… I didn’t hate work, I simply didn’t have enough time between sleep and class.
yay
I got my Stevie Ray Vaughan CD’s today, and they are great… I also got my absentee ballot for the upcoming presidental election… I am really split on this one though… Not voting for Bush, but I don’t know if I want to vote for Gore…. Or do I want to vote for a 3rd party? Sigh…
Work is moving along, but I chased a evil bug for quite awhile today…. It’s kinda OK though, bugs happen, and finding them is kinda fun, even when they run you around for awhile…
ugh.
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…
Phew
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!
Pillow Epiphanies are always the best.
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.
Good Night….
….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. :)
Internal Server Error: Wizard Needs Food Badly
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….