1. Work/Programming I “met” the new team today.. as in we had an on-the-phone meeting. One person is in England (but is leaving the company at the end of January), one is in Australia (but is leaving end of um.. December(?) I think) and honestly I’m not exactly sure where the rest of them are. The meeting was interesting. This…
Five Things: CHANGE!!!
1. Work/Programming CHANGE! In the “Good News” category. It’s now official so I feel okay with announcing it. I now have a job after the end of this year!! Starting October 1 (and continuing for the foreseeable future) I’m now a “Revenue Platform Systems Engineer” (Big fancy title that means my department is changing… and that I’ll be working on…
Friday Five: Non-dieting weight loss
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. Not much going on at work since I’ve been back. While I was gone I had a lot of emails that essential read “OMG THE WORLD IS ON FIRE…
The Getting Married Life
This one is long so I’m going to cut it here. Interested parties can click through to read more. Short summary: I got married.. it was kinda cool.
Friday Five – God is an iron
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. On Tuesday I completed my part of the multi-departmental big huge giant “make work” project. My part at least seems to have gone off without even a whimper. On…
Friday Five: Pre-Wedding Edition
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. A lot of make-work at the moment. Some big-wig came up with an “this must be done before the end of the month” task and I’m pretty certain they…
Five Things: Smashing Looming Deadlines
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. I finished my adopted project early on Thursday last week but then someone else had to deploy it (I was on PTO on Friday and sick on Monday and…
Five Things: Chill-axing
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. Adopted project is zipping along. I may even finish it early. It’s actually been kind of fun. Like playing a game with schitzphrentic rules where I’m not allowed to…
Five Things: Little fish
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. Pet projects deployed. This time there were no problems. Good to see them off and running. New adopted projects took a really really long time to get the environment…
Friday Five: Good News!
1. Work/Programming No change so far with my work situation. I’m employed through the end of the year.. and still up in the air as to what will happen next year. Two more people in a nearby department were laid off this week. I spoke to a manager person and this was attributed to budget cuts. Still.. lay offs staggered…