More things today. Saw cadiolas’ presentation for his 440 project at the school, a java installer called BIAS which was quite cool. Good job! I hit this on the way out to the Burnaby PD to see Cat, who works there as a computer guy, who introduced me around to some of the members, as I wanted to talk to people who could tell me what it was like to be a cop. I talked a lot to BJ and Ben, who have both been there for 20+ years, and wouldn’t change anything for the world. A shining endorsement to be sure. They were both really nice guys who seemed to have their heads on straight, and asked me almost as many questions as I asked them.
After a couple of hours of chatting and touring, and getting a bit of a better handle on how the recruitment procedure goes, and what things are like period, I mentioned that this is all nice and good, but it’d be nice to talk to someone who is a more recent member, and who can tell me what training is like now. The dude (Andy, the watch officer and guy in charge of shit that happens) said that he could hook me up with a ride along with someone by the name of Scudd, who was relatively new (a couple of years). So tomorrow evening (you get fast turn around when you know people there I guess) I get to ride around with someone and find out what it’s really like (and more importantly, what training is like, and get a view of it all from someone who hasn’t hasn’t had 25 years to love their job 🙂
Ok, enough of that, I’m sure I’m scaring the crap out of my mom 🙂 My thing is when I get something into my head I have to research the crap out of it until I know everything, and I’ve been that way forever 🙂 Just think of it as me going on a wild tangent that nothing will ever come of k? 🙂
I’m currently setting up a GenToo linux system. It’s attraction is that it downloads all it’s sources and compiles everythign specifically for the computer you’re using it on, so theoretically you’ve got a bit of a speed/efficiency increase. It’s chugging away compiling and installing things, so I’ll just let it go. I was thinking of setting up a *BSD system, but once it’s installed, it’s really just another UNIX, and I know unix. The spare box is only partially mine, so I may turn it into a Novell [archive.org link] server or windows programming workstation or something that will help me learn more to make my resume [archive.org link] look more attractive.
I think I’ll slack on the gym tomorrow…. I’ve been going every day or ever second day for the last couple of weeks, and feeling good about it. Well, feeling “good” is a bit of a misnomer, as my left shoulder is in a bit of pain right now. Maybe I’ll go for a run tomorrow though, I think there’s going to be good weather tomorrow. Course, I may not 🙂