Work

Ugh, what a day. Started out not bad, went in early (leave home at 6:30 get to work between 8 and 8:30), and the traffic wasn’t horrible. One of the projects I’ve been working on has been some data storage for clients, basically a data vault. Anyway, in my tweaking and twiddling of some settings […]

Started doing a split shift today… that means I get to start work at home a bit earlier (an hour, so 7:30 instead of 8:30), but go into work in post rush hour traffic, around 9 or 9:30 or so. I also figured out I can get up an hour later in the morning…. Somehow

After spilling some salad dressing on his keyboard, coworker licked it off the keys then proclaimed: “Ew! tastes like F1!” Well, it was funny at the time….

First day of work complete. I have to admit, getting up at quarter to 6 was a bit of a shock to the system, I have a feeling mostly because I had those first-day jitters, and didn’t actually even let the alarm go off because I slept so poorly the night before. Shouldn’t have, I

Fun stuff, I got an accepted an offer from the company that Wim works at, so I’m now (or at least on tuesday will be) back in the employed lifestyle. This was the company that I’ve been wanting to work at for a while now, which means I’ll basically be doing the stuff I do

Just a note to say that the interview yesterday (at the place in north van) went well. I met the rest of the team, had lunch, and discovered that all Cactus Clubs have free wireless hotspots. Next step is to wait for the $boss to come back early next week, and see where we go

I’m just about to head into North Vancouver for my third “interview”. This time it’s lunch with the rest of the team that I would be working with, to make sure that we all “click”. I’m looking forward to this, as if the rest of the team are similar to the people I’ve met already,

Just overheard a conversation out in the hall here at work. (The boss on playful rivalry with another coworker) ” … we’ve been having this battle for years now. So the last laptop I got when it came in I got an email saying ‘Your new laptop came in. I opened it. Now you have

Today work was nice enough to send me to / let me go to a VMWare conference in Vancouver. Long day, but I came back with some interesting ideas about how we could do our QA process a bit better with some of the virtualization technologies that VMWare has. They also (basically) give away all

IT Guy: [finishing conversation on phone] Ok, bye. [in an abrupt tone] Management Drone: You know, when you finish a conversation with a customer you should try to be polite, finish off with ‘thanks, have a great day’ or something like that. ITG: I would never do that to a customer, I’m always polite with