Personal

Today was actually a very hectic day at work. There was lots to do, but the big issue was the stuff I was scheduled to do just took up so much time. I had my company orientation today. It took up about 3 hours of my day. I know i have been at the place for well over a month but they don’t do orientation that often so this was mine. After the orientation I had about an hour to get stuff out of the way before I went out of the office for the rest of the afternoon to visit our architects. We are working to look at renovating the office so we were visiting them to get some presentation. It was productive but time consuming. While all that was going on I had at least two other research project dropped on my lap that I don’t know when I will find time to look at them before other schedule activities come up next week.

On top of all that I gave myself a due date of tomorrow for two proposals I have to write up. One of them is basically done, and the other is not even started. I guess when it rains it does pour!

Since the world is really small, the architect we use happens to be in the building of an old company I worked for. I emailed one of my friends still there and he was around so on the way out I dropped by to say hi. I got to see about a half a dozen people I know. It was good to catch up.

When I was done visiting I still had to go back to my office to finish up some things before I went home. I ended up not leaving the office until after 6:30.

I didn’t do anything spectacular for dinner. I also called my sister to try and help her fix her computer network at her place. It turns out her network was fine but my brother in law needed help setting up some Apple Airport Express points. I never have done that before so I couldn’t really help them over the phone. We ended up talking for a while, but she had to go because my nephew isn’t sleeping through the night so she had to get to bed early to get some sleep before he woke up later. They think he is having an issue with an ear infection so he is having trouble sleeping. I feel so bad for the little guy!

Getting to work was interesting today. The 7 train had some issue so even though it takes me less than 15 minutes to get to work, it took me over 40 minutes today. I love waiting for 10+ minutes for a train and then the announcement comes over the PA that says the next train is 4 stations away. Then it shows up and you cannot get on it because it is packed. Then another 5+ minutes go by before another train comes by. This one is almost as packed and people don’t seem to want to move to the middle of the car. That was my commute this morning. Thankfully on the second train a few of us were able to squeeze into the train. I had my drama for the day before 9:30!

Today seemed like a normal day at work. It was one of those days where you don’t think you did any work, but the next thing you know the day is over and you have been busy the entire day. For me I was busy with meetings in the morning with one of the guys on my team. Then I meet with my boss about some planning. Then I grabbed lunch since I forgot to bring breakfast in, so I was hungry for the kindergarden lunch (inside joke that Jayson came up with). I then got through some emails and other misc work, and had another meeting that took more than twice as long as I thought so the next thing I knew the day was over.

Thankfully it wasn’t as hot in my office as it was on Tuesday. I got home at a reasonable hour. I ordered dinner in, and did some work on the computer. A package I that was supposed to show up today doesn’t look like it will make it, so I have to wait another day.

My day at work basically boiled down to me taking part in a meeting with Cisco for most of the morning. The second half of the day was me writing up a proposal for a project we are looking to do. There was a few other quick conference calls in between that. I also think I discussed a network project with some guys on my team. This was one of those days that a few items took up almost all my time. That is good because time goes by quick, but bad because most other items on the agenda are not taken care of.

I did get to kick off some windows updates on my desktop that I am rebuilding. At an old company I worked for we called that an updateathon. It wasn’t so bad but there were allot of Office 2007 updates. I also plugged in a 5 port switch I brought from home yesterday to use in my office. It replaces the 8 port 100meg hub I had received from my group when I asked for a switch. it is weird when I have to bring in better gear from home to work, but this is now the second job I have had that sometimes I need to. On the plus side I do have a sweet ultra portable Sony.

Apparently my cleaning lady (yes I pay to have my apt cleaned every few weeks) was working in my apartment when the maintenance people came over to fix a leak in my bathroom. They sort of freaked her out. Apparently they weren’t very nice, she doesn’t speak english and I didn’t realize she would be around when I put the request in 3 days ago for them to come over and fix the issue without calling ahead. My dad called me a little while ago to tell me about that whole saga. Apparently my cleaning lady called my parents since she knows my mom. She wasn’t home so I get the story from my dad. Lots of drama, but thankfully everyone is ok now.

I didn’t get out of the office too late. I did do something stupid at home though. I thought tonight was the night for a BBQ in my building. Turns out that is next Tuesday. I can’t read. Oh well. I am now relaxing, writing and listening to some music.