Sunday, September 25, 2005
Sleep, New Jobs & Phones
So I've been trying to find time to write about a few things for more than a week now. I guess it really doesn't take all that much time I just seem to get sidetracked. I've been on a horrible sleeping schedule for the last month. Mostly I have taken to vampire ways and been up through the night. I found it more convenient to get up in the early evening and code for 4-5 hours, then go play poker until 6 A.M. then I could get home and do some more work while Dawson's Creek is on TBS, then I can pass out while the rest of the daily hustle and bustle happens in the real world.
Tonight I am forcing myself to kick that around as I have to be up during the day tomorrow. An opportunity fell into my lap last week, and I am sharing a workspace that is newly setup at my friends house. Aaron seems excited about it as well. I've worked with him for years now on and off, and we have a whole work area setup. It basically came down to people need work done, I can do work, lets get it set up so I can do work. It's really wonderful when people just make things happen. Within a 12 hour period there were computers, monitors, KVM, switches, network cables, a new desk. I went and picked out my own fancy shmansy chair the other day. It is being delivered tomorrow. I am excited to be doing something new, and especially because it is linux work. Yippee. New jobs are always exciting aren't they?
The L&Y side of things is going quite smoothly. There was a major overhaul of the toolkit. it's funny how programmers are usually thought of as mind readers. "Well it should just be able to ...". Developers normally have a large amount of common sense, and we can usually make an educated guess at how most things _should_ work. When we are misinformed, or not provided with all of the unique information relating to a certain issue then "It's not able to ...". The does not mean it will _never_ be able to. I spent a few days complete taking apart and rebuilding the imaginary lego castle known as the toolkit so as to better fit the company work flows. There are quite a few things left to do still. Aaron and I have had a design discussion regarding the DMS work flow issues. (Actions, rules, and work flows. Work flows for creation, modification and removal). It's going to be suh-wheet! I just need to find the time to actually do it.
To anyone who has tried to phone, or will try to phone me in the next day or so you are out of luck. I had noticed my phone acting strangely a few days ago. Fully charged it would not properly work. The battery is not the problem, the phone just does not seem to connect to the line anymore. Some things wrong, but what can you expect for a $35 phone. After I came into some money early this afternoon I went phone shopping. I realized that I am kind of picky about my phones. You never really think about that ... well how often does one go phone shopping? As it turns out the first three phones that I like were "out of stock". I almost left, but then I noticed something I had not originally intended to look at. I purchased a Uniden dual set of cordless phones. I thought it was cool that I got 2 phones for not even the price of some other phones. Both are 2.4 GHz cordless with their own base. This way I can leave the main phone on the stand, and keep the second phone on my desk right beside me. I tend to forget about putting the phone back onto the charger, so a double dose will cover my bases.
Things are exciting lately. I'm going to get some sleep. I have lots of work to do, and new work to start on (plus I get to hang with that KDE hacker dude more), I have new telephones. Things are going great. I finished writing the side music for Mrs. MacPherson Of Inveran for the CPS Pipe Band. I dropped of copies with Hammy last week ... he gets the jump over everyone else. I think I'm due for a tea time on Tuesday again. See tea is exciting too! ¶ 10:14:00 PM
Tonight I am forcing myself to kick that around as I have to be up during the day tomorrow. An opportunity fell into my lap last week, and I am sharing a workspace that is newly setup at my friends house. Aaron seems excited about it as well. I've worked with him for years now on and off, and we have a whole work area setup. It basically came down to people need work done, I can do work, lets get it set up so I can do work. It's really wonderful when people just make things happen. Within a 12 hour period there were computers, monitors, KVM, switches, network cables, a new desk. I went and picked out my own fancy shmansy chair the other day. It is being delivered tomorrow. I am excited to be doing something new, and especially because it is linux work. Yippee. New jobs are always exciting aren't they?
The L&Y side of things is going quite smoothly. There was a major overhaul of the toolkit. it's funny how programmers are usually thought of as mind readers. "Well it should just be able to ...". Developers normally have a large amount of common sense, and we can usually make an educated guess at how most things _should_ work. When we are misinformed, or not provided with all of the unique information relating to a certain issue then "It's not able to ...". The does not mean it will _never_ be able to. I spent a few days complete taking apart and rebuilding the imaginary lego castle known as the toolkit so as to better fit the company work flows. There are quite a few things left to do still. Aaron and I have had a design discussion regarding the DMS work flow issues. (Actions, rules, and work flows. Work flows for creation, modification and removal). It's going to be suh-wheet! I just need to find the time to actually do it.
To anyone who has tried to phone, or will try to phone me in the next day or so you are out of luck. I had noticed my phone acting strangely a few days ago. Fully charged it would not properly work. The battery is not the problem, the phone just does not seem to connect to the line anymore. Some things wrong, but what can you expect for a $35 phone. After I came into some money early this afternoon I went phone shopping. I realized that I am kind of picky about my phones. You never really think about that ... well how often does one go phone shopping? As it turns out the first three phones that I like were "out of stock". I almost left, but then I noticed something I had not originally intended to look at. I purchased a Uniden dual set of cordless phones. I thought it was cool that I got 2 phones for not even the price of some other phones. Both are 2.4 GHz cordless with their own base. This way I can leave the main phone on the stand, and keep the second phone on my desk right beside me. I tend to forget about putting the phone back onto the charger, so a double dose will cover my bases.
Things are exciting lately. I'm going to get some sleep. I have lots of work to do, and new work to start on (plus I get to hang with that KDE hacker dude more), I have new telephones. Things are going great. I finished writing the side music for Mrs. MacPherson Of Inveran for the CPS Pipe Band. I dropped of copies with Hammy last week ... he gets the jump over everyone else. I think I'm due for a tea time on Tuesday again. See tea is exciting too! ¶ 10:14:00 PM
