Settling

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I’m beginning the process of settling into my new job. I’m starting to get the hang of the flow and learn names. I’m learning about the people I’ll be working with closely and they’re not scary at all. Almost all of them mutter and talk to themselves while staring at the computer screen like I do. They work hard, but they also laugh pretty easy.

I’m busy with class and the job and don’t see myself having as much time to put together posts. Rather than not post, I would prefer to post smaller and even less refined.

I still would like to include amusing video game screen shots with every post, but I don’t see that happening. I likely will end up posting just screen shots with captions every so often.

I have been enjoying the thoughts people have been sharing and the discussions that have been happening, and I’d hate to lose that. Thanks to Massif, Tao Cowboy, and SteveJ, this place has been fun and lively as of late. I just want to make certain they, and anyone who posts, knows I enjoy and appreciate you for making this so much more entertaining and rewarding.

  • Glad to be of service.

    Here’s my random thought for the day:

    The Internet: Talking to Strangers is Now Acceptable. (But still don’t accept anything they offer you.)

  • …especially cookies.

  • SteveJ

    Awww…

    I was in a cube farm last year and I always felt bad for the lady that sat between me and another guy. I talk to myself constantly (muttering at work, perfectly normal volume around the house), and he’s usually pretty vocal about how things are going for him. She was so quiet. I would joke with her about it and she didn’t seem to notice, but I don’t know if she was being nice and secretly plotting our demises (always gotta watch the quiet ones).

    I’m thinking about dusting off my crappy blogger acct and posting, but I really don’t have any original thoughts any more. My running list of potential blog topics:

    I talk to myself and I’m only a little crazy
    Robert Jordan is overrated
    Super Smash Brothers is awesome
    The power of yahoo answers
    Who invited all these fire ants anyway?
    And a dumping ground for random coding tricks I’ll frantically search for in 3 years.

    I probably wouldn’t read that crap :)

    I’m told if you want to be taken seriously as a senior dev, you need to do a programming blog. I haven’t seen one that mixes code and random life events, so would I have to do two? Sheeesh!

    Anyway, I think you’re an entertaining hostess, so I’ll stick around to see what’s next.

  • The Cowboy

    I was just taking Rory’s advice that if you want Microsoft to notice you, throw up a blog and cuss a lot. Didn’t get me the job, but they actually talked to me, so I suppose it sortof worked.

    I hate to see you scale back, but I understand the need. I’m not really sure how I fit it in myself, but that might have something to do with the fact that I only seem to get four hours of sleep per night. Speaking of… G’Night.

  • “..throw up a blog and cuss a lot.”

    You forgot the part where you confess disturbing things about your history. You said that you were in a cult, right? That was you, right? And even if it wasn’t, it would be a good back story. Talk more about that on your blog, then everyone will want to talk to and hire you.

    “I hate to see you scale back”

    Aww.. I feel warm and fuzzy. I will try to steal rogue bits of time. The posts themselves may be shorter, but if I do enough, maybe they’ll equal one big post.

  • “(always gotta watch the quiet ones)”

    I’m on day four, and I’m quickly breaking out of that shell. I made the comment today that I think we all have terrets over on the coding side.

    …not so much the designers, which is weird because I am an artist and have a BFA. I guess I identify with coders more.

    “Robert Jordan is overrated”

    Agreed.

    “Super Smash Brothers is awesome”

    Indeed.

    “I’m told if you want to be taken seriously as a senior dev, you need to do a programming blog”

    I’m told to be taken seriously you must be careful about what you say on said techie blog. Rory proves all them wrong.

    “I haven’t seen one that mixes code and random life events,”

    I’ve seen few tech to personal blogs, but I think we’ve started a little community of them. To be strait code tricks one post, and philosophical brain wandering the next would be interesting. I have been thinking of posting more geeky stuff even more since I got this job. Personally, the ones I read the most are interesting because they mix information with human experience.

    I would read that blog. Give it a go. :) It’s always more interesting to other people than it is yourself.

    “I think you’re an entertaining hostess”

    Super warm and fuzzy…

  • It’s spelled tourettes, I’m sure it is. (That is assuming you’re talking about the syndrome which causes involuntary compulsions to say/do inappropriate things – though most often it just causes muscle ticks.)

    My spell checker is disagreeing with me. But fortunately the internet is taking my side.

    I generally make a point of mortally offending someone during week one, it helps to know who your enemies are going to be. Otherwise you can be there years and suddenly discover that someone you’ve talked to twice is quietly plotting your untimely demise.

  • “It’s spelled tourettes, I’m sure it is.”

    The internet also believes that it’s spelled the other way too. Weird. Fickle, fickle net…

    “I generally make a point of mortally offending someone during week one”

    I can usually manage that with just being me, but everyone seems very chill here. I also kinda don’t want to do that since ‘officially’ I’m not really real until after a month so they can test me out and return me to the manufacturer if I break… I like this place a lot already, so I really hope they don’t exchange me. Maybe they’ll misplace the receipt…