blog (January, 2004)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
I had the extendo-weekend in San Francisco to consider the offer. Yesterday morning I signed contract to become a full-time, salaried employee of Cleveland Med1cal Dev1ces, (name changed to avert googling,) as Software Engineer/Network Administrator.
Welcome to the machine.
attempt to redefine my daily guidelines
read, write, sit, shout, sing, and push
These are my new expectations for each day. I won't tell you what they all mean, but the first two are pretty obvious. Running isn't included; it's more than expected.
I've failed in most of those today, though. It's past 1am and I haven't yet left work. I've been here since before 10am.
I've actually been feeling better about things lately. I've had a few less stresses at work which'as allowed me to get a thing or two done. I've been building a company web-based intranet with Apache, Perl, MovableType, php and Smarty. MySQL will be the next friend to come play along, but the tools aren't really that important. I've got to begin doing some reading on intranets in collaboration & knowledge-management. I really want to be creative with this, but ultimately, I can't let usefulness out of sight.
a case of the mondays
My workworld is spinning. Administering a Windows computer network is something like raking a cheese-grater back and forth across your face. I'm becoming more and more proficient, but it just hurts more. I'm constantly talking about trying to make the infrastructure here more efficient and self-administering, but every time I try to concentrate on one task, ten others present themselves.
Today has been virus/worm/trojan/etc day. That's not a hell of an exciting day, but I chalk it up, as usual, to teaching me a bit more, and forcing me to button down the systems here further. We have a long way to go though; I refuse to let things teeter constantly on the edge of disaster. Well, maybe disaster is an exaggeration. Right now the status bar is yellow and half-full at "bothersome and prohibitively time-consuming." Got to get back to green.
MyCoy Tyner's Enlightenment is knocking down doors through my headphones and into my brain.