Incoherent Babble

Well, let’s see. I got up this morning, actually on time (perhaps a little before). Somehow I still only left at about 7:45, which isn’t that much earlier than normal. I got to work about 8:05, which is actually pretty damn good for me. It still amazes me that our boss (the President of the company) always seems to notice when we’re late, even though he’s never really around, but never seems to notice how much the parking lot fills up after 9:00.

Anyway, I checked my mail and did general Monday morning cleanup from over the weekend. With the new filters I setup on my mailbox last week, I only had about 3 pieces of new mail in my Inbox, all but one of which I was able to dump into an appropriate subfolder, which I was able to safely ignore for another few days.

I don’t think I did a single thing work related today at work, except for cleaning out the virus quarantine on our Exchange server (that took all of 2 minutes), and then re-install Adobe Acrobat 5 (yeah, we’re still 2 whole versions behind) on one of the users’ machines. All the rest of my time I spent working on code for the new website I’m writing for my latest “customer”. It would have only taken about half the time it did, if I’d actually sat back and thought and planned out everything I needed it to do. I got 3/4 of the way done, after writing the bulk of the code, and realized there was a certain condition where everything had to loop back and start over, as many times as necessary, so I had to rewrite everything so it could friggin’ loop.

Anyway, that was about it. Matt and I went to Baileys for lunch. We had some great fun playing pool (I actually won a game!!), but the service was unusually horrible. It took 15 minutes to even get a freaking menu, and then another 10 to order, and who knows how long to actually get our food. Needless to say, our waitress was tipped unusually poorly (we’re generally very very good tippers).

I went back to work and worked on my own code until about 4:30 when my boss grabbed me with some new info on our T1 line. We went traipsing around for about 10 minutes, me trying to explain to him why it wasn’t working. I haven’t taken any Cisco classes to be sure, but I do have a basic understanding of routing in general, I think. I even know how to make basic changes on a Cisco router, just enough to be dangerous (ain’t that a scary thought?).

You know what bothers me even more than knowing just enough to be dangerous with Cisco stuff? The fact that I just said “ain’t”. I don’t think I’ve ever EVER said that before. Yikes… These southerners are getting to me!

I’ve also been reading the rest of the blog I mentioned a post (or maybe two?) ago, 99 Zeroes [Bloglines.com], about life working for Google. The thing that really hit me was the open bar at their Marketing conference. I’m thinking our Marketing department might actually get something constructive done if they were constantly drunk. Not to mention I might not dread going to work every day, which is odd, because last night I actually found myself feeling ready to go to work. Could it be I’m slowly adjusting to my life as a corporate clone? Ah well, that’s a blog entry for another day…

I got home and my mom gave me a cool pen she got from one of our clients (suppliers?) at work. I wonder when I’ll get a present from our contact at Medco. I’ve certainly dealt with them enough lately. Anyway, I think that’s about enough for tonight. It’s time to log in and look at something school-related so I don’t get any more behind. Ugh…