Huh. How things rapidly changed after I wrote this post a year ago. A month after this, myself and twenty others in the IT dept were given four weeks notice that we were to be laid off at the end of July; the VP mentioned below (Sanjaye) was subsequently arrested for child abuse (teenage daughter/step […]
Career
Don’t you hate this when it happens?
Get home, unload the backpack/briefcase of some personal papers and iPad, and then notice no work laptop. Ninety nine percent sure it’s still on my desk at work, but that nagging one percent says, it fell out of the backpack between the office to the bus, or getting off the bus. I would expect someone […]
Releasing new software once again at zero dark thirty
Up at 4:45 am to do a software application release/install, with a colleague. Fortunately, this can be accomplished at home. install went fine without any issues. Our testers/validators are scheduled to start testing at 7. Will have to wait until 8 for them to finish with that before (maybe) heading back to bed for a […]
Getting up early for work
It is “dark zero thirty” here on the bus, at 6:45 am. Senior management has scheduled a day long Demo session (by the vendor), starting at 8am, of the new application(s) we’ll be using in the near future. I do not like getting up at 6am, that is a perfectly good waste of precious REM […]
Random thoughts, state fair booksale, ServiceNow
Facebook asks, “What’s on your mind”, at 5:30am this morning? Insomnia – maybe. Acid reflux – nope, not this “morning”. Tinnitus – definitely a yep. Take your pick. My pal Rick went to the State Fair Grounds yesterday for “Half Price Books” book sale. All books were $2 or less. He picked up twelve books […]