I had my days mixed up last week. All day Tuesday, I thought it was Wednesday. All day Wednesday, I thought it was Thursday. Needless to say, my meeting was supposed to be Thursday night and Friday was my first day of work. Good thing, too. I got a free day out of the deal. Also, now that I have a 9-5, Monday to Friday job, I might even be able to keep track of what day of the week it is!
I got a job. I start tomorrow. Network and Systems administration for a small software development shop. Sound familiar anyone? Funny enough, much like my interview with my previous employer, I was welcomed to the interview for this job by a big dog. I like that.
In other related, but less humble news, I have actually worked a couple of days for these people already. They brought me in for a 2 day trial. There was another fellow due to come in for 2 days after me, but once I'd been there for a day and a half, they called the other guy and told him not to bother coming in. The position has been filled. Woah.
Anyway, I have a web design contract I have to round out for a client by 7 this eve, so I think I should step off and be productive.
It was pretty interesting, and
covered a wide range of topics, since they had to cover the core First
Aid topics as well as the more small-person-specific stuff. It seemed
to boil down to a couple of simple steps to follow for pretty much any
sort of emergency. First, make sure it's safe. Second, send someone
for medical help (911). Third, make sure they're breathing. Fourth,
make sure they're not bleeding. The instructor had a lot of good
stories, and seemed to know her stuff fairly well, which made it
easier to learn from her, I think. And I am very glad that I learned
the stuff, even though I hope I'll never have to use it.
she didn't phrase it quite that way, but I like to
think I've got a certain gift for re-interpretation.) I
convinced her that I have the willpower to change my lifestyle,
and she agreed that I could try that for a few months and see if
it made a difference. Well, my lifestyle has changed. I now get
out to the gym three or four days a week, and my salt intake has
dropped from its previous high level to something quite low, but
I'm not sure if my blood pressure has gone down any. (I took it
after my last round of exercising and it was 128/92, which is
just over the high end of normal) It doesn't make things any
better that I'm starting to stress about the appointment
tomorrow, which is sure to drive it up. Well, I guess the only
thing to do is go and get it done tomorrow, and live with the
consequences. I guess my biggest concern now is whether I'll
continue to live this new, healthier lifestyle if it's not making
any difference to my health.
is on the virge of getting a bunch of new work,
which means that I might be back on client development. But not
quite yet, since there is a bunch of framework-ish stuff that I
can do before that. A couple of new games, with the necessary
changes to the base stuff to support them in as simple a way as
possible. But before any of that, I get to make our demo project
compile. That was a bigger pain than I thought it would be,
since we renamed it from "PhantomGaming" to "PgCasino",
necessating wide-sweeping changes in many source files, as well
as different settings in the project files. But it compiles now,
so in theory, on Monday, I can start implementing the new games.
Should be fun.
