Robin Etc

Well, the move went pretty well. We got settled in at Lauren’s parents’ place. There was a lot of carrying of furniture, and we don’t have everything, but we have enough that it is our new primary place of lodging. We can grab the rest at our leisure.

robin Lauren, Robin

Well, I just finished four hours of programming, working on a front-end that demonstrates the library for accessing the hardware FMS that I have written. I am giving a demo of it on Tuesday, and I really wanted to make sure it would be up to snuff. My supervisor said that the fact that I had anything at all was excellent for this early on, but I want more. I’m showing this off to my supervisor, my project team lead (my boss), and the department head (!). I want it to be slick. So, I’ve written a small document which I’m going to hand out, and I got my program where I want it to be.

The sucky part is that, when I went to record my time, it turns out that time on a Sunday goes toward the previous week. I had figured that I would have 4 less hours of work this week, but not so. Instead, I merely have 44 for last week. Blast.

robin Programming, Robin, Work

I’ve started reading Gödel, Escher, Bach again. I never managed to get more than 2/3 of the way through it before. Not that I dislike it or find it boring, other stuff has simply cropped up. I’m going to bring it with me to work, for entertainment purposes.

I left early today, after putting in only 7 hours, because I needed a break. I put in 2 more this evening, so I’m still coming out ahead. But I figure maybe if I bring GEB with me to work, I can veg out reading it when I need a break. Otherwise, there’s absolutely nothing to do. I am not willing, for example, to go on IRC or randomly browse the web on my work machine. I have, so far, been able to keep it used for exclusively work related purposes.

Anyways, I want to finish this book some time. I understand a lot of it already, and it’s a pretty awesome subject. But the rant on the incompleteness theorem must come another day.

robin Robin, Work

Well, I made an abrupt exit from a party where, had I stayed longer, I would have been able to see some people that I haven’t seen in ages. That’s too bad. But somebody started using drugs, and I got out of there ASAP. I want no part of that.

Luckily, redpapermoon got a migraine on the way home. It’s not lucky that she got the migraine, but it was definitely lucky that we were already on the way home before it blew up.

I’ll check in with my old friends some other day.

robin Robin

I had blueberry pancakes for breakfast today. The cafeteria at my employer is the bomb.

robin Rants, Work

Well, I spent all day programming. Well, I guess not technically all day. I spent my first hour on the phone with tech support concerning an automatic software security update system that fails to recognize that my version of Visual Studio (2003) isn’t affected by a particular vulnerability in VS 2005. More amusingly, the patch for the version that -is- vulnerable won’t install on my older version. Eventually it was determined that my options are either:

1) Upgrade VS to a recent, affected, version, and apply the patch it keeps trying to push on me.

2) Wait for tech support to escalate the issue to the IT illuminati to fix their update software.

I’ll probably end up waiting for IT to get their act together, because there’s really no way I can justify spending the money on the new version of VS.

Anyways, after spending an hour on the phone with support, I spent the next 8 hours programming. I got some things started, which is good. I have a stub written for a particular plugin, and I have started a separate project on which I can develop an interface to some VB code that I am also writing, which I will eventually port back into the main application.

robin Robin, Work