Ahhh, so you may have noticed that I haven't written much here lately eh? Been busy ... the biggest pain in the ass at EnterAct has been the whole moving thing, compounded with disorganization over administrative priorities and getting equipment together.
But the moving is done now. Got my own folding table, machine, windows view, chair, and phone. Whee! We've got our own admin room where we all very much enjoyed ourselves today.
And I've got a negotiated salary, and health benefits and all, and my perks all sorted out - given the salary I'm now working at, and the likelihood that it will still go up considerably, there is very much reason to believe I shant be returning to school anytime soon.
I'll need to order that ISDN line soon.
The Admin team is a cool group - Kevin is something of our fearless leader and a master of FreeBSD, Blake knows telco stuff and has what could most politely be described as an intriguingly strong personality, Eric speaks French, and will be working full-time this summer, and part-time when school starts back up, and just yesterday, we acquired Paul - a friend of Blake who apparently knows FreeBSD well enough, but I don't know much else about him. He's taking a vacation in Florida this weekend.
I've been working, for lack of anything more being demanded on me, of the interesting puzzle of rewriting some of the tools used by the techs to do user stuff like add users and change user names - the stuff we're currently running stands a considerable bit of improvement.
But enough about work ...
Wed Jun 10 20:01:10 CDT 1998
Last weekend, Sean, a friend from High School, threw a dinner party. I got to see Karen and Ted, and drink most of Ted's beer, as I was low on cash and he was dealing with a liver infection. I got quite inebriated and Karen was sweet enough to drive me home. On Saturday morning we then headed out to Iowa, for a family reunion.
The reunion was somewhat smaller and less stunning than in previous years. A desire to get back to work balanced out with a desire to hang out with the family that was there and just generally enjoy the weekend. Tuesday saw a lot of chaos with moving our part of the company to the new office, but today saw an almost holiday-like mood, as we admins got to cozy up in our new office, receiving badly-needed office equipment and bubbling like a bunch of young guys on an overnight geek-fest sort of affair.
I expect tomorrow we'll get hunkering down more towards work, and by Friday we all expect, I think, to have had a most impressive and overdue meeting to kinda sort things out, given our team has some growing pains and whatnot, partly because it's just expanded to about twice its previous size, and has much to get done.
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