Bad news, my dad was bleeding internally yesterday and was taken to the hospital. They found the source of the bleeding and cauterized it. He is in ICU now. He is expected to recover, but there are three units of blood standing by in case he starts bleeding again. I am not sure if I will go up and see him. I definitely wil do so soon, but not sure when. I *do* know that I will be donating blood very soon.
Friday: Out to lunch with space_parasite, aelfsciene, eldrikmt, gregbo, and some other folks, to honor Trip’s last day at AV. (I’m thinking “celebrate” is not the right word.) Trip will be missed. Please join me to wish him luck in his future (especially in finding work as a unix spud soon!) After a bit, we left for bowling and pizza, to honor last days for a couple other folks. Bruce made it but Angie and Trip didn’t. There was much bowling and beer and doofy prizes. ...
I joined www.orkut.com. It’s another one of those “friend of a friend” services. However, I don’t feel inclined to feed it all the names and email addresses of all my friends. Whether or not I trust their privacy policy, I have a strict personal privacy policy as well :) So. If you feel inclined to check out orkut.com, you can find me and mark me as a friend. Are there any other “friend network” type of services that you use and like?
Happy Birthday Bryant!
I went to Yahoo! HQ again today, affectionately known as “the collective”. I will probably go again tomorrow. I insinuated myself in a few meetings and met some people. Here I will attempt to catalog the current list of leads I am working on. Nam Nguyen: This guy just bubbled up to the top of my list. Based on my conversation with him Thursday, and after seeing him for a mostly-unrelated conversation today, he put together an actual job description. This is very interesting and pleasing to me, because he wrote up the job description *after* talking to me, and showed it to me first before submitting the request for a req/headcount. Hopefully management approves and budget is there. I gave him three things to add in that would make it even more tailored to my qualifications, but as written it is pretty compelling. ...
Posted another friends-only entry regarding job search. If you don’t see it, make sure you are logged in, or contact me… gregc
Smug me. Another 4 trays of jerky is in the dehydrator. The slicer works MUCH better on frozen meat. Slower, but much better slices. That is all.
Wow, if I were not tired, I would be smug. Did a lot of crap this weekend. Friday: Trader Joes, purchased snacks. Rite Aid, get soda. Home, drop off soda. Gaming at Merlin’s. Game happened to be quite cleric-centered but I managed to not monopolize the session, I think. Saturday: Installed Paperport and didn’t scan anything. Spent a long time playing around with Windows Users and Groups - created a Roaming Profile and Home Directory on the Samba server. Found out that this makes the account take like 8-10 minutes to log in, because it has to copy all your preferences and shit every time you log in or log out. Backed out of that crap. Stripped the futon and sprayed Nature’s Miracle on it in four places. Leave it out to dry. Washed 4 loads of laundry. Went to get take out for dinner. Folded clothes, watched TV. Put a load of dishes in the washer, mostly pots/pans. Unpacked the new electric food slicer. Sliced some salami with it. Took 4 bags of pissed-on bedding into the bathroom. Went over each with black light, and sprayed each with Nature’s Miracle. This took about 4 hours and consumed an entire gallon of Nature’s Miracle. Bed not dry yet. Covered up wet spots with plastic bags and made the bed, slept in it. Sunday: Took a shower. Played on the computer for a while, viewing bills and statements and “printing” them into PDF using Paperport. Sliced the steak with the electric slicer. Slices came out funny because the blade keeps pulling the meat down, but if you flip the steak each time it works OK. Next time I will try it frozen. Cleaned the slicer. This is an operation in itself, and took about as long as slicing the meat. Went over each piece and the base unit with soapy water, plain water, then plain water with a shot of bleach. Take that, microbes! Took the well-sprayed bedding to the coin laundry. Did another 5 loads of bedding and 2 loads of clothes and towels. Met D and C for dinner at Chili’s. Then to Bed Bath and a Handbasket. Then to Barnes and Noble. Then home. Not done yet! Took slices of meat marinading in soy sauce and set them out to be dried. Filled up 4 trays of the food dehydrator. (Making jerky, though you probably figured that out by now, you’re clever folk.) Sprinkled on black pepper and garlic powder. Looked around for futon cover. Realized that I probably left that at the coin laundry in the dryer. sh!t Typed up this entry. Now it is time to make the bed (again!)
I had some meetings at Yahoo HQ today, so I took advantage of the opportunity to scope out the place and touch bases with some people. Official meetings were as follows: Ops-swat. NY suite is closed, walkthrough completed, suite turned over, done deal. Not much else to report. BSD qa install. Touched bases with East who is in Y site ops, he will install kernel on qapicrawl machine. Gladiator QA. Erik, Cameron, Linda are tracking it, nothing really for me to do. Babel & Shortcuts brain dump. I gave Y Site Ops the operational highlights (not much) and I will send links to our docs. Not much dramatic there. Their team seems to be a lot like ours. ...
I posted a friends-only entry just now about the job search. If you can’t see it and want to, let me know and I’ll friend you (or if you’re not an LJ user, I can send it to you). Now, please enjoy the picture of a moose enjoying himself.