Month: June 2004

So the previously mentioned San Francisco trip begins this weekend on Saturday evening, and carries through to early Friday morning.
Due to the realities of the new job, and the sudden change of my WWDC status, I will be unable to see most everyone who had hoped to see me this trip. I honestly just don’t have the free time to do anything; I barely have any time to go sightseeing with Katie.
So my apologies to all, and I’m sure I will make it back out there at some point in the future.

If you’re like me, and remember all good advertisements you’ve ever seen, there were a series of car ads last year – I believe they were Nissan – which featured a car full of people gazing at incredible sights outside the car, and they pass a sign that says something like “NOW LEAVING: CHILDHOOD” or whatever.
I went whizzing by one of those signs today.
I had to choose a retirement plan.
Sometimes I feel like being wispy
And once in a while I feel like being dry
But we’re doomed and we’re drowned by this feeling we surround
So I hope that I get old before I die
Ohhhhh
It’s a long, long rope they use to hang you soon I hope
And I wonder why this hasn’t happened
Why why why
And I think about the dirt that I’ll be wearing for a shirt
And I hope that I get old before I die
Clear off the kitchen table darling
For on the kitchen table I must lie
I’m just tired for my wife just served the banquet of my life
And I hope that I get old before I die
Ohhhhh
It’s a long, long rope they use to hang you soon I hope
And I wonder why this hasn’t happened
Why why why
And I think about the dirt that I’ll be wearing for a shirt
And I hope that I get old before I die

A lot of people have been asking how my first day at the new job went. I hereby give you a list, to deflect all IM comments!

• It was, on the whole, good.
• I filled out the HR paperwork in record time.
• I have the absolute worst ID badge picture ever. I have red eye that is more noticable in one eye than the other, and the look on my face says “I would like to kill you for looking at my badge”. I guess I look like a killer robot. This may not be such a bad thing, in hindsight.
• My cubicle is currently comedic, as I have a giant Dell tower (for the streaming software evaluation I’m doing), an IBM all-in-one just for kicks, a TiBook of some sort (belongs to one of my co-workers), and a dual 2 GHz G5 tower. And this is not the largest cubical in the world.
• The software I’m evaluating is quite nice, although there’s some kinks we’re still working out.

That’s all I’ve got for now.