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Socks on, rocks off

Sorry again, I kinda disappeared for a bit when I got my new job. I’m back and will be adding a bunch more posts in a bit, stick around.

3 days now. I had to interview a few people for my position today. They looked pretty good on paper and I wasn’t sure at first how to interview them, but as we sat down and started talking, I started focusing on my final projects and where the IT group was going, and let me tell you, wow! After getting a glimpse of the stock of Unix admins out there, I’m pretty confident in my current skill set. Some of the questions I asked, I thought were mundane and blindingly simple, but it turns out they were stumped. Now granted, there is a lot of stress being on the interviewee side, it’s hard to think clearly at times when sitting in the hot seat, and there are a number of people that just don’t test well. In the end, we eventually decided to go with a Unix contracting agency for a bit and see how that turns out.

I put in my order for my PowerBook this morning and it is due by Thursday (WOOT!) doing the happy dance

So the countdown starts, 4 days left until I leave OpenTV and move on to Idetic. I’ve started the long haul of dumping my brain into a ream of electronic bits and bytes for the sake of our department. I’m hoping to wrap up a few projects and squeeze all I can into the Knowledge base as quickly as possible, all while fitting in “goodbye lunches” & “fond farewells”.

Tonight, Alicia, Toby, and I all dropped by Jack London for some ice cream and “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”. The movie was fun to watch, though I couldn’t help expecting the old cast from the TV show. I did spot the “old” Marvin robot in the move 🙂 and I just read that they plan on completing the series. Looking forward to it.

Today I had my court hearing for my speeding ticket I got back in Feb. At the time I was heading over to Kristens for an all day limo ride through Napa. I was running a bit late and was a bit excited, which is why I think I was doing 38 in the 25 mph zone, as the cop pulled me over. Now realize, I had just pulled out of my driveway and had just accelerated up and was laying off the gas to drop down to the regular speed when I noticed the flashy lights behind me. I was pulled over 2 blocks from my house. The officer checked my paperwork and gave me a ticket but mentioned, since I had no priors, that I just needed to show up in court and he would have it dropped down to a lesser infraction.

Well I showed up today and he was nowhere in sight and had not noted anything on my docket. So now, I have to pay $143 and goto traffic school. I guess 1 ticket in 12 years isn’t bad. I paid the fine and am now looking where to sign up for school.

As I left work today, I found that a fire had started in the “Royal Exchange” outside my work. About 4-5 fire trucks were on the scene, hoses hooked up to hydrants, men going into smoke filled doorway, the works.

Once I get the Gallery setup I’ll start posting up pictures again.

The ups:

• Being considered to run an IT department
• Going to Vegas
• Going to Australia
• Going to buy a Mac Powerbook

And the downs:

• Feeling Lonely
• Need to visit the dentist
• Might have to cancel/reschedule Thailand
• Need to catch up in my System Administration II class