life and hardware and work
Well! What a week it’s been in Versoland! Week and change, really, when you get down to it.
I had someone start at work on my team, so he’s my responsibility to train and such. He’s very nice and used to work at my local Mac joint (the one I prefer, that is) and yes he’s a “friend of mine” so that helps too. It was hectic at first getting him started, but he seems to be up to speed so I’m glad he’s picking things up. He’s a good friend of Sushimo, one of my other cow-orkers so it’s nice to have friends. For once I feel like the cool kid at work, and it’s kind of weird but fun. Now I have lunch dates! It was a long long time before I had a lunch date before and now I have them often so it’s a very welcome change.
Of course we have a new hire because we had to let someone go and that fracking sucked. I hated doing it, but when someone is looked in the eye and told “if you do this again we WILL let you go” and then does it again, I mean, what am I supposed to do? I wasn’t the person who actually said the words, but the day before it went down I had to tell him we have to figure out what happens from here and he knew at that point, so I might as well have said it. It made for a long long night, let me tell you! I went from “this sucks and I don’t want to do it and I feel bad” to “dammit why did they put me in this position in the first place, I’m glad to be rid of them if this is how they really are!” and then back around again. It sucked the MOST. So at least it’s over. (more or less anyway, I heard that apparently this person was pretty tired of being at Initech anyway, which just super chapped me-if you didn’t want to be there you could have quit you know. grr!)
Then I had Management Training for two Wednesdays, and that was cool, I think I got a good amount of useful stuff out of it as a recently minted supervisory type (I prefer the term miniboss) so we’ll see how it goes from here on. I think I’m doing a good job. My boss says I do and since there have been no revolts in my aisle I take those as good signs. So yay me.
I found out that I got the thing I talked about before, I have a freelance gig for a Mac magazine and it is ALL because of my friend Digital Droo. He used to write a column and didn’t want to do it anymore but knew I was desperate to get my foot in the door so he sent me an email and I wrote him a quick piece to send off and after I nearly died from the wait he told me that I got it. ME! I finally have a big-girl writing gig. My name in print. I know the Web is the future and all of that, and I love the space I’ve carved out on the internets, but I grew up pre-Net, and magazines were all I had, so it’s a big deal to me to get to do this. I can not tell you how pleased I am. I want all of you to go buy a Freeverse game or his CD or something, anything, and be sure to start buying Mac|Life (used to be MacAddict) with the June issue. (:
I have to do some serious decisonmaking in the very near future. I need to figure out if I’m going to C4 or not, the Star Wars Celebration in LA in May. I want to go SO VERY badly but I don’t want to go alone, and I have a hunch I will, and I don’t want to be alone but I don’t want to not go, I’m so conflicted. Who wants to take a trip with me? I’ll throw in some time at Disneyland too if you want. Please?
I also got SUPER sick this week, Wednesday night I went to karaoke, drank nothing weird, came home, nodded off on the couch, woke up and went to bed at like 2:30 and then at 4:30 the bazooka-barfing started, and it didn’t stop until Thursday morning. My abs got a thorough workout and my pants fit better, but seriously I would rather go to the gym than barf up things I ate as a child. It was a bad scene, but I’m doing better now, it was weird to be so weak! I think I had some wicked flu or something, I had zero temperature control over my body, my head throbbed, I was all achy and weak, and I couldn’t go anywhere. It was weird! I feel ok today though, I stayed home and The Scoot took me to Pho Van for dinner and I swear whatever is wrong with you, the large #6 will make it better. mmm.
Friday night we went to Costco and bought a new TV. it’s a 37″ LCD that is living in the front room until we get the real TV for the front room, then this one will be the bedroom tv. There is more debate and rewiring in my future, since we might need a new HD antenna and the super fantastic dvd player doesn’t show up until Monday. But we were watching some Pixar and a little Pirates 2 and boy howdy does it look nice. It definitely feels like an upgrade in the living room, I can’t imagine what it will feel like when we move it to the bedroom and go from a 19″ to a 37. And Lego Star Wars looks pretty good on it too!
Also in hardware news we got a new NAS to hang on the network instead of all this file server nonsense. I don’t understand it that well and I don’t quite get how it works so I’m a little frustrated since it’s slower for me by FAR than it is for the Scoot. I’ll have to brush up on network protocols again to sort this out. Joy. Why can’t my house just see the light and get a Mac so we can all get on with our lives? HMM???
In other hardware news, I get a new MacBook Pro at work, instead of updating my G4 tower to a Mac Pro tower, I am getting a laptop since I have some work presenting and travel and such that I will be doing in the future. I am SO excited! I hope I don’t jinx anything by saying that I really feel like I lucked out when Initech hired me and I could see being there a really long time. I work for a super fantastic company and I appreciate that they are way cooler than a lot of places so I think that works in my favor. I’m also getting a new monitor in the nick of time, the Apple one on my desk has gotten almost as unstable as Britney Spears lately.
I think that is it for now, since it’s like 1:30 and I really should be getting snuggled right now instead of typing. I hope this update has enlightened you. If you want to know what I’m doing 140 characters at a time, go check me out on Twitter and you can see my little teeny updates. In the meantime, send some pr0n (Ambassador?) or some treats or something towards my man Digital Droo, he has helped me take the first step in all my grandiose resolutions for this year. I know a quarter of it is gone now (jebus!) but I have reasonable goals and I think I’m on a hot streak. (: