You may hate me now.

[da]

I can't wait to go in to work tomorrow. The stuff I'm working on is awesome. On Thursday I met with $boss for our second weekly meeting, which made me quite happy. He asked excellent questions, and we determined that my original task was actually subsidiary to a bigger task, which might make things much easier- and lo, I'm seeing about rewriting our (much maligned) inventory front-end. Rubber, meet road! I just need to get myself a decent PHP book, because I'm tired of learning PHP by experimentation. (Is there a standard dead-tree book everyone uses? Just curious.)

And on Friday, I spent a good chunk of the day essentially exit-interviewing a staff member who has been using this same inventory system for the last many years; I didn't expect our discussion to take two hours, but he had that many suggestions about things that would make the job easier (in the end, he suggested I might be automating him out of a job, which I had been thinking was the case, but that's not out of line what the facility wants to do as well). I spent some time transcribing notes and prioritizing changes, all 95 of them. Look at me! I'm a requirements engineer!

Dinner tonight was lobster, cooked by melted_snowball for his mom and for me. It was so good. And dawn_guy and catbear brought by a sugar pie that was so sweet I think I'm still on a sugar high. Hope I can sleep tonight. ;)

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[dawn-guy.livejournal.com]

MAKES:10 Servings.
This version of butter tarts (a Canadian speciality) is easier to prepare than the traditional individual tarts. It is very rich and best served in small pieces.

Consider the minions of the evil empire willing to put in effort to help your back end join the collective. If you need clarification on anything or an API change, it can be done. Heck, with a guarantee of your users being authenticated and data checked for errors, I could give you your own side door into our database.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

"best served in small pieces."

They've got that right.

Things have gotten a bit more interesting around here. The dark side has had a bit of a coup, a new manager of telecommunications services... who also holds title as my boss, at least for the next three weeks.

[dawn-guy.livejournal.com]

I'd figured J would be the man if the powers decided they really wanted an internal candidate. It makes life more interesting over here, too, as it opens a door in somebody's glass ceiling and might push some deadlines around.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

I bet lots of things move around when you put a door in a ceiling. (Which is linked in my head to an ad for running shoes, though their ad failed in that I wouldn't be able to tell you what brand until I re-watched it).