Tuesday
I didn't end up watching the debates last night. I just didn't think I could stomach watching The Donald bluster and scowl and point for 90 minutes. Thankfully I have a couple of friends on Facebook who watched it and posted all the good bits. That, and watching a couple of highlight videos on the Washington Post and New York Times and I feel like I got the gist of how it went without the actual stomach ache of having to watch it myself.
I was running a low fever yesterday (99 degrees, but my normal temp tends to be 98.4 instead of 98.6) Today it was up to 99.6, so I took some Advil to try to bring it down and help with the body aches. And I worked from home again. At least I've been able to be pretty productive.
Today I was trying to learn about IRC (Internet Relay Chat) which is an ancient technology (from 1988!) that they're still using at New Job. Because it's programmers, that's why. I'd read the two or three Intranet pages that were recommended on the various New Hire checklists, and they were all written by programmers for programmers (i.e. complete gibberish to a newbie). Then I finally found one for newbies that was somewhat helpful and written in plain English. And did a little bit of Googling and found a couple of blogs. The main thing was figuring out how to configure the client to hide the flood of useless messages (Foo had joined the channel, Foo has changed their name to foo_afk, Foo has changed their name to Foo_Lunch, Foo has quit the channel) so that I can see the actual conversations.
I also did some more New Hire reading. And did a little bit of preliminary research on one of the projects I'm assigned to. Wow, going to take a while before that one makes any sense.
And now, to bed. Hopefully a good night's sleep will help. I really want to go to the Write The Docs meetup tomorrow. My former boss from HAL is going, and I'd like to catch up with him again.
I was running a low fever yesterday (99 degrees, but my normal temp tends to be 98.4 instead of 98.6) Today it was up to 99.6, so I took some Advil to try to bring it down and help with the body aches. And I worked from home again. At least I've been able to be pretty productive.
Today I was trying to learn about IRC (Internet Relay Chat) which is an ancient technology (from 1988!) that they're still using at New Job. Because it's programmers, that's why. I'd read the two or three Intranet pages that were recommended on the various New Hire checklists, and they were all written by programmers for programmers (i.e. complete gibberish to a newbie). Then I finally found one for newbies that was somewhat helpful and written in plain English. And did a little bit of Googling and found a couple of blogs. The main thing was figuring out how to configure the client to hide the flood of useless messages (Foo had joined the channel, Foo has changed their name to foo_afk, Foo has changed their name to Foo_Lunch, Foo has quit the channel) so that I can see the actual conversations.
I also did some more New Hire reading. And did a little bit of preliminary research on one of the projects I'm assigned to. Wow, going to take a while before that one makes any sense.
And now, to bed. Hopefully a good night's sleep will help. I really want to go to the Write The Docs meetup tomorrow. My former boss from HAL is going, and I'd like to catch up with him again.