Welcome to the Jungle
I moved out of my temp housing the other day, and into my nieces' playroom. Which is decorated in a jungle theme. Yeah, I've already heard the "'Me Tarzan, you Jane' dreams" jokes a few times.
While it's really great of my sister and her husband to let me stay at her place, it's been 3 days and I'm already sick of it. My nieces think of me as their new toy, and I'm too much of a sucker to say no. Plus, I don't have any place that is really *mine*. It's an hour drive each way to work, and that is just going to suck more when it starts snowing next week. Also, due to deficiencies in their heating system, the playroom gets to about 50 degrees every night.
So, I can't wait until the 17th when I can move into my house. We actually close on the house on the 14th, but I won't have time to move any furniture in until the 17th. All of the crap from San Jose will be arriving sometime around the 20th.
The good news is that my sister's family will be going out of town for 4 days next weekend. Anyone want to fly to Michigan for a kegger?
Still no word on when J will be able to move out here, or if she'll be able to keep her job when she gets here. We're getting a little annoyed at her chain of command for keeping us hanging for so long, to say the least.
From my YIM friends' list, I think I'm the only one working this week. :)
Yesterday we got bad news about my grandfather's leukemia. It seems that it is fatal. Earlier, they had told us that it would be something he could live with as long as he stayed on his medication. The news from that side of the family is a little confused right now, so the estimates range from 1 month to 1 year. I'm having a hard time dealing with this since it's coming so soon after my uncle's death.
My job is kind of a grind right now, but that will hopefully change. Right now, we are in the requirements negotiation / high-level estimate phase of a project that I am co-leading with another Senior Engineer. The group I'm in only has one "Team Lead" (a Senior Engineer that ends up acting as a manager), and I really feel that this project is a try-out for the other Team Lead role. So, I'm feeling additional pressure. This would be a lot easier if I knew *anything* about the internals of our systems here. I don't deal well with my own ignorance.
While it's really great of my sister and her husband to let me stay at her place, it's been 3 days and I'm already sick of it. My nieces think of me as their new toy, and I'm too much of a sucker to say no. Plus, I don't have any place that is really *mine*. It's an hour drive each way to work, and that is just going to suck more when it starts snowing next week. Also, due to deficiencies in their heating system, the playroom gets to about 50 degrees every night.
So, I can't wait until the 17th when I can move into my house. We actually close on the house on the 14th, but I won't have time to move any furniture in until the 17th. All of the crap from San Jose will be arriving sometime around the 20th.
The good news is that my sister's family will be going out of town for 4 days next weekend. Anyone want to fly to Michigan for a kegger?
Still no word on when J will be able to move out here, or if she'll be able to keep her job when she gets here. We're getting a little annoyed at her chain of command for keeping us hanging for so long, to say the least.
From my YIM friends' list, I think I'm the only one working this week. :)
Yesterday we got bad news about my grandfather's leukemia. It seems that it is fatal. Earlier, they had told us that it would be something he could live with as long as he stayed on his medication. The news from that side of the family is a little confused right now, so the estimates range from 1 month to 1 year. I'm having a hard time dealing with this since it's coming so soon after my uncle's death.
My job is kind of a grind right now, but that will hopefully change. Right now, we are in the requirements negotiation / high-level estimate phase of a project that I am co-leading with another Senior Engineer. The group I'm in only has one "Team Lead" (a Senior Engineer that ends up acting as a manager), and I really feel that this project is a try-out for the other Team Lead role. So, I'm feeling additional pressure. This would be a lot easier if I knew *anything* about the internals of our systems here. I don't deal well with my own ignorance.