Been thinking a lot today
We finally released and the stress level at work has dramatically dropped. The last software release was pretty hectic since we upgraded development versions and features that have worked since forever all of a sudden didn't work at all. Things appear to be going well with the new release since no major problems have been reported yet. *Knock on wood* Looks like I did a halfway decent job testing. The next version is being worked on and I'm just testing a lot of half completed work and writing up specifications for different changes or enhancements. The owner is in Costa Rica. Yeah that's right, Costa Rica. We have an office down there of programmers. One might say things in the North America office runs more smoothly while he is gone. I had to email specifications to him on a change and he appears to be in a great mood from his reply …plus the normalization of data that I cherish so much He wasn't in a great mood during the last release at all since he wanted things out in less than a month and testing took over two months. Hopefully when he returns next week his expectations for a release date aren't unrealistic. I haven't worked late at all this week. I've made dinner about every night for the last two weeks. It has nice being home at a decent time. Work beat out school again this quarter on my list of priorities. I blame the last software release.
The Civic is blinking an amber wrench shaped light each time I start it notifying me that the oil has only 10% life left. With all of this extra time one would think I'd be all on top of it but I'll probably wait until my car starts counting the miles over the recommended oil change interval. It's a Honda after all.
I've been thinking a lot lately. I met someone that reminds me of someone I use to be best friends with. I don't know if it is nostalgia or what but it just makes me think about how things were and how abruptly they ended and if it would be highly inappropriate to contact him again. I've only had that type of connection with a few people and it seems sad that I no longer have that one. It also made me think about this whole myspace/facebook/friendster thing going on. I'm finding friends from elementary school on these websites. People I haven't seen since I moved to Columbus in 93. And I just have to think what is the point of having these people on my friend list? Like really. I don't see us hanging out anytime soon and I don't see myself moving back to Cincinnati ever. Is it just to have 86 friends on myspace? I guess with work being slow the last two weeks I've had a lot of time to think and evaluate things.
The Civic is blinking an amber wrench shaped light each time I start it notifying me that the oil has only 10% life left. With all of this extra time one would think I'd be all on top of it but I'll probably wait until my car starts counting the miles over the recommended oil change interval. It's a Honda after all.
I've been thinking a lot lately. I met someone that reminds me of someone I use to be best friends with. I don't know if it is nostalgia or what but it just makes me think about how things were and how abruptly they ended and if it would be highly inappropriate to contact him again. I've only had that type of connection with a few people and it seems sad that I no longer have that one. It also made me think about this whole myspace/facebook/friendster thing going on. I'm finding friends from elementary school on these websites. People I haven't seen since I moved to Columbus in 93. And I just have to think what is the point of having these people on my friend list? Like really. I don't see us hanging out anytime soon and I don't see myself moving back to Cincinnati ever. Is it just to have 86 friends on myspace? I guess with work being slow the last two weeks I've had a lot of time to think and evaluate things.