Not sure my heart can stand the strain

[annathepiper]

We actually have builds to test today. There were problems with them, but they got FIXED. And we have tests IN PROGRESS. RIGHT NOW. Gosh, this whole doing actual work thing? A girl could get used to this, at least if her contract wasn't about to run out. This is not to say I haven't had some time on my hands today, though. In between waiting for build issues to get fixed, I've been slowly whittling away at my LJ comments backlog. So this is why some of you fine folks are getting answers to stuff that's several weeks old. Yep, this is me, Perenially Behind Girl! And I still owe ravyngyngvar a huge email, too.

I did NOT watch last night's Lost on the assumption that I should wait until mamishka can come over and see it with me. Now that we have no BSG, gotta get in our new TV togetherness as best we can! So it'll be Lost, Bones, and hopefully Charlie Jade for a while. Instead, I spent most of last night heavily pondering Lament, though I didn't do much in the way of actual writing. Mostly I took a bunch of notes to try to plot out the rest of the way Chapter 15 is going to go; more on this in my next Writing filter post.

I have learned, courtesy of working on my LJ comments catchup, that my current layout is not conducive to long-running threads. It's also not really friendly to posts where anything breaks the expected width of the content, such as over-wide pictures or quiz results. Oops. I'll have to see how much of this I can fix once I have the time.

And I learned, although this is old news, that my former workplace Attachmate has merged with lyonesse's former workplace WRQ, which was once one of Attachmate's biggest competitors. The merged company is apparently... AttachmateWRQ. Which is less than euphonious. But then again, "Attachmate" by itself wasn't exactly euphonious, either.

And they have no open software testing positions, either. Foo.

Tuesday miles: 1.2
Wednesday miles: 2.45
Miles out of Hobbiton: 352.95
Miles to Rivendell: 105.05

Comments

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

huh! so that's what happened to them....whatevah :)

[solarbird]

It totally should have become WRQmate. ^_^

[annathepiper]

I'd had no idea this had happened till I tried to check WRQ's web page to look up whether they had any open positions, and it pointed over to attachmatewrq.com. "Whatevah" was about the vibe I got off the site, too.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

No, but I know somebody who does. Sent it to you out-of-band.

[annathepiper]

Received! Thanks!

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

I did NOT watch last night's Lost on the assumption that I should wait until mamishka can come over and see it with me.

Awwwww! You are such a good friend! I definitely need to see it again, cause I had some craptastic reception at my place ... and besides must tape and do more media socialness with you! Yay! Perhaps Sunday evening? When/if we hit a media lull, I'm going to have to introduce you to Alias. Cause OMG! Good! :)

[annathepiper]

*smooches da Meems* Yeah, I was wanting to save the newness till you were over here! Sunday evening sounds potentially doable, let me know if your availability changes.

As for Alias, heh, I'm not sure I have room for yet another new show in my brain, but we'll see what happens. ;)

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

No, no, that's why I said "when we hit a media lull" ... that is to say, when we're at a point where there isn't a ton of good stuff to watch, that's when I'll show you Alias. :)

I could come over on Saturday afternoon and watch stuff or Sunday night? Gotta do some work on Saturday during the day and work at Scarecrow that night and I'm meeting with Ivo on Sunday to do some brain work.

[annathepiper]

Ah okay, about the lull!

Either Saturday afternoon or Sunday night sounds cool to me. Do you have a preference?

QA jobs

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure we're still hiring QA folk at WhitePages.com. Web experience, automation, and running a linux server at home are all points in your favor. So, if things don't work out where you're at, that's one more lead!

Our QA department's gone through an overhaul as the former lead left, and we have a new one who seems really good. (The old one, to put it politely, employed aggressive tactics to most aspects of her job.) I'd feel comfortable letting someone take a job in that group now. :-)

Good luck! (Although, I hope for your sake that you don't have to go through job change stress.)

Re: QA jobs

[annathepiper]

Well, I'm going to change jobs regardless--my contract is about to run out, and there's nothing I can do about that. :) So I need to be finding myself a new job as quickly as possible. It would be fabulous to get something lined up that would prevent me from having to go on unemployment.

I'll check your all's site. Thanks for the heads up!

[wingedelf.livejournal.com]

We have at least one position open here. I'd have no problem at all recommending that we bring you in for an interview.

[annathepiper]

If it's a position I'm qualified for, by all means, I'd be very grateful for a recommendation. :)

[wingedelf.livejournal.com]

Spiffy. Send me a resume at vtucherov@virtuoso.com and i'll get it to the appropriate folk.

[annathepiper]

I'm going to be updating it tonight for the nibble technoshaman sent me, so I'll send you a copy of that too! Thanks!