Intriguing morning so far
Feb. 24th, 2006 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperSo I got up half an hour early today to come in for an all-hands meeting for our overall group at 9am, which ran overtime and wound up being 90 minutes. Oof. I'm all information-overloady, since the meeting was all about where the group is going over the next couple of years and such, stuff that will probably not impact me unless my contract gets renewed. So I don't know if any of that will wind up meaning anything to me.
What does wind up meaning something to me, though, is being informed that my immediate manager is no longer my immediate manager. There's a PGM guy leaving next week, and my manager's stepping over into his job. Which means that now I answer to the guy one hop up the food chain for the time being, until such time as a new QA director is hired. So this'll be... interesting. It probably won't affect much of my actual day to day testing as I've been working with one of the FTEs on a daily basis anyway, helping him test stuff, but I'll find out more about this this afternoon.
Just before (as it turns out) we're all heading over to GameWorks this afternoon anyway--partly as an all-hands morale event and partly as a sendoff for the guy who's leaving. So really short work day today. Can't say I mind that much. ^_^ And GameWorks is right by my bus stop, so I can head home from there very easily.
Meanwhile, I am stunned, STUNNED I TELL YOU, to have discovered that the U-district got snow (it turns out one of the FTEs on my team lives in the U-district, not terribly far from MurkSouth, and he reported snow there) and Kenmore didn't. We only got a few random weird granules of snow on the steps and on the deck, though there were some icy patches on the roads this morning as I headed down to the bus stop. There was more noticeable accumulation further in towards town along Lake City Way, though. Very weird weather.
I have started J.D. Robb's Origin in Death, on which I made fairly decent inroads on the bus on the way in, given that the commute was so slow. I don't know if it was a matter of the roads being slick or just rush hour traffic or what, but it was significantly slower than my usual commute half an hour later.
And last night, I wrote like a crazy mad writing thing. I hit nearly two thousand words. Something about simultaneously working on multiple books seems mysteriously easier than trying to through that many words into one book at once. I think I must be hitting the same section of my brain that used to be in charge of me roleplaying in multiple windows at once in tinyfugue. ;) It's almost exactly like that, as I go back and forth and add more words to each file, lather, rinse, repeat.
And oh yeah--on the way home last night I spent my Borders coupon, but since they didn't have![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rachelcaine's Chill Factor in that store, I wound up buying a CD instead. The Young Dubliners' Real World. Yay!
Also, raspberry-flavored Lindor balls are really, REALLY good.
Thursday evening miles: 1.85
Friday morning miles: 1.6
Miles out of Hobbiton: 729.45
Miles out of Rivendell: 271.45
Miles to Lothlórien: 192.55
What does wind up meaning something to me, though, is being informed that my immediate manager is no longer my immediate manager. There's a PGM guy leaving next week, and my manager's stepping over into his job. Which means that now I answer to the guy one hop up the food chain for the time being, until such time as a new QA director is hired. So this'll be... interesting. It probably won't affect much of my actual day to day testing as I've been working with one of the FTEs on a daily basis anyway, helping him test stuff, but I'll find out more about this this afternoon.
Just before (as it turns out) we're all heading over to GameWorks this afternoon anyway--partly as an all-hands morale event and partly as a sendoff for the guy who's leaving. So really short work day today. Can't say I mind that much. ^_^ And GameWorks is right by my bus stop, so I can head home from there very easily.
Meanwhile, I am stunned, STUNNED I TELL YOU, to have discovered that the U-district got snow (it turns out one of the FTEs on my team lives in the U-district, not terribly far from MurkSouth, and he reported snow there) and Kenmore didn't. We only got a few random weird granules of snow on the steps and on the deck, though there were some icy patches on the roads this morning as I headed down to the bus stop. There was more noticeable accumulation further in towards town along Lake City Way, though. Very weird weather.
I have started J.D. Robb's Origin in Death, on which I made fairly decent inroads on the bus on the way in, given that the commute was so slow. I don't know if it was a matter of the roads being slick or just rush hour traffic or what, but it was significantly slower than my usual commute half an hour later.
And last night, I wrote like a crazy mad writing thing. I hit nearly two thousand words. Something about simultaneously working on multiple books seems mysteriously easier than trying to through that many words into one book at once. I think I must be hitting the same section of my brain that used to be in charge of me roleplaying in multiple windows at once in tinyfugue. ;) It's almost exactly like that, as I go back and forth and add more words to each file, lather, rinse, repeat.
And oh yeah--on the way home last night I spent my Borders coupon, but since they didn't have
rachelcaine's Chill Factor in that store, I wound up buying a CD instead. The Young Dubliners' Real World. Yay!Also, raspberry-flavored Lindor balls are really, REALLY good.
Thursday evening miles: 1.85
Friday morning miles: 1.6
Miles out of Hobbiton: 729.45
Miles out of Rivendell: 271.45
Miles to Lothlórien: 192.55