Day 1 back on the job
Oct. 12th, 2004 11:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperGot up at quarter to seven today--after sleeping very oddly, and having gone to bed well before midnight. That resulted in my lying awake for a considerable amount of time before I finally snoozed off, and even then, my dreams were strange. I have these jumbled impressions of having had to do the voting for the Presidential election by using something akin to lotto tickets and scratching off the silver off the symbols for the candidate we wanted. Or something like that. It's rather hazy; this is a sign of how oddly I slept.
But once I got up and got going, the day went rather well. I have a short walk down the hill from our house to where the busses run in either direction; I have my pick of a couple of different busses that will get me going towards Microsoft, and I have my choice of going either southward through downtown Seattle and then across the lake on 520, or else northward through Bothell and then down 405 and swinging around to Microsoft from either Kirkland or Bellevue, and bypassing the lake entirely. Either way, it seems to be about an hour's transit time. Plus the time required for walking to the bus stop.
Everybody seemed gratifyingly happy to have me back--especially Jon, the FTE with whom I'd been working before, whose general reaction to my renewed presence could be summarized as "OH THANK GOD Angela's back!" It seems that the area for which I was responsible for testing as of when my last contract ran out has received very little attention while I was gone--so I'm jumping right back in to test that some more until it ships. And apparently it's going to be a while till it ships, too. Yay guaranteed work for me!
I was stunned and amazed to see that they had my email up and running for me when I showed up--I have an old email address back again, the same one I actually had during my stint as a contractor at Borg from 1995 to 1997. Apparently, though, that address is in somebody's spam database. Because when I got Office 2003 installed on my mail machine at work, I found two pieces of spam waiting for me. Grf.
But the good part of the mail being available was that they actually got my name spelled correctly. So I don't have to hassle the folks who are responsible for setting up accounts to correct it. No badge yet for me, though. It'll probably be another day or three before I'm fully entered into the system. Why they had my email ready and waiting for me and didn't have appropriate credentials in the system for me to get a badge yet, damned if I know.
I spent most of the morning getting my mail machine set up, and then most of the afternoon reading over the new set of scripts to be run in my area of responsibility. Then I figured out a database query problem for our test run reporting site, fixed it, and was told I could scram early. So I scrammed early!
It's good to be back in the familiar lab, around familiar faces, and to be able to look forward to doing pretty much familiar work tomorrow.
But once I got up and got going, the day went rather well. I have a short walk down the hill from our house to where the busses run in either direction; I have my pick of a couple of different busses that will get me going towards Microsoft, and I have my choice of going either southward through downtown Seattle and then across the lake on 520, or else northward through Bothell and then down 405 and swinging around to Microsoft from either Kirkland or Bellevue, and bypassing the lake entirely. Either way, it seems to be about an hour's transit time. Plus the time required for walking to the bus stop.
Everybody seemed gratifyingly happy to have me back--especially Jon, the FTE with whom I'd been working before, whose general reaction to my renewed presence could be summarized as "OH THANK GOD Angela's back!" It seems that the area for which I was responsible for testing as of when my last contract ran out has received very little attention while I was gone--so I'm jumping right back in to test that some more until it ships. And apparently it's going to be a while till it ships, too. Yay guaranteed work for me!
I was stunned and amazed to see that they had my email up and running for me when I showed up--I have an old email address back again, the same one I actually had during my stint as a contractor at Borg from 1995 to 1997. Apparently, though, that address is in somebody's spam database. Because when I got Office 2003 installed on my mail machine at work, I found two pieces of spam waiting for me. Grf.
But the good part of the mail being available was that they actually got my name spelled correctly. So I don't have to hassle the folks who are responsible for setting up accounts to correct it. No badge yet for me, though. It'll probably be another day or three before I'm fully entered into the system. Why they had my email ready and waiting for me and didn't have appropriate credentials in the system for me to get a badge yet, damned if I know.
I spent most of the morning getting my mail machine set up, and then most of the afternoon reading over the new set of scripts to be run in my area of responsibility. Then I figured out a database query problem for our test run reporting site, fixed it, and was told I could scram early. So I scrammed early!
It's good to be back in the familiar lab, around familiar faces, and to be able to look forward to doing pretty much familiar work tomorrow.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2004-10-13 08:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-13 05:44 pm (UTC)Getting up at quarter to seven, not quite so much. ;)
Zzzzzzz....
no subject
Date: 2004-10-14 12:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-14 12:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-14 03:16 am (UTC)Thank Feedster for it.
no subject
Date: 2004-10-14 12:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-14 03:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-14 03:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-14 03:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 03:19 am (UTC)