Home again

Made it home again just fine from my trip to NYC and visit with Todd. The flight left on time despite the weather and numerous other delays in Newark and even got in 45 minutes early. jeliza picked me up at the airport, and we even managed a date this weekend. Todd says that it is a bit 'jet-setting' of me to fly from coast-to-coast, have a date, and then start a new job the next morning...

I'm actually not terribly jet-lagged. I slept in until 11am ET most days and went to bed around 2am ET, which worked out pretty well for someone on Pacific Time. I didn't sleep all that soundly last night, but with a new job starting this morning requiring an early start, it wasn't likely to make much difference.

Anyhow, better get cleaned up and ready for my Microsoft "New Employee Orientation"...

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So CNN is making a big deal out of today's story about the 9/11 comissions findings on Iran, namely that they 'allowed the hi-jackers to pass through Iran'...

Just a point of order here, but didn't the United States of America allow the hi-jackers free access through our borders?

First day as a Microserf...

So between jet-lag from my trip to NYC this past week, and the general lack of sleep that goes with getting up early for a new job I expected today was going to be a long day. Now that the day is finally over, holyshitiamtired...

NEO (New Employee Orientation) took up most of the day. Afterwards I went to my new office and spent the rest of the day trying to cram as much information into my head as possible while setting up my new laptop system. I learned two key technical lessons today: (1) you must enable a firewall before putting a Windows box on the Internet even within a corporate network--my laptop was infected with a un-repairable Stassar-like virus in the time it took to download the critical updates that required restoring the thing to factory settings and starting over--and (2) individual per-system firewalls screw everything up and you have to do a lot of work to figure out how to get 3rd party server programs to actually work with them enabled.

I'm an SDE working for WGGT's DRP. If you don't know what that means, don't worry... Microsoft is really into acronyms, but naturally the computer program that lists all the meanings of said acronyms is confidential information :> Basically I'm a developer working in the Windows Gaming and Graphics group as part of Developer Relations.