I’ve shifted to doing a lot of night work and luckily, a lot of it has been here in Jacksonville so I’m home all day. I leave just when they go to bed and come home in time to take Becca to school (once). But the change in hours is really a bitch to get caught up on. I normally operate on five to six hours of sleep but I am amazed at how much of a difference it makes, WHICH five hours you get. Sleeping from 1am until 6am is enough to charge me up and keep me going. But when I sleep from 7am to 1pm I’m still tired all day! I figure just about the time I get used to this they’ll switch me back to days.
The work load has been focused on maintenance requests recently and we’ve got another few weeks of it ahead of us. I have been told all about this new CSMP project they’ve got me slated for but everyone on the project got an e-mail asking for an updated resume. Followed up with an e-mail asking how interested we were in six months overseas. He asked us to rate it on a scale of 0-3
0 = No interest
1 = Interested only if located in Europe or Asia
2 = Interested as long as site is not in hazardous region
3 = Interested in all opportunities
I listed myself as a 0.5 I really don’t want to go away for six months but if they put me somewhere I want to see and the pay scale improves dramatically, I could be talked into it.
The new iPod arrived this afternoon. I barely had time for it to load up my usual 40G I carry on my old iPod before I had to drive in for another night at work. I can’t wait to get home and really inspect my new toy.
I have been updating my iTunes like a madman. I have become obsessed with loading album art for all the songs. There’s a lot of cover art that didn’t update automatically and a lot of it that is hard to find. I had to load a lot of popular bands manually as well. I was surprised that the Beatles didn’t automatically load. But it made for a lot of fun looking up the single/B side covers and all.
Another time killer I’ve been wasting away on is “Stella”. An Atari 2600 emulator. I’ve been playing thirty of forty of the old Atari games and Becca is looking at me like I’m stupid. I’ve got an Xbox in the other room and I’ve got the computer right here, loaded with lots of cool games and realistic graphics. Instead I waste my time playing old shit that looks like one blob hitting a pixel across the screen to the other blob. And I’m having a lot of fun doing it. Old school baby, old school.
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