Day: March 20, 2005

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Well, I'm still up. 4 hours of sleep is not exactly the most fun I've ever had.

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Yesterday was pretty decent. I went in to work (as usual) for a few hours, and managed to get a bunch of stuff fixed and running right, which will drop my work load on monday to something that can be done in a regular work day. And good thing too! K's coming to town!

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That means I'm going to be ready to drop everything at a moment's notice, so it's good to be mostly caught up.

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I've done some killer work for our main project this weekend, I'm going to spring the changes on our PM on monday, I think he'll be extremely speechless, which is of course the response I'm looking for.

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I had a lovely chat with a friend all night. I called around 11pm, and didn't get off the phone til 4 am! That's something I haven't done since my much younger days, and I'd forgotten how much I enjoy it.

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It's funny, I've been writing down an imprint of my soul here and on my old site for the better part of a year, and while I've been comfortable with my beliefs, I hadn't run across anyone who was even vaguely similarly minded. It was a refreshing change to come across someone who could see where I was coming from without longwinded explanations being required. (Though I tend to give those when I get really wound up).

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I'll be back.

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I talked to a friend until 4 am (you know who you are, it was way fun)

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At 8:20 am shaw called, said they'd be here “soon” to connect my internet service.

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Oh

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my

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god

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iamsoveryverytired.

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More later.

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It's been another unusual week.

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I counted up my hours this year, and it looks like I've worked 75 hours over my contract since January 1. That was kind of cool, I hadn't been paying attention, and actually I've been feeling like a slacker! I'm going to see about cashing it out, and that should make my taxes somewhat more survivable.

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My medical plan from work just kicked in, so BC Med sent me a check for $100! I guess I had lost track and paid twice one month, I turned off paper billing from them, since I didn't have a home of my own all last year, and just did online transactions every month.

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I've done some seriously cool work for Merc recently. I've managed to keep up in the face of crisis. I've handled the new employee's flooding in. I've kept up with getting their equipment ready, and tech support for about 75 people. I've kept the servers from breaking. And in my copious spare time I've even done some work on our flagship product.

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hmmm.. I think I know where those 75 hours came from.

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Anyway. I wrote this killer installer for our big project. It never really was documented properly from the customer, and I've ended up replacing about 90{99f4aabb8f9a8b7318031e7dd7e1d4d33a10ca1a288a083cef0cdea647a62112} of the code in it, plus doubling the size by continuing to add features. Sadly, they keep adding feature requests, but none of them get passed to me (long story). So I've been proactively adding based on hints that the customer may want feature “x”.

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I showed it to the project manager yesterday. I've been telling him about it off and on, to keep him in the loop, but he's a damn busy man, so I try not to bother him, but I didn't know if he'd even seen it since I went into overdrive with it.

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“Holy Shit” was his reaction. He followed that with (in an loud voice) “WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME WE GAVE YOU A RAISE?!”.

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That was promising.

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At the end of the day asked me exactly how much I made. I told him, and he thought for a minute, then pulled me aside and offered me the job of “IT Manager”.

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I told him “Nothing personal, but I think I'd rather take a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Stupid team mates make me wiggy”.

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So we're going to hire some one to fill that post. Here's where it gets cool. I told him I'd happily work with the new lead on one condition, that I'm NOT accountable to him.

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His words. “Not a problem”

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I love my job.

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