HEY ALL YOU IOWANS!
I will be in town for ONE DAY and ONE DAY ONLY!
Saturday the 15th! I want to have a little get together, dinner/drinks/movies/hot tub at my house that night, and I want to go out during the day.
Call ME! And I will also be calling all of you to arrange this! KEEP IT CLEAR! I WANT TO SEE YOU ALL!
You don’t show, I come beat you down! It’s as simple as that!
HEY FAMILY! Do NOT NOT NOT tell Grandma.
OMG OMG OMG!
So…. Last week I interviewed for this job as a Systems Administrator at a non-profit in Chicago… Well I got the following e-mail yesterday JUST as I was leaving work:
….After a thorough selection process we awarded the position to another applicant. However, we were very impressed with your interview. We do have another position that we think you may be interested in (it also pays more). If you are interested in applying, please contact me so we can arrange to fly you out here to interview for this position.
OMG! So at first I was like, well it’s probably just for like a help desk job. But then it was like, why would that pay more?! So I open up the attachement and it says:
Director of Information Systems
Yes, that’s right. It says “DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS”! I feel so unqualified for the position and I’m like, do they realize I’m only 24… In my first interview for the other job, I had said that in 5 years I see myself being the director. And I’ve always wanted to be the director for a non-profit… I never thought I’d even be making it to the interview level at just 24 years old! This is so exciting. I e-mailed them back this morning accepting the interview offer. Now to wait and see when I’m going to Chicago.
But… On the other hand.. As much as I have complained about it in the past, I’m starting to like SoCal. I’m making friends, I’m having a good time and if I move up to Huntington, I think I’ll be liking it even more!
OMG.. I just got an e-mail. They want me to fly out on WED! And SHIT three people from the Ops Team already have Thursday and Friday off! OMG. What am I going to do!?!
Last night was great. Dinner with “The Boys”. Tonight should be amazing as well. Gah, so much stress! I’m out.
Yay! I got my issue fixed from yesterday. I’ve even got it now using the properties file to get the needed variables instead of them being hard coded.
Then I was having a column number issue. Damn this ETL tool! I ended up working 14 hours yesterday, everytime I told myself I wa going to stop, I’d go and sit on the couch for like 5 minutes and then come up with a new way to do something… It now works fully!
That’s exciting! Sorry, I’m a geek.
My plans for last night got cancelled, they wanted to do dinner too late. Sorry, but I eat early. And I go to bed early. I’m uncool like that, but I love having my two hours in the morning at work to myself.
Tonight’s plans have also been changed. The date has been moved up to an early afternoon date, and then going out with “The Boys”(?). Haha, Strip poker!
I’ve been having some really fucked up dreams lately. The other night I had one about Jenks, where he grew a beard and got fat. It also reminded me somehow that he still has a pair of my underwear from when he stayed over last summer in Iowa. Then last night I had this dream that I was laying in bed talking on the phone with someone and this guy just lets himself into my apartment and climbs into bed and starts making out with me and I had NO IDEA who it was! Very random.
I was thinking about moving a lot yesterday as well.. And talking it over with some people it seems like a really good idea. I would be saving about $250 a month. I’d be ON THE BEACH. And I wouldn’t be stuck in a lease incase I ended up wanting to move… I just dunno. Maybe this weekend I’ll go up there and look at it.
I’ve been talking to this guy online for a couple days now as just friends, he’s… 35. He seems really cool and from all the pics he’s sent me so far, he’s really hot. But um, he asked me on a date! I dunno if I should accept or not. I’ve been saying I need to look for older people, but I was thinking more like 25-27ish! Not 11 years older then me!
My new Samsung a950 is really pissing me off… This phone sucks.
Umm, nothing else. Adios.
Lately, I’ve been waking up at 3:10 am and then haven’t been able to get back to sleep after that. It’s very frustrating. I’ve even started going to bed later to try and help it.
And this morning it was raining so hard core, I just wanted to lay in bed all morning listening to it.
Another e-mail I enjoy getting are ones like this:
I *really* appreciate this – it’s amazing when you can write a software developer and your wishes come true the next day. Thanks SO much.
Glad to know that I can help people. 🙂
Going out Friday with Andrew, so far Mike, Robert and Patrick have all expressed interest in coming as well. And hopefully Joel, Jon and Ryan will be around to hang out with too.
The lights in my office are all burned out. It’s nice and yet frustrating at the same time.
I’ve been debating moving the last few days… With them raising rent and all that. This guy here has a place up in Huntington, right on the beach. But it’s a “big” loft, I might go check it out, but now that I’ve made so many friends down in Aliso area, I’m not sure I want to move even up to Huntington, as that seems so far away. Blah.
I’m going out on a Movie date on Thursday. So we all know how I feel about that one already. haha.
I’m still working on this ETL project at work, I’ve got it loading the information from the files, however when it goes to insert a row to fire off the importer task it inserts the wrong instance id. Thus meaning the importer task is trying to run against the wrong client.
I’m not sure WHY this is either, because I’m telling the importer to use the following:
var sqli = “begin icbo.addQueueEntry(25, 1, ‘” + stagingId + “‘, ‘_STG_STD’, 1, ‘” + transformerTaskutil.getMyInputParam( “ICIECMD” ) + “‘,null,null); commit; end;”;
The first value is the one that’s important, and clearly it’s set to 25, yet for some reason it’s being set to 14 somewhere and I can’t figure out where!
I’ve stopped going to the Docs… We both agreed that things have been a million times better in the last month. I’ve been very happy and making some friends and meeting nice people and hopefully things will continue to get better. I’d still like to get Jenks or Angel to come visit for a long weekend or something. It’d be nice to see either or both of them.
The mountians out my office window are really pretty right now, they are all green and stuff.
Ya know, it’s nice being able to say… “The only night I’m free this week is Wed.” And then having that night get filled up too… Having a life is good. 🙂
I love the rain.
Adios.
Ok, this post is all about bitching about work…
So here goes! First, our Project manager is an idiot. He gets paid 100k+ per year, and doesn’t do shit. He sits in his damn office and tasks come in, he doesn’t assign them right, he doesn’t date them right. He doesn’t do shit! I could freaking do his job a ton better then he does.
Second, there are people here who complain that they are so busy and blah blah blah, but yet they don’t really seemt to do anything. Everytime I see them they are playing games or sitting around talking or something stupid like that. Now, I know we have down time while waiting for other people. But comon this guy has freaking tasks that have been sitting around for months where all he has to do is click the “resolved” button. Or tasks that have been sitting there and all he has to do is something that’ll take 10 minutes.
It’s so frustrating, specially when I’m stuck sitting here WAITING for these people to do something.
Grrr. Then we’ve got people who doesn’t fill out thier timesheets liket hey are supposed to. It’s like, comon people that takes 10 minutes a WEEK to do. It’s not that hard.
I think I’m going to stop going to the Doc. I really don’t feel like it’s needed any more. Who knows.
I’ve been working on this ETL task all freaking day. For some reason it doesn’t seem to know what toInitCaps() is. Even though it’s IN THE FUNCTION LIST. And secondly I’m telling it to insert a row where one of the values is 25, but it keeps inserting 14! And I can’t find out where it’s doing that at! Very very annoying.
Granted I copied and pasted it from another ETL task that IS inserting 14… But, I changed it to insert 25 in the only place I can find it doing that at. Grrr. I just don’t know any more.
I’m out yall.