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September 3, 2007
YAWN
So it's been nearly a year since I've posted anything on here. I'm amazed I remembered my password to edit stuff here. I was randomly Googling for myself and was thing remined that I actually have a blog of sorts, and I can post crap on here and maybe someone will read it if they're bored (I wonder if Copus still stalks this page). So I guess I can summarize the past year:
- continue work at NI
- 2 people in group leave company to go back to school
- boss #1 switches to another group
- I take over development of somewhere between 4 and 8 C-Series modules while the other 2 engineers left in my group work on single specific projects
- boss #2 arrives around February
- I continue what I'm doing, in June we finally get a new engineer in the group.
- Boss #2 leaves for another group
- Boss #3 takes over and decides the group should be reorganized.
So in the end I'm still doing what I was doing to begin with, but it's been pretty random as far as the management goes. In the non-work world:
- New kitty in February.
- Bought a house back in May.
- Been working my butt off all summer.
So that's about it really. I've been wanting to get back into doing some EE stuff as a hobby, but my new office at home is still a mess because I need someplace to store a bunch of boxes. Once I can get organized then I can figure out what exactly I want to mess with. Right now I'm thinking of something in terms of home automation, or maybe some crazy distributed set of sensors to track how well my AC is doing. I did buy a projector and installed that on the ceiling of the loft, but I still need to run cables for that so they aren't running across the floor.
This past weekend we picked out new living room furniture. That should show up on Friday. They had no interest till something like 2012 so no big rush to pay that off.
For the number of minutes I use my cellphone I decided to switch to prepaid with T-Mobile. I ended up getting a Nokia 6103, but sadly I discovered that at least the outer display is a very poorly designed piece of crap since within 2 weeks it developed a large crack that rendered it useless. This past weekend the crack managed to get worse. I can only guess that from it being in my pocket with my wallet that it got pressed on too hard, but I've never had a phone so delicate that I couldn't keep it in my pocket without damaging it. Heck I even still have my very first Spring PCS phone (one of the very first digital cellphones from '98) and that still works perfectly fine, but this crappy cheap Nokia phone can't even handle being in my pocket for 2 weeks without becoming heavily damaged.
Yes, hopefully Google will pick this up: Nokia 6103 = CRAP.
Well that's my rant for the evening. I have somewhat of a cold this weekend, and it happens to be one where we have Monday off. I always end up sick on the long weekends for some reason....
Posted by Plocmstart at September 3, 2007 12:23 AM
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