Updateapalooza

[c9]

• Lucky is fine. He was given an IV of fluids (they never say what kind of fluids*) overnight on Sunday, got another X-ray (which he loved) on Monday, and more bloodwork, and he was pronounced pretty healthy. But he has developed crystals in his bladder, which is common in male cats. If they keep growing, they can combine and create a urinary tract blockage, which is really trouble. So Lucky's now on new, 40% more expensive food, for the rest of his life if the vet gets her way. My tendency is to trust her completely, even though I've been well-trained by my nurse parents to not trust doctors. leapfish is distrustful of the private-sector aspect, and the fact that they only sell this magic crystal-dissolving prescription food at vet offices, nowhere else. For now we're feeding both of them this new food (since there's no way at the moment to keep them out of each other's food), which amounts to about $3.40 including tax to feed them each day. Yikes. Still less than we spend on ourselves of course. :)
  
  
• In Toronto today for what could be considered one of the first acts of my new managerial job. The original plan was to hire a Director of Instructors and Facilitators, who would be between the COO and me. I would be in charge of the technical instructor team, my friend would be in charge of the apps instructor team, and there would possibly be a third person in charge of the soft skills and project management facilitator team. When the budget was examined, they realized that you can't just invent new positions willy-nilly during a merger, so now we're got the COO, my old boss and new boss, me in charge of the technical instructors, my friend working on the apps instructors (in addition to numerous other projects), and a new person for the facilitator team. It's possible that someday she'll end up my boss as she has tons of the required skills for that Director position I mentioned, just no technical skills yet. Rather than answer an email she called me. Which was fine, just unusual for this company. She said "you guys are just wizards when it comes to email," one suspects due to our use of the Reply button.
  
  Anyway, meeting her in person today finally, and showing off my previous work, an internal instructor management system (web-based, petele has seen it and knows how much better the ASP.NET 2.0 version is gonna be). They book their facilitators using the old paper and pencil method, and I would like to wow them. Wish me luck!
  
  
• Work is getting me a new laptop to replace the piece of junk desktop I've been using. My boss has development plans for my spare time (maybe I'm not supposed to sleep any more?), so I told her that I can only do that by stealing a high-end classroom machine, and she instantly approved a laptop with high-end specs for me. Just realized I need more RAM than I requested though, so hopefully I can sneak that in before the order goes through.
  
  
• Another audition last night, this time for KWLT's Popcorn Plays V. The Popcorn plays are twelve ten-minute scenes presented in one show, with an ensemble cast of ten or so people playing multiple parts and filling production roles too. If I get a role I'll be directing a scene and stage managing another scene. Should be fun. I'll hear if I have a part by Friday I think.
  
  
• Anybody who knows ASP.NET 2.0 and wants a little for-pay project? Email me.
  
  
• Train's almost at Union Station. Better go.

* Just going for the joke here; I actually know what kind.

Comments

[primary-suspect.livejournal.com]

Let us know how the wowing went. And also tell us the specs of your new uber-laptop. Did you convince them to get you an Alienware Gaming Laptop(TM)? ;-)

ASP.NET 2.0 project

[petele.livejournal.com]

whats the project and what is the pay range? i may be interested, and or may know people who are interested! or at least i can advertise it on my blog. ;)

[c9.livejournal.com]

Ha! No. The specs are a Dell Dimension D610, 1.8GHz, 2GB, 80GB, DVD-R/W. Umm... the rest of the specs are meaningless to my current needs. :)

Re: ASP.NET 2.0 project

[c9.livejournal.com]

I'll drop you a line at some point and tell you more.

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

Not a MacBook Pro? :-)

[c9.livejournal.com]

I suspect doing ASP.NET development in a Microsoft-centric company would be tricky on a MacBook Pro.

Also they cost like double. Well, one and a halfle.

Also MacBook is a dumb name.

[primary-suspect.livejournal.com]

You got screwed, you should have waited a little and you could have got a laptop with dual-GPU video cards.... Sheesh dual-video in a laptop, what will they think of next: http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_notebooks.html

Pretty soon laptops are going to have 10 minute battery life, just enough time to boot, download e-mail, and shutdown again.