25 May 2006
Being sick, is really not fun. I worked from home the last two days because I was sick.
I’m not sure what it is about moving to a new city that makes me seem to be so prone to getting sick. The same thing happened when I moved to Montreal. I guess it has something to do with adjusting to the public transportation or maybe some stress I don’t notice that is affecting me.
Regardless, it very much sucks.
Ilona and I talked for the first time in a while yesterday. That definitely cheered me up and made me feel better. She wrote something new, and it was absolutely amazing. I was tingling.
Life here has been good overall. I think next week when Shaun gets here it will be more fun. It will be nice to have one of my good friends who is my age and still single to drag around the city with me. It’s fun to go wandering around and exploring on your own, but it’s better to have a partner in crime to back you up when you see something or something happens that no one will believe.
Tomorrow night a few of us are getting together for dinner. Yet another friend from my HB days is coming out to Vancouver for a few days. Someday they’ll all end up out here. He was going to be crashing at my place Friday night because his travel arrangements got messed up, but I heard today they are all sorted out.
At least it will give me a chance to have a couple of beer with the team here at work tomorrow since dinner isn’t until 7pm. I’ve missed every once a month social team night because of raiding. Don’t get me wrong, I love my raiding, but I need to get to know the team here at work better too.
Holy fricking wow! They just dropped off a new 23” high definition widescreen flatpanel tv at my desk at work… and hooked up cable for me! I have tv at work! How amazingly cool is that? Pfft. Good bye 20” crt, you’ve served me well, may you find peace in your next life at the scrap heap.
The whole week has been like that. Happy and sad. Gratifying and frustrating. Up and down. Push and pull.
16 May 2006
This morning I woke up at 5:15am frozen and shaking. It wasn’t actually cold in the apartment or outside. I tried to cover myself with a mountain of blankets, but it didn’t help. I just couldn’t seem to get warm or stop shaking. Shaking violently to the point that it was hard to get out of bed.
I filled the tub with very hot water, but within five minutes of submersing myself in it; it felt luke warm. I continued to shake for about 20 more minutes.
It’s a scary thing to go through, and it’s not the first time it has happened. It has been happening once in a while since I was in highschool.
There is an odd tie between me getting these freezing shakes and the people I know and care about. The last time this happened was the day that my friend Ilona was in a car accident. Usually the worse it is, the worse the problem or the closer the person is to me.
I didn’t get any sleep after 5:15am, so I’m running on about three and a half hours of sleep. I tried to go back to bed at around 8:15am, but my body kept alternating between being too hot and being too cold. I made it to work though. Now I just have a massive headache and a sense of uneasiness.
Life is so weird.
11 May 2006
It’s raining. Grey and cold. Today is one of those days best spent in bed beneath a mountain of blankets away from the world.
One more day until the weekend. Surely I can make it one more day. Today has just been one of those days. Where everything goes wrong and you just wish the day hadn’t happened.
I’m so exhausted. Unfortunately the only time I feel tired enough to sleep is when I’m at work. Is this just the lingering effects of my bout with food poisoning this week? I hope so.
There have been a lot of people backing out on or just flat out not helping me lately. I’m one of those people that when I get it in my head that I’m going to do something, I go all out and do it. Unfortunately, not everything can be done alone. No matter how much one might wish it could be.
I think “weary” is the right word to describe me right now. So tired and weary.
Thankfuly the day is over and it’s time to go home now.
08 May 2006
| You Are a Prophet Soul |
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You are a gentle soul, with good intentions toward everyone.
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Selfless and kind, you have great faith in people.
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Sometimes this faith can lead to disappoinment in the long run.
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No matter what, you deal with everything in a calm and balanced way.
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You are a good interpreter, very sensitive, intuitive, caring, and gentle.
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Concerned about the world, you are good at predicting people’s feelings.
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A seeker of wisdom, you are a life long learner looking for purpose and meaning.
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You are a great thinker and communicator, but not necessarily a doer.
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| Souls you are most compatible with: Bright Star Soul and Dreaming Soul |
| What Kind of Soul Are You? |
05 May 2006
So I’m finally done with my Software Engineering Boot Camp. Thankfully I only had to go to two out of the eight days. A big thanks goes out to my manager for that!
As horribly boring and uneducational as it was, I still managed to find a couple of unexpected ways to make it tolerable enough to enjoy.
One way was constantly beating one of the other senior guys there who had to take the course. He does the exact same job as me on a different team and he has about 10 years more experience than I do. So yeah, fun :)
The second way was finding out that I have “street cred”. The instructor, who is about the number five guy around this company remembered me. Which is good, because I didn’t remember him >.> Anyway, we were doing this test where they gave us a bunch of broken code. They gave us about an hour to fix it. I had it done and tucked away after about 30 minutes and no one else finished it. Quote from the instructor “Well, I expected YOU to get it.” So that’s all good.
I also lucked out and ended up sitting between a couple of interesting people. Art L. and Jessie Z. They made it feel like we were the kids who always sit in the back in high school and cause trouble.
It was after the debugging test mentioned above that I came up with the idea of Digital Channeling. At the end of the class they went through the program and showed all of the corrections that needed to be done and how to fix them. I honestly couldn’t remember which crash was tied to which fix I did for a lot of them. I just fixed them. That’s just how it works for me. I look at code and I simply know “this is wrong!” and I fix it. I’m sure that this is just some skill that I have honed to perfection of thousands of hours of programming. Still, it’s interesting.
The Boot Camp has been making me late for my raid group all week. I was amazed to find out last night when I got home that they hadn’t even attempted the two last fights in Blackwing before I arrived. I thought for sure I was going to miss our second ever Nefarian kill. However I got to be there for that and finishing Molten Core which marks the first night we have ever finished off Ragnaros, Nefarian, and I believe even Onyxia(I wasn’t there, but I think my character did do the tanking…) in a single day. I think we are finally hitting our stride as one of the best raiding groups on the server.
This weekend I have promised myself that I am going to get serious about unpacking and try to finish it. I’m getting tired of having boxes all over my place.