Working for a change

Work has started off allright. I like my team, have a new spot that's not right behind the door, and the promise of working on some interesting and cool things in the future. Right now, it's a lot of reading and familiarizing myself with the practices of the group and all the technologies PI currently is supporting. I work for PI -- the Platform Infrastructure group of CNET Networks. My division is responsible for two different search engines, the web server, the application server, and a few other technologies that run across nearly all network sites under the CNET umbrella (which is a lot).

It's exciting when the changes you make will impact a service that registers thousands of page impressions everyday, not to mention all of the users viewing and all of the developers working on top of what you're building. It's a very cool group. I'm onto the Linux boxes, today, and it's only going to get more interesting from here.

After a whopping two days, I'm very excited about my choice to work here instead of the city. 9.5 miles from home, about 15 to 20 minutes of easy driving to get here and back. Not bad.

Now to go home and crash, because I am definitely not yet used to the schedule of getting up this early every day.

What's New?

Not too much. It's been awhile since I wrote on here. Things are pretty different in my daily life since last update. For starters, I'm back at home adjusting to living with Mom and Dad again. It's going really well thus far. I start work -- my real job -- on Monday. That's kind of foreboding. I should've gotten a haircut for my first day, but have lazily decided I didn't feel like it. For some reason, haircuts to me are like a trip to the dentist (something else I am currently putting off). I don't like thinking about it, but once I'm there, it's no biggy. Meh.

I'm back from a week at the shore with some great people. It was good times. I've put some pictures up online: here they are. Though there was some bickering, Leslie put it best: we're like a family. Good times and fun with some occassional bickering and nerve-scratching. All-in-all I very much enjoyed it and hope we make it a pretty regular thing.

I'm done school. At least for awhile. I'm a decent amount through a masters' program. It's just a matter of if I want to even continue down the current path or even when I'll think of doing it. I'm on sabbatical, so to speak, so I can take this job with CNET. I've a lot of thoughts about the process of leaving school... but they're mostly thoughts I should've started to have a year ago when I graduated. I've just delayed everything, I s'pose.

Oh well. Just letting you know I'm back around on this blog-thing and all is okay!