April 27, 2004
Happy Birthday +1
Nerd alert: Dungeons & Dragons is 30 years old. And to think, without D&D I would never have learned what a bohemian ear spoon* was.
* It's a type of pole arm.
April 24, 2004
First week
I remembered that there is a lot to learn in the first few months of a new job, but really, this has been crazy. Designing a new architecture, talking about product direction, setting up a development environment, doing technology licensing evaluations, and, oh yeah, trying to get things like phones and whiteboards and enough chairs for the the conference room.
But it is really nice to have meetings that are interesting and exciting instead of mind-numbingly boring.
April 17, 2004
You can't leave!
My last day of work at my job was yesterday. It is a very strange thing to leave a job after almost 5 years. It is almost like breaking up, except you are breaking up with dozens of people instead of just one. And overall I am glad that I got to work with such a nice group of people and learn a lot over those years. There were definitely some difficult times, and maybe I should have left a little earlier, but I think this timing worked out well. I found it strange that so many people told me that it made sense for me to leave and pursue this opportunity since none of them would have said I should leave if I wasn't already planning to leave.
On to smaller and better things! Lots to learn, deadlines to meet, decisions to make...