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sergebroomWe drove back from the Bay Area last night. After BayCon, we stayed at my parents-in-law, and my wife visited her relatives while I worked in my team's building. The first day, I came in before any of my teammates did, what with my being an early bird, and couldn't find any indication that a free cubicle had been reserved for me and that disappointed me at first. But that turned out to be a gift heavy with silver lining. You see, I wound up plugging in at one of the minimalist desks that line our cubicle farm's center aisle. That meant no privacy. but it also meant that everybody saw me working non-stop day after day after day after day and, more than once, I was asked if I ever NOT work. I hope this is the kind of observations that will trickle to the East Coast, which is where our manager hails from.
So, yes, I worked long days without any non-work access to the internet, but people frequently showed their appreciation of what I do. It'd appear that the professional recommendations made to me by my friend Yoko haven't fallen on deaf ears because, after one meeting, someone told me I had come across as "...stately and debonnaire..." If this keeps up, they will consider me for an official leadership position. In all this, I did find time to have dinner at Berkeley's Bongo Burgers with one of our users. Her 15-yar-old son deplored he had nothing left to read so we went over to Moe's, on Telegraph, after which my friend dropped me off at at BART Station.
So, most of last week wasn't a vacation, but it was a good trip. And I did add a few feathers to my professional cap, especially after I singlehandedly and quickly fixed a problem that had been plaguing our group and another group that uses our data. The drive was uneventful, but long, and by the end I found myself thinking about the advantages of flying.
So, yes, I worked long days without any non-work access to the internet, but people frequently showed their appreciation of what I do. It'd appear that the professional recommendations made to me by my friend Yoko haven't fallen on deaf ears because, after one meeting, someone told me I had come across as "...stately and debonnaire..." If this keeps up, they will consider me for an official leadership position. In all this, I did find time to have dinner at Berkeley's Bongo Burgers with one of our users. Her 15-yar-old son deplored he had nothing left to read so we went over to Moe's, on Telegraph, after which my friend dropped me off at at BART Station.
So, most of last week wasn't a vacation, but it was a good trip. And I did add a few feathers to my professional cap, especially after I singlehandedly and quickly fixed a problem that had been plaguing our group and another group that uses our data. The drive was uneventful, but long, and by the end I found myself thinking about the advantages of flying.
