Author Archives: Alan V

Rain rain rain

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Today was gross and drizzly… appropriate weather, I guess.

Work hasn’t been going nearly as well as I’d like. I’m starting to get results back now from my first real task (that took about twice as long as estimated), and it looks like I missed the goal… meaning that I didn’t really finish the task after all, despite taking over half a week to do it. Blah.
I also generally feel like I’m having much more trouble understanding the code that I really should be.

Meh.
I want things to be simple again, like they were this weekend or last semester.

Pittsburgh

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The weekend summarized in snapshots.
(Lots of photos!)


























After all that was halfprice tastiness at Fuel (they have awesome mixed drinks there!). Today was flight home. My plane arrived 50 minutes early into Las Vegas, turning a 2 hour layover into a 3 hour layover… but besides that, the trip was uneventful. Final tally of of airline abuse to the ceramics and glass I packed to bring back here: two of eight glasses broken and one of six small ceramic plates broken. Everything else survived, amazingly (including the giant Costco bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and soap as well as all the dinner plates, all the bowls, and all the silverware and knives). Huzzah.

Best weekend in a long time. Thanks again to teh Ben and Jon for picking me up at the airport.

I might eventually sort through the photos again and post some of the more portrait-like ones in portraits and/or a reselection of photos from the weekend in photos2. Would anyone be potentially intested in this? I think I’m just feeling photo deprived (besides the beach trip with brewer and dkb, this is the first serious use my camera has gotten since leaving CMU).

Tomorrow is work. Blah.

Valentine’s Day

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Surprise flowers delivered to your workplace’s reception and picked up with a huge surprised smile on your face == amazing.

Best. Valentine’s. Ever.

How did I ever get so lucky? :)

Also, my new dentist is awesome. No more painful manual scraping with metal picks FTW.

It’s A Post

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Wow, I haven’t written anything here for a while.

Last week at work was admin training… basically learning all about the application. It was good.

This week was my first real week of work. Fixed some bugs, wrote some tests, fixed some more bugs, wrote some more tests… somewhere along the line I started learning some of the codebase, which is good. I still feel overwhelmed by all the code, but at least I’m not feeling completely stupid and frustrated like I was feeling Wednesday.

Life besides work has been uneventful. Last weekend was rock climbing followed by bars with people from work, and it was quite awesome. I really should get out more… it’s just that I always feel so tired after work and just want to sleep. Meh.

I miss people in Pittsburgh, but I’m really happy here in San Francisco. I guess that’s a good state to be in.

Living here is expensive. Let’s go shopping.