Worus

So it’s been a while since I’ve last had a chance to write.

I guess the largest thing happening right now is that my brother called yesterday and asked me to move in with him for four months. I’m considering doing it. I don’t think that it would be a bad roomate situation, as he works quite a lot and is a tidy person, and I think it could help me get started on all of the stuff that I’ll need to do to get a place on my own as well as give my checkbook a four month health test. Once four months is up, I would need to have found somewhere, which could be considered a good thing.

I’m leaning towards it, but I’m going to wait just a bit to make a decision. This behavior is typical of me with drastic life changes. I suppose it’s not even limited to that—I can’t even decide where to eat out!

At work today, I spent almost all day helping troubleshoot a system that I’ve never used before. In the end, we found out that the client was sending incorrectly encrypted data as well as not following specifications for another column. Since automated processing didn’t work, Thoi had to force it. At this point I just watched, because I really had even less of a clue what was going on then than before.

At the end of the day, my manager, Dennis, said that even though he hasn’t really assigned me any work to do that I’ve done a good job keeping myself busy and learning a variety of things. That made me feel special. As much as I feel like I have nothing to do at times, it’s hard to ask for too much to do when I know that I may be in over my head in about a month whether I try or not.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie comes out this weekend. Dean and I are headed to it, and I am way excited. It’s gotten not-so-good reviews from some people, but like someone else tried to give me as advice, reviews are only one person’s opinion. As much as I know that, reviews can be a little scary when they’re negative. Still, I’m excited and it shall be cool.

It looks like Chris is using RSS technology, which is exciting for me. It’s not like I’ve really contributed anything to the technology itself, but it’s good to know that other people whom I personally know are using a technology that I think is so cool. Furthermore, it’s not like I even had anything to do with him picking up using it, but, damn it, it feels good for no good reason.

I’m going to take the moment to write that I really should have spent sleeping.

Work at the store has been a bit stressful the last two nights. Kim is on vacation, and Ronda has been falling behind a bit. It’s not really Ronda’s fault, as Kim really doesn’t care to take the time and train her. Kim will schedule Ronda maybe one day a week. She’s really doing her best, and considering that she’s never had to do claims alone, I think she’s doing a fine job. It’s just messy as hell in that office, though. I stayed late tonight (as I did last night) to get things pretty clean and left Ronda some direction, since she seems to be a bit frustrated with the whole situation.

I did the coolest thing with numbers today. I was trying to write an algorithm to renumber a number line in a database (with identification numbers also attached) such that the fewest possible queries were executed. Instead of executing the renumbering in n queries, I did it in three; this works for any sequential number line of any size. I’m quite proud of it, but I need to test it a bit more as well as get the queries in order to show it. I love it when I can do cool stuff with numbers.