Random Update
It is certainly fall. We have been getting quite a bit of rain the last couple days, this morning it was raining so hard it looked like a wall of water coming out of the sky. (It was splashing gunk out of my gutters and all over the car it was coming down so bad) But otherwise it was a productive day, even though I spent way more time dealing with oncall then I should have been.
Small rant about work. Somehow my team has become the ‘tech support’ of the group, so even when something has NOTHING to-do with our stuff, we are getting dragged in. I spent something like three hours today (including getting paged at 3am) trying to figure out why someone elses team app was slow. The app doesn’t run on any of our services, doesn’t have us as a dependency and nothing of ours was slow. But he keep paging me and our secondary. Butthead!
So between the pages, I took Isaac to Denny’s with the plan to take him with me to work. I decided to go in this weekend and move myself from a cube into my new office. (first one since coming to Amazon) I have to share the office with our lead SDE, but I’m really looking forward to being able to shut the door part of the time. I’ve hit that spot where I’m now the person everybody comes to for their questions. It makes it very difficult to get any real work done, so I’m hoping the separation will help.
I’m trying to catch up on my RSS feeds tonight and came across this cool link. It is eight cool places for geeks that you can visit via Google Earth. Very cool site, although I realized that I have only been to two of them personally.
Tomorrow I’m hoping the rain storms will let up enough so I can climb the tower and pull down the rotator control cable. I have tended plans to replace the rotator next week, but that means replacing the cable connector and I’d like to have it done ahead of time. (Including testing the rotator itself.) Should be easy if it will stop raining long enough for me to get up on the tower.