Harry's Ruminations

Ladies and Gentlemen, My offer on a house has just been accepted!!! w00t!!!! I'll be moving 2 miles down the road to a domecile with a 2-car garage, a large central living room, and 3 Bedrooms, 2 baths, and a basketball goal. I'm about to faint. That is all.

You're eating "Macaroni and spaghetti sauce", because you made Kraft Mac'n'Cheese without realizing you had no milk.

Up at 4:45 this morning, and I'm still at work. Yikes...this team lead thing is about what it's cracked-up to be: All the responsibility, no benefits, no real power. Grand.

Had a feeling 05 was going to be life-changing, and that's come to pass. * I'm wanting to get married * I'm trying to buy a house ...And... * I've been promoted/demoted/reassigned to be team lead of my product. I now get to "drive" the new function, attend all the meetings, and generally be the point man for the whole thing. This should look good on my resume as I'm assuming more responsiblity and leadership. The track record of those who've had this position before me is undeniable: M -> Area lead architect S -> 1st line manager S -> 1st line manager D -> Requirements lead Does it scare me? Yes. Does it make me long for the simpler days of Perl scripts and throw-away Java code? Yes. Does it excite me in a weird way? Yeah. It's opportunity...it'll definitely help me move up in the company. My fears are manifold: I'm moving away from the technical arena of creating things to organization, administra...

This week, our software departments gets the rare pleasure of having an on-site consultant. I say rare in that this happens once every 5 years, and such visitation sparks a flurry of new products. It's a "Big Bang," if you will, without the follow-up munchies and stinky bedsheets. Anyway, the guy, C, is a unapologetic Canadian ass with a golden-hammer attitude towards the product he's advocating. "It can do everything well," he says. Thankfully, the product is free (they make money on consulting), so at least we didn't have to listen to a hard-sell on the software. * * * In other news, perhaps I won't be getting VoIP after all . Spam to your phone?!!

Things you remember @ odd moments: The other movie we saw was Cold Creek Manor a disposable thriller starring Sharon Stone, and Dennis Quaid, who must be dying for work at this point. It's charitable to say the film is slow; it's more accurate to say it's a complete waste of your time. All characters are stereotypes, and it's overlong for what story there is.