It's been hectic here. My mom called me last night to inquire as to if I was still alive, so I suppose it's time for a few updates:
Mike and I are getting along "ok" now. It's still awkward. After the last post, he began to act a bit more sane. We're working on being friends, but it's harder than I originally thought it would be.
Google boy got kicked out by his psycho roommate. It turns out she's that kind of girl that doesn't really like having other girls around (as they take attention away from her), so she told him to get out if he was going to insist upon dating me. Ok, whatever. I've only had like 3 conversations with her, during all of which I was quite nice. I suppose that's just her perrogative. Since I needed a place to live too, Google boy and I got a loft in the same building he used to live in. The loft is gorgeous. It's got 12' ceilings, all concrete and stainless steel, top floor, 1500sq ft. My bedroom is facing the city, and 3/4 of the wall is glass with sliding doors out to the balcony. When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I see is a fabulous view of the Atlanta skyline. I love living downtown. It is beyond awesome. Having a roommate isn't nearly as bad as I thought it'd be. We've got quite a bit in common, right down to our shared preference of skim milk - a habit I couldn't ever get anyone else into.
I went to Ikea this weekend because I don't have much in the way of furniture. I hate Ikea. It's ghetto cheap, which is kind of nice, but I feel like a dirty hippy college student shopping there. There's way too many people there. I did get a really neat chaise/couch thingie for my room though. It's the first piece of furniture I've ever really bought all by myself, other than small tables and bookcases and such. It's an odd feeling.
I finally finished my first project at work. For the past 3 weeks, I'd been putting in well over 110+ hrs a week. It's almost like I'm making up for the lack of work I've always managed to get by with at previous jobs. Being a developer requires such a different mindset from being a sysadmin. I'm used being smart enough to be lazy, but now it's all work, work, work. I don't think I mind it that much. I'm finally not bored. I got a break on Thursday/Friday last week, and I realized I didn't like being bored anymore. Bah.
I've been working on rewriting iwi(4) in FreeBSD 5, as WPA is broken. Bunches of other fun odd little problems with that driver too. I've never done this level of coding before, so I'm learning quite a bit. It's also been totally (not) fun working on figuring out how to debug ACPI on the Inspiron 9300. I may be able to find some help with Darius, but he's never done work like this either. It's code to keep me from thinking about work code. I am such a nerd.
My warlock finally hit lvl 40. Actually, I'm 42 now. I *love* my felsteed. Not having to walk makes the game much less of a grind.
Nathan was over this past weekend. It was his first look at my new place. We had the windows open, and when we weren't looking he apparently amused himself by throwing socks and waffles (???) out the window at people. Good going, Nathan. You are so grounded.
I wore my Google shirt and my daemon horns to work today. Too fun. I hope the horns aren't over the top.
