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*poof* where does the time go?
Jan. 24th, 2011 12:06 amOh yeah, I was on call for a week and lost my rhythm. There are 9 of us in the call rotation. One guy prefers to do his rotation two weeks at a time. I believe he gets 3 rotations a year. That leaves 46 weeks for the rest of us, meaning six of us get 6 weeks and two lucky souls only get 5. In theory. Last year I did 6 weeks; this year's schedule was only published through the first week of Feb., presumable due not wanting to prematurely give away the surprise layoffs. Hopefully the remainder of the schedule will soon appear. And with that in mind, I need to get my vacation requests in ASAP.
My (mom's) family reunion is July 2nd. I'm already assuming I'm going to drive to Ohio for that rather than fly. Even at $4 gas.
I've talked about going to the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York for a very long time now, and it's high time I stopped talking and went.
I'm sure Sam is going to want to go horseback riding again, so I should figure that out, as well as going to Storyland with Elyssia, which got rained out last year because I waited until the last minute to try to go. Part of it is I hate the drive. I'm actually more reluctant to do that drive (which is only about 2 hours) than to drive down to Rinebeck, which is a little over 4 hours according to Google. Maybe there's something about familiarity and contempt going on with that. Then there's winter break, spring break, Christmas break, two antiquarian book shows, and the python conference down in Atlanta in March to consider.
I had asked my manager at work about sending me to the conference, but then the company got bought, the "strategic direction" changed, and now I'm not the admin for the system running the python app (Cobbler), so I highly doubt that I'll get to go courtesy of my employer. If I have to pay for it myself, it will be every bit of $3k for travel, hotel and the conference fee, I'm sure. As much I want to go, the overly-practical side of my brain is sarcastically asking how smart is it to invest that much time and money into learning a programming language (and getting immersed into its culture) that is neither a job requirement nor anything I'll get "graded" on for my review? I already know that the answer lies in how much I want to go back to being a full-time programmer. I suppose I should seriously investigate the python programmer market this week to find out.
My (mom's) family reunion is July 2nd. I'm already assuming I'm going to drive to Ohio for that rather than fly. Even at $4 gas.
I've talked about going to the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York for a very long time now, and it's high time I stopped talking and went.
I'm sure Sam is going to want to go horseback riding again, so I should figure that out, as well as going to Storyland with Elyssia, which got rained out last year because I waited until the last minute to try to go. Part of it is I hate the drive. I'm actually more reluctant to do that drive (which is only about 2 hours) than to drive down to Rinebeck, which is a little over 4 hours according to Google. Maybe there's something about familiarity and contempt going on with that. Then there's winter break, spring break, Christmas break, two antiquarian book shows, and the python conference down in Atlanta in March to consider.
I had asked my manager at work about sending me to the conference, but then the company got bought, the "strategic direction" changed, and now I'm not the admin for the system running the python app (Cobbler), so I highly doubt that I'll get to go courtesy of my employer. If I have to pay for it myself, it will be every bit of $3k for travel, hotel and the conference fee, I'm sure. As much I want to go, the overly-practical side of my brain is sarcastically asking how smart is it to invest that much time and money into learning a programming language (and getting immersed into its culture) that is neither a job requirement nor anything I'll get "graded" on for my review? I already know that the answer lies in how much I want to go back to being a full-time programmer. I suppose I should seriously investigate the python programmer market this week to find out.
