Month: April 2001

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Friday 13th

So we’ve just now gotten settled into our new digs at work, and they’re gonna make us move again in three weeks upstairs, because of some departmental shuffling.

That is, for those of us that are still here three weeks from now.

I’ve been asked over and over, but I’ll say it again: it won’t be for about another week and a half that we find out exactly which 12% of the company is laid off, which makes for some very tense times. Well, at least the people I’m talking to are handling the anxiety fairly well, but there is some very morbid humor floating around…

I took some pictures of the new campus, just to show off the view… a few months ago, we had a barbeque at Bayshore Park, and I was captivated by the view of the bay / rest of the bay area… well now I have that view every day at work. It’s wonderful. Moving up to the third floor will make me even happier, unless of course they stick us on the other side of the building. 🙁

*sigh* I paid my taxes. I doubt I will ever again pay that much to the government in any one year.

Speaking of paying money, I got my new monitor set up yesterday. Very very nice. Now I need a digital video card that supports the widescreen mode…

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here goes…

So tomorrow is the first day at the new campus… I get to play in a new building.. yay.

So I visited no less than four grocery stores today, and I think I found the one that I’m going to go to from now on to buy passover matzoh. You’d think that normal grocery stores would know the difference between year-round matzoh and kosher for passover use matzoh.

Ugh, I hate Passover. At least this year I have macaroons.

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UB40 part 2

So not only did I see a concert DVD of UB40 at Fry’s today, just to mock me… driving home tonight, “Red Red Wine” came on, and it took me a few moments to realize I was tapping my fingers to it. ARGH! Someone up there’s mocking me.

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Anti-UB40

I just realized how much I really hate UB40. Perhaps it’s some subconcious thing, where my brain is getting back at me for every really liking the band. But just the mention of the words “red red wine” sends my arms flailing wildly out of my control in a frantic attempt to change the radio channel as quickly as possible.

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Crossroads

Well, that crossroads in my life is rapidly approaching, and to be honest, I’m scared to make a choice. I knew this week was all about change, I just didn’t expect this. How do you know if someone is just being friendly, or if it’s more than that?

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Back to the musing…

So I had another weird thought. It seems that most people are just a collection of stereotypes, in varying proportions. I’d consider myself about 90% stereotypical (in about three types). It’s that 10% that makes me unique. Yes, there’s a bit of overlap between the stereotypes, but they’re distinctive and not everyone who does one thing does another. Also, when I’m in a group of one type of person, that part of me comes closer to the surface…

40% – Gaming geek (Magic cards, video games)
30% – Computer geek (Programming, etc.)
20% – Anime otaku
10% – Other

What are your percentages? Also, do what we consider “interesting” people have less stereotypical parts, or just more parts of different stereotypes?

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Fanimecon is over

So yay, Fanimecon is over. I needed today to decompress, and lucky for me, I get Friday off as well, and half of Thursday as well. I’ll get photos up soon, I took quite a few.

Yay for two-day work weeks!