I have ‘low side’ access at work again, though hopefully I won’t need it to keep my mind occupied (meaning posts might not increase in frequency). Work is still ‘promising’ (as opposed to actual), though I am told that as of tomorrow I will get my own hardware on which to play. I did amuse myself a bit (and try to re-establish my coding skills) by writing a multi-threaded high-speed in-memory logger that will (attempt) to write out the log on program termination (by catching signals). It works with control-c; I am not sure how else to test it.
Anyway, I have a semi-stable place to work now. I have been able to keep my half-office until I get kicked out (my supervisor doesn’t ‘own’ the office), so perhaps months and knowing how bureaucracy works, maybe even years. Other than the commute home (the commute to work is pretty painless as I leave when most of the lights are still blinking), this is a pretty ideal situation, so I am going to try to claw on it for as long as possible.
There is little else to report. We have hired a guy (team of two, actually) to complete the walls around our pool since it seems the rate of the walls collapsing is faster than our efforts to build the walls. He comes highly recommended and works pretty cheap (really cheap compared to inside the ‘rat hole’ of the DC metro area) and literally lives right around the corner (of course, out there in the country that means a mile or so away). If he works out well on this project we might use him a bit more (though we can only afford a bit more).
I am to talk with my patent lawyer today about the status of my (vanity) patent, hopefully there is some progress being made.
Howzabout this weather? Teens at the beginning of the week and 70’s in the middle, then back to 20’s at the end of the week. Must be the end of the world, eh?
