18 Oct 2000 dancer   » (Journeyer)

Travelogue - Day 11 - Monday

Wandered into the office fairly early. Found a task waiting in my mailbox, and got code cut for it before half the dev team wandered in around 11. Fun little job, although there are interesting ramifications about it that continue to appear in email, as different divisions ask questions. Won myself a shiny new task (well, two) to do before the feature-freeze on Tuesday.

Stayed for dinner (curry), then wandered back to the hotel. My legs were sore, which set me limping a little. Noticed at that point that I haven't been limping for about three weeks! None of that stiff-legged, lock-kneed staggering about that plagued me for more than a year at the old job. Hmmmm.

Travelogue - Day 12 - Tuesday

I am getting so much rest, it's amazing. Still dealing with the respiratory infection, but it's minor. Life continues at a very relaxed sort of pace.

Lunch at the office was burritos, which weighed in at about a kilogram each. Whew. The place has multiple kitchens, coin-free vending machines serving chips, chocolate, meat-sticks and other junk delights, drinks-fridges, assorted coffee machines (Keurigs, which are a thing of beauty all on their own. Gotta get me one of those...), oatmeal, boiled sweets, sachets of nurofen, sachets of multivitamins, dozens of types of tea, instant noodles, the list goes on. Plus doughnuts, lunches and dinners served on regular schedules. Mmmmm. HR people come around and hand out toys periodically. (A coincidental issue...the company colours are the same as the last three companies I worked at. Orange, blue, and white. Makes life easier...thankfully, they've avoided actually decorating in them, for a change)

Task one completed in good order (though not without two very minor hitches). Task two turned out to be impractical for technical issues. We wouldn't have had working code before the feature freeze.

Caught up with the elusive Marty for a chat today, and talked through a few things that needed talking through. Looks like I'll be back here four or five times per year, unless the travelling starts to wear on me. I also got a picture of some of the new development that we're working on, parts of which I'll get to do work on. Talk about reinventing the web for content-providers. This stuff rocks.

At the end of the day, lots of code got committed. Feature freeze. Now it's testing and debugging it until November. The next three days will be reviews and test-planning meetings mostly. Then Saturday, I'm back off to Melbourne.

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