I'm just back from lunch with Chrisber, cheerful and filled with yummy Chinese food. And they're restocking the kitchen! I went by to get a Coke and noticed Lea, our wonderful front desk person, filling a plastic jar with a bag of Reeses minatures. Yum! I said, and stole a handful. They're sitting beside me now, but I'm trying valiantly not to eat them until I'm actually a little hungry again.

I'd meant to bring in the 2nd & 3rd Escaflowne soundtracks today, but I forgot. I also forgot to bring in my three new Sailor Moon CDs, which is a pity since two of them are ones I've been trying to find for a while. Some guy put like a dozen CDs on eBay, and I managed to win the soundtrack from the first musical (interesting but not very hard to find), the choral album (hard to find, and I liked the two tracks from it I've heard), and the SuperS bgm CD, which I've been wanting forever. SuperS is probably my least favourite season of Sailor Moon, but the Amazon Trio music is really fantastic.

All this writing about CDs sent me looking for music. I wanted to listen to Robert Miles, but as with most of my CDs that one is still at home. Instead I've settled on my 80's trance tribute album, which every time I listen to it reminds me that I want to find & listen to more trance. It's perfect programming music.

Wow. Lots of work just happened all at once, sort of surprisingly. Azar (QA person) came to me to ask about a bug I'd fixed, and I quickly realised that it hadn't made it into the build he was testing because we have no build schedule for the project I'm working on because it's an internal tool, and that combined with a conversation I had with Lee yesterday caused me to go to David (our incredibly interesting CM guy) and say "How do I make this project have a real schedule?". Conversations ensued, and I appear to have extremely happied my manager (Simeon) by telling him that I'd like to make this happen. It's all turning out nice and I feel very good about myself, but it's also feeling weird to get rewarded for taking on work... I don't know. I guess it says something about my last job that I'm so tentative about taking the initiative. It's not that I was expecting anyone to be disapproving, exactly, but I think I was expecting Simeon to feel like I was stepping on his toes someone by wanting to do this sort of project-planning stuff, even on such a minor level. Would that have actually been true at my last job? Hmn. Hard to say.

I meant to catch up more today, but it's just turned six and I'd like to get home while it's still light (as I failed to do last night) so I can finally wreak my vengeance on the trumpet vine that's trying to strangle our plum tree. Granted, the bright red flowers on the vine are beautiful... but they can be beautiful along the top of the fence instead, darnit.