Why is that, no matter where I work, I always end up freezing to
death? At Cadence it was a constant battle with the Usability Lab
people to keep the temperature reasonable; here at WorldSite it seems
that the facilities people delight in coming by twice a day to turn the
thermostat to 'frigid'. Sigh.
My day has been productive, if unexciting. I successfully scheduled
dinner at La Fondue this weekend, as I'll be up in Mountain View seeing
people. I also set up my notify list (at long last!), and finished my
log-rotation script so that the plethora of logfiles sitting on the
WorldSite webservers can be discreetly moved to the machine with a big
disk and then dumped to tape. I'm still having to move large chunks of
logs around by hand, but once I finish with them the script will do it
automagically, ever-after. Good to know I'm leaving my mark.
My jobhunt continues. Taos is doing a technical re-screen by phone
tomorrow afternoon to see if they want me back. I'm not really
worried, but there's a niggling fear that they're going to ask me the
questions they always ask me, like 'Have you ever set up
NIS?'. And once again I'll say 'No, but I'm sure I could do it if
given the opportunity.' -- and once again they won't believe me.
Except, darnit, this time they'd best believe me; I'd never upgraded
sendmail nor installed & configured majordomo before WorldSite, but I
was perfectly competent to do so. Perhaps I'll point this out if
they're difficult.
Taos isn't my first choice of job, anyway. I'm not sure I want to play
contracting roulette for another few years, even for the huge amounts
of money they're likely to give me. On the other hand, Taos is
doing something, whereas all my other leads seem stalled.
I had to write an official resignation letter today. Kirby suggested
the following:
As winter fades into spring, my idle thoughts turn to the eternal
quest for things of beauty. Thus, you must understand my burning need
to get the hell out of LA as soon as possible.
Which is more or less what I said, actually, except I threw in lots
of stuff about how great WorldSite is. I wouldn't want them to think
I hate them.
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