Journal Entry: October 29, 2001
As always, I have a ton of news since I last wrote.
First off, I lived through my first week on the job. My title is QA Engineering Manager and I guess they liked me so much on my first day that they gave me a second group to manage on Day #2. So now I’m overseeing two software QA teams, and I’ve got a lot to learn about the company’s products and related technology and people and everything else! Everyone’s great and I’m very excited and happy to be at Voyant.
Last week, I upgraded my home PC called Sponge to Windows XP. So far, I’m very happy with it. It hasn’t crashed once, which is much better than Windows ME. Unfortunately, XP wasn’t compatible with my sound card, my tape backup drive, or my printer. So, I bought a new sound card, took out the tape drive and am just doing archives to a secondary hard drive, and traded printers with Beth. Now it’s running smoothly and everything’s happy. Oh, I had to upgrade my Norton SystemWorks to the latest version, too. Version 2001 wasn’t XP compatible for 2002 is.
I still haven’t made any progress on writing a travel log about my vacation, but I will. Beth and I watched a few episodes of Sex and the City on DVD over the weekend. It’s a famous show that we never saw because we didn’t have HBO until recently. It’s fairly funny. I can’t say it’s my favorite TV program, but it’s nice to have a 30 minute TV show without commercials.
Yesterday (Sunday the 28th) my Ultimate Frisbee team played our next to last game of the regular season. We won easily against the juniors team, made of a bunch of teenagers who are all in the same church group. One more game, which should be a bit tougher, and then the tournament!
Finally, on Friday (the 26th) as I was driving home from work, I got in the first auto accident of my whole life. Some 16 year old kid borrowing his brother’s sports car rear-ended me at a stop light at Sheridan and 120th. I didn’t call the police, thinking it would be nice to cut the poor kid some slack, but now I’m regretting it, because he denies responsibility for causing the accident. Having a police report would probably be a good thing, although I can’t imagine how the insurance company or a court would find that I caused the accident, since I think they almost always consider the rear-ender to be at blame over the rear-endee. Luckily nobody was hurt. My own suspicion is that the boy was driving too fast for conditions, paying only marginal attention, and trying to impress his girlfriend in the passenger seat with how fast his brother’s car could go in rush hour traffic. We’ll see how it goes with the insurance investigators.