As expected, I spent most of today removing Ubuntu from my Surface Pro and reinstalling Windows. I’m currently downloading the Windows 10 update for it – which is what I was trying to accomplish when everything went balls up last year. Hopefully it will work this time. I’m typing this on the SP, which has Windows 8 installed currently, and it’s just so much better than Linux. I try. I really do. But I’m still a child of Microsoft.
I finally got a little bit of training regarding the work that I’m supposed to be doing in Annapolis beginning next Sunday. One interesting li’l tidbit that came up during said training: Book flights 21 days in advance. Had I been planning on flying, that would have been a good thing to know prior to 7 days before leaving, huh? I’m also a bit ticked that travel expenses are reimbursed, rather than put on a corporate card, but maybe I got spoiled at BS and ATT. Wonder what would happen if I just say, “Hey, I can’t afford to pay for this up front. Sorry.”
Anyway, I still haven’t been able to get in touch with the project manager or the team lead for this little trip, so it’s going to be interesting. I don’t know who the client is, what the address is, if there’s a preferred hotel….this is all stuff that I was supposed to have been told three or four weeks ago. I was talking to Jenny about this stuff today, and I honestly think the X company has just grown too fast this year. They’ve got people in middle management who don’t know how to manage. Two months ago, they were doing network installations. Today, they’re supposed to be managing projects with multiple new people – like me – who haven’t been given any real training. It’s not frustrating. It’s not frightening. It’s just annoying. Trying to keep a good public attitude, but it gets tough.
Weather-wise, it has been ridiculously hot for the past couple of weeks. I actually mowed the lawn in the dark last week because I just couldn’t stand the thought of doing it when I first go home from work. Too hot. That’s also been cutting down on my morning walks, as I’d rather just go back to bed at 5:20 AM instead of walking for an hour in a 95-degree sauna. Not going out every day has started to play a bit of hell on my feet, as when I do go out, they tend to hurt. Went through the same thing a few years ago.
I’ve been toying with the idea of starting a post on this thing that will be updated frequently – like every day – with just a “what I did today” type of thing, while still reserving the right to compose longer things every week or two. I’m not sure how that would work, which is why I haven’t tried it so far.
That’s about enough for today. Not much new in my life, as you can tell. Still not satisfied with the employment situation, still wondering how and when I can just retire…still wondering what the big picture of my life is, to be honest. Or if there is one. And, if so, do I really care about it all that much? Maybe THIS is the real mid-life crisis, and that little mental vibration I had a few years ago was nothing. It felt more urgent then. Now, it’s just…eh.
Tally-ho and all that. My next post will probably be from Maryland.