affert's assorted observations

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Monday, August 23, 2004

I get to go back to Taylor soon! :)

Hopefully by this Thursday, I'll be packed up and driving down to Taylor. I'm so looking forward to getting back and seeing all my friends from there again. Especially Ann!

Work's been wrapping up well. Today, we tried running the program on a project that hadn't ever been nationalized before. It came up with translations for a lot of the words. Annette was really happy with how it worked, which counts for a lot, since she'll be the one using it the most. Tomorrow (Tuesday), I'll be preparing for my brownbag. Brownbags are lunch presentations wherein one employee gives a 45 min overview of some topic of interest to the other workers. I'll be giving one on how my program works, what it can/can't do, etc. It'll be my first 'real-world' speach, so that'll be intersting. I don't know how nervous I'll be, since speach class in college isn't very similar. It's a pretty low stress envrionment as far as audiences go, which is nice.

Off to bed for me
~affert

Sunday, August 22, 2004

Weekend

I had a wonderful weekend this week. On Friday, my laptop arrived :) It's a Dell that I bought from 2ndlooklaptops.com. That was exciting.

After work, I went on a personal retreat camping trip. It was a great time to catch up in my relationship with God.
(ok, lunch time. More details later)

~affert

Monday, August 16, 2004

Well, hi.

Hi there. I've finally jumped on the bandwagon and gotten a blog. Right now, I should be working on a paper, so this'll be short.

Today was a good day at work. I was changing the user interface on my dialog verification program. Hopefully I'll be finished by early tomorrow, so I can show John (my boss). He wanted it done by mid-week.

Anyway, I'm off to do more paper-writing.
~affert