Anxiously Awaiting

This weekend I fly out to california for a week of fun and work. Well okay. Mostly work. It kinda snuck up on me–as do most things in life these days. This week marks my fourth week at Danger. Time flies.

Consequently I am now accepting applications and/or bribes regarding people who think they can fit in my suitecase. Lord knows I need the company. I know I’ll be bored out of my flippin mind on that stupid plane; and my manager booked my return flight on Saturday. That means I have all day Friday and most of the day on Saturday to chill and hit some bay area beach action. Sweet.

Sometimes I cruise the Les Paul forum to appease my lust for sexy guitars. Recently a friend of mine found a post of interest to me. All credit for this photo goes to oneorangedrop of the Les Paul forum:

This is an xray of a 2007 BFG. Where’d all the wood go? No wonder that year model is so light. See the original post here.

I recently dropped my video iPod. And by drop I mean watch accelerate to ludicras speed and slam into the concrete as I hold on to the earbuds that were wrapped around it’s meager leather casing (think yo-yo). After the fall the little guy gave me the ipod sad face whenever I turned it on and I could hear the mortally wounded hard drive attempt to seek to load the OS. Luckily it was under warranty. That night I jumped onto Apples support website and filled out a support ticket. The next day my dad called me and reported that a package had arrived from Apple. They had overnighted a box for me to send the poor little guy back to them in–complete with tape. I didn’t even have to buy tape! Exciting.

I didn’t get around to shipping the broken device to them until Wednesday of this week. It took the care center a day to diagnose the problem, and I received a new ipod yesterday–resulting in a turn around time of less than two days. I am unsure if it is a factory refurb or if they fixed my old one. In any event, Apple has the best customer care service I have ever encountered inside a tech company. Good job guys.

Third day on the job.  It’s awesome.  My first assignment?  Install Linux of any flavor on my desktop.  Naturally, I chose SuSE 10.2; and I was able to install Beryl as well.  It will be interesting to see how I adjust from school to work.  I was at work until 6:00pm yesterday, and if you check the timestamp on this post, I’m at work at around 7:30 today.  I like mornings now.  Which is totally opposite to my early years at Tech where every class was scheduled past 1pm.  I must be getting old or something.

Couple of big things coming up, including me finishing those Console vs PC articles that I have been promising for a couple of weeks. For now, hang tight until I make 100% sure that I am graduating.

Second off, those of you coming to my graduation get together–I shan’t call it a party for there shall be much more fun to be had than at a typical party–be at my house in Blairs-Vegas at around 6:00pm on deh Saturday. Check the facebook invite for directions.