Day 11.

The company I work for now, before I started here, acquired a second system, that does other trading things. It's pretty decent, and there is use and a market to keep the two systems. The back end of the system we acquired however, is terrible so they've been trying to integrate the two since we got it. This is not easy and has since gone well over any initial estimated time table. Anyway the bosses decided we were going into rush full out work mode. We worked all last weekend, well both days anyway and are supposed to do so again this weekend. It sucks.

I was supposed to work last weekend anyway at the cubs convention, so I missed out on most of that. A bright note was that having to get up anyway at an unnatural hour on a Sunday (ie 7ish when a natural time to wake up on a day of is noonish) I was awake in time to go to my local target and wait in line to purchase a Wii. I wasn't able to get extra Remotes or numchucks, but still I got one. Awesome.

Anyway back to work, well not literally but as a subject of conversation. Initially I was just doing support/operations stuff. Then I got some little basic operational tools to develop. An app to get stuff into the system and whatnot. Then I started making a monitoring app to keep track of who was logged on and that all the appropriate systems were connected and functional and whatnot, and then I got moved to working on rewriting one of the client applications. It's different, and a little scary, I worked on the client App for Risk but I never had to build one. This isnt' even from scratch I pretty much copied the design from the exisiting device but it's overly complicated and it's much easier to rebuild then to try and learn how it works and then retrofit it to the new system.. Either way its a step in the right direction and will hopefully give me some leverage for some stuff after we finish the project up.

Oh yeah Super Bowl. I was four last time we went to the Super Bowl. We were planning on renting an RV and road tripping down there to tailgate. They banned tailgating. Gay. It works out as I would most likely be here anyway, but yeah, it woulda been a hell of a trip. Instead we're talking about renting out a hall/bar or something but still.. road trips in RVs sounds like a blast. Either way, Super Bowl.

The government is cracking down on online poker. It sucks, and really is very shortsighted as it would seem it would be a great source of taxable income, like the lottery and so forth. That's probably how it'll end up working too but in the mean time it sucks. Maybe one of these days I'll take a ride out to the boat to get my fix. hmm

TJ pretty much decided he doesn't want to rent anymore and plans to move back home and start looking for places at the end of our lease. That's pretty much the last thing I want to do, move back home that is, so It looks like I'm in the market for a one bedroom/studio, or perhaps a roommate. I'd probably have to move either north a bit more, west more towards the blue line, or to the south side (least interesting). Probably north is the way to go. still have a few months to figure it out.