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Life goes well
May. 8th, 2004 04:47 pmYeah, I've been busy since I got a job.
Thursday of last week, I finished cleaning up the back room, putting things back into the back and neatening them up. There's still a bit of visible soap showing on the tile - I'm not an expert at scrubbing floors - but it's alright and we'll wash it off sooner or later. But now the back door is useable again, and the carpentry and yard stuff is in the shed, where it belongs.
Friday I went off with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mishalak, and we had lunch at Kokoro's (a Japanese fast food chain here in Denver), following it up with a visit to a used bookstore, a used DVD/CD store, and then a pause to enjoy Hellboy. I'd seen it before, but he hadn't, and we agreed that it was a good fun movie. We also agreed that a matinee price of $7.00 was rediculous, but what are you going to do? After that it was a trip by Toys R' Us where I picked up some Transformer BTR building sets that were on rediculous sale - $10 for the big Megatron set? Whoa. It's a shame, really. If the sets actually *transformed* instead of needing to be unbuilt and rebuilt to become robots, they'd probaly have sold much better. The plastic quality is really good on the sets - feeling better than Mega Blox's and just about as nice as LEGO. I also grabbed a small International Space Station set from Lego - very small scale.
My new job's a lot of fun. I've been hired as a programmer and a mathematician. It's not a lot of money, and it's only for three months, but it's a fun job. I'm helping to finish a program being built to help run and maintain the paperwork for Denver Concierge, a housecleaning company. They've got a lot of it together, and it's an impressive system. I'm working on the profit analysis end of it - building parts of the system to help calculate how much trouble a certain type of house is to clean, and thus how much should be charged for it. It's been a while since I've worked in that end of statistics (being a gamer means I'm up on the probability end more), but it's a facinating problem, and a really fun group to work with. The only minor problem with the job is that we're working with VB.NET instead of C#, but hey - it's all .NET experience in the end, and it's good work with form elements. (I adore the way they changed the combo box for .NET, by the way.)
Today we went out garage saling, and found a bunch of cool stuff. But the coolest of the cool is an entire bedroom set and mattress that we're picking up for a song - just $250. Anyone in the Denver area free Tuesday night, please drop me a line if you can help with a short moving job... and especially if you've got a truck for it!
Life goes well. I'm happy.
Thursday of last week, I finished cleaning up the back room, putting things back into the back and neatening them up. There's still a bit of visible soap showing on the tile - I'm not an expert at scrubbing floors - but it's alright and we'll wash it off sooner or later. But now the back door is useable again, and the carpentry and yard stuff is in the shed, where it belongs.
Friday I went off with
mishalak, and we had lunch at Kokoro's (a Japanese fast food chain here in Denver), following it up with a visit to a used bookstore, a used DVD/CD store, and then a pause to enjoy Hellboy. I'd seen it before, but he hadn't, and we agreed that it was a good fun movie. We also agreed that a matinee price of $7.00 was rediculous, but what are you going to do? After that it was a trip by Toys R' Us where I picked up some Transformer BTR building sets that were on rediculous sale - $10 for the big Megatron set? Whoa. It's a shame, really. If the sets actually *transformed* instead of needing to be unbuilt and rebuilt to become robots, they'd probaly have sold much better. The plastic quality is really good on the sets - feeling better than Mega Blox's and just about as nice as LEGO. I also grabbed a small International Space Station set from Lego - very small scale.My new job's a lot of fun. I've been hired as a programmer and a mathematician. It's not a lot of money, and it's only for three months, but it's a fun job. I'm helping to finish a program being built to help run and maintain the paperwork for Denver Concierge, a housecleaning company. They've got a lot of it together, and it's an impressive system. I'm working on the profit analysis end of it - building parts of the system to help calculate how much trouble a certain type of house is to clean, and thus how much should be charged for it. It's been a while since I've worked in that end of statistics (being a gamer means I'm up on the probability end more), but it's a facinating problem, and a really fun group to work with. The only minor problem with the job is that we're working with VB.NET instead of C#, but hey - it's all .NET experience in the end, and it's good work with form elements. (I adore the way they changed the combo box for .NET, by the way.)
Today we went out garage saling, and found a bunch of cool stuff. But the coolest of the cool is an entire bedroom set and mattress that we're picking up for a song - just $250. Anyone in the Denver area free Tuesday night, please drop me a line if you can help with a short moving job... and especially if you've got a truck for it!
Life goes well. I'm happy.
