Mellow

Oct. 10th, 2006 12:04 am
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I'm on my couch and feeling mellow. Part of this is because I have been cleaning lately, and I am greatly calmed by the - well, I suppose it isn't order, really, so much as a moving towards orderliness that fills my apartment. I mean, there's still crap all over the place, but it looks slightly more right than it did yesterday, when it looked a bit more correct than it did the day before that. I have a new system I've been trying, see. If I can keep up the pace I'll describe it, sometime.

The other reason is that for a good while now I've had a real handle on Volity development, consistently setting short-term goals and then meeting them. Pace is enforced by the fact that the three core Volity boys are guaranteed to meet together only once a week, on Monday nights, so when I get to a decision point I can't overcome by myself I just make a note to bring it up Monday, and then move on. Eventually I hit everything I wanted to do that morning, and so I go do something else. I'm in such an in-between mode now, and feel like I have a right to be here. It's nice!

We're shooting to have a soft launch of the revenue system by the end of this month. That's a few weeks slipped past our summertime make-up-a-date deadline, but I'm willing to stand behind this one; we know exactly what needs to be done, and how. The fact that my Volity work-week has been shortened to four days might make this a week later, all told. So be it! It shall get done.
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Friday I got all things straightened out with work setup, I think, in terms of both technology and HR. I know how to submit my invoices, and my workstation PC is now equipped with sudo and VPN access. The sandbox environment purrs along happily, waiting for me to do something. And I will, next Wednesday, the first day of what I expect to be many WedThuFri work-weeks there.

I can drop the coy façade and announce that the company is, o shocker, ITA Software. Due to the NDA - still a novelty for me - I'm going to play it safe and just not blog about the actual stuff I do there. It isn't all that interesting anyway. I reserve the right to decouple something I learned about programming or design from the reason of why I learned it, and write about that.

I will feel free to write about stuff besides actual work at work, too. Started to do that here but I'll save it for later.

And, yes, I billed for the time I did spend there this past week, and will submit my first invoice on Tuesday. I will walk there. It is a nice walk!



Today switched back to Volity time and I made good use of it, building the subscription-purchase webpage. Then I built a filing cabinet that's been in a flat-pack box in the kitchen for 10 months while watching a lot of TV and attempting to import all the video from Wednesday's Gameshelf shoot. My camera is gunked up, or something; lots of read errors that have nothing to do with the tape. I gotta learn how to clean it. (Tried just blowing on it. Not enough.)

My major Volity for tomorrow is to write a refunds policy (we have one sketched out, after lots of thought and discussion) and then set up a Google Checkout account. All hail Google



The deposit I mailed last Friday hasn't posted yet, but the one I mailed the next day has. Sadly, it was 5 percent the size of the earlier one. Checks continue to bounce; I'm in deep trouble. I will need to pull the lever on my credit card that squirts money into my bank account at a 982823% interest rate. Actually I would have done it already but I can't figure out how it do it on the MBNA website (maybe you can't, I dunno) so I'll have to talk to human on the phone about it and I hate that so I haven't yet.

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