A Milestone! The first post during lunch at my new job.
But first a random thought: Maybe squirting the ranch dressing right into the pile of soggy onion-rings a few minutes ago wasn’t such a good idea. I hope I have enough napkins for this lunch.
I want to give you the run-down of my job so far, because I’ve had little substance lately in my posts.
I like my boss. Good guy. Really reminds me of Pete actually. Similar voice, and use of tone, as well as similar use of hands while talking.
The guy training me is not a degreed EE, but a guy who worked his way up from technician. He is great, and has been really helping me. Which is good, because I’m freaking lost most of the time around here. There are like a million steps to change anything, and I’ve already been assigned to redesign something fairly large in our systems, so it is really great that they are working hard with me to make sure I’m trained and understand the processes around here. I really like getting the perspective of really experienced people. I enjoy the hands-on style of thinking and teaching.
There is free pop in the break room. That rocks. They have Mt. Dew…that rocks harder.
Today is less overwhelming than most so far. I think it is because I’ve been working a little more on my own on a starter-style project, and I’m almost done. Hopefully after a few months I’ll have acclimated to the pace around here, but for now I get my head so full of information each day I go home with a mild headache, checking my ears for leakage.
Also, I really enjoyed the conference last week. God said some profound things to me during the last worship session, and I got lots of really good prayer, and did some praying for other people as well. I should write about some of the stuff God told me, because it is interesting, but it is mostly about my family, so it would be involved and this post would go on forever…so I’ll save that. Also, I thought up some ideas on how to more effectively run the tech stuff at church…ways that I think will help get more people involved. I’m still praying for a way to use tech for evangelism….God has been fairly silent about that so far.
I had some good beer in Chicago, and I had some good beer in Madsion (a particularly good stout in Madison). But the Town Hall and Avery Brewery have spoiled me. No longer is a “good” beer acceptable when there excellent beer a mile from my house. I hope I can visit the Avery brewery sometime. That would be an excellent Phi Beta Nu reunion / roadtrip if that could ever happen.
Well, back to work, short lunches and long hours mean less cluelessness around here.