Runester

{ Origenally entered on 17-JUNE-2003 }
Today was a good day.

I really wanted to make some progress on this project I’ve been working on, at work. I’m the new guy and feel that I still have something to prove to my team mates and management. They took a bit of a risk on me and I want to prove that I am worth every dollar they spent.

The real break throughs came yesterday evening, I had my head phone on and I was shielded from most of the "grunt work" by my 2nd shift team mates. Concentrating for about six (6) straight hours let me solve three different, hairy, problems and complete the tool I was building. This afternoon when I got to work I showed it to my mgr, he gave me the go-ahead, and then I fired it up and let it run for about four (4) hours. All 2,200 entries got processed, with very little manual introvention.

My mgr was very impressed with the tool, and the rest of the team had a chance to see what I could do. I was well pleased with their reaction.

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I am currently one chapter away from finishing What’s So Great About America? I am looking forward to reading The Power of Full Engagement next.

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I have an opportunity to GM another RPG session with my gaming group this Saturday. It’s been several months, they have probably forgotten a lot and need to be re-introduced to both the rules and the setting. I have been reading articles on how to improve adventure writing and think that I can knock together something really nice by this weekend. It’ll feel good to play again.