Life is better

Talked to my manager, who said his first six months were painful because of not having a clear coding project to work on
Got a clear coding project to work on
Happy for Jason
Miriam and I made some friends at church
Will be moving to third floor of 41 instead of second; the view is of trees instead [...]

Stuff I elided from my snippets this week

Remembered that I don’t much like computer security work–that’s why I was going to school for a degree in physics instead of trying to get back into security
Got angry at Jason for leaving me here to play with his cars
Alma talked to me about looking lonely; hopefully that’ll improve in the shuffle after the move [...]

stay@google.com

I’ve accepted a job at Google in their Applied Security team. We’ll be moving at the end of March, when the quarter is over. I don’t know if my first choice of email address above will be the one I get, but I can’t imagine someone else has it. My second and [...]

Finals finished

Complex analysis went stunningly well–I got a 95% on the midterm, far better than the guy whose notes I studied! The final was iffy up to the last few minutes when I had a couple breakthroughs (I think.)
I was dreading real analysis, though; I got a 50% on the midterm and hadn’t understood much [...]

Thwoosh!

I spent yesterday morning building a water rocket with Martin for Aidan’s birthday present. It was based on a vague memory of one Dad made years ago.
I drilled a hole in a plank deep enough for an inverted 2-liter bottle to go up to the rim around the neck. (Marty sat on the [...]