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Comings and goings
May. 10th, 2002 08:02 amWell, Pat's off to NYC... last night she commented "I feel like I'm going alone to a foreign country" and "this is *a lot* more complicated than a week in Key West" (where I sent her last year for her birthday). The boys will be off to school soon. Nancy arrives this afternoon :-).
At work, I have a new administrative logistics person LB as of two days ago, who is already proving invaluable. Even with the time spent inevitably in orientation and training. I'm still trying to hire a short-term graphics and user-interface programmer, massaging our support contractor to try to expedite the process... time is very short, I have a software design review in 20 days and initial end-to-end tests in five weeks. But yesterday we tried out a different panoramic digital camera, one that costs $20K instead of $2K but has 4x the resolution without having to deal with spherical-mirror distortion. It looked great on the 15' wraparound screens in out VR facility! And thus far I'm getting praise from higher management. And everyone is getting along... being very busy and having new toys helps morale.
Back to school preparation, then housecleaning until Nancy arrives... steam-cleaning the furniture, scrubbing the kitchen and bathrooms. I wish I could get rid of my living-room furniture... it is 12 years old, a bit frayed and overstuffed and I never use the sleeper sofa anyway. Less would be more... and I want dark leather, not brown textured cloth. (covet)
At work, I have a new administrative logistics person LB as of two days ago, who is already proving invaluable. Even with the time spent inevitably in orientation and training. I'm still trying to hire a short-term graphics and user-interface programmer, massaging our support contractor to try to expedite the process... time is very short, I have a software design review in 20 days and initial end-to-end tests in five weeks. But yesterday we tried out a different panoramic digital camera, one that costs $20K instead of $2K but has 4x the resolution without having to deal with spherical-mirror distortion. It looked great on the 15' wraparound screens in out VR facility! And thus far I'm getting praise from higher management. And everyone is getting along... being very busy and having new toys helps morale.
Back to school preparation, then housecleaning until Nancy arrives... steam-cleaning the furniture, scrubbing the kitchen and bathrooms. I wish I could get rid of my living-room furniture... it is 12 years old, a bit frayed and overstuffed and I never use the sleeper sofa anyway. Less would be more... and I want dark leather, not brown textured cloth. (covet)
