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Cheeky Bastard

Posted by on October 13, 2008 3 comments

I hate people.

Who drive, when I am driving.  Seriously stay off the road.  You suck at driving.  Being in the left lane does not make you cool.  Sorry, but I thought you should know.

Fall is a terrible time in my life now.  It’s championship of musical chairs and I am deaf.  (Don’t ask how I got there in the first place.  Blame the French judge.)  In no particular order (ul vs ol), here are the chairs:

  • Fallout 3
  • Midnight Club: Los Angeles
  • Saints Row 2
  • Fable 2
  • Far Cry 2
  • Quantum of Solace (Think Goldeneye in a COD4 engine)
  • Shaun White Snowboarding
  • Need for Speed Undercover

In addition I’ve been having issues with my spanking new computer.  I get an ATIKMDAG crash/recover when playing World of Warcraft.  It’s fairly annoying and I’ve tried everything short of RMAing stuff.  I’ve decided to just live with it and hope new drivers will fix the issue.  Very naive.  I should RMA the card before it’s too late.  Only issue is that WoW is the only application (including desktop) to cause the issue.  I did get the issue on the desktop when I went to the Cat 10 beta drivers.  That means very little to me considering they are beta drivers.  I have a feeling my sound card may be to blame.  The crashes seem to happen when new sounds or spell effects fire off.  Either graphics or sound related in my book.  (The card is definitely not underpowered.  I’ve got a 4870.  I could run 4 sessions of WoW and still be fine.)

iPhone has worked well since I traded in the POS one for this new one.

New Jack’s Manequin album is out: The Glass Passenger.  Pretty darn good.  My favorite track is American Love.  It’s got some kind of poppy 80s like beat to it that I love.

The wonderful new car broke 2000 miles today.  It received a chip in the windshield about a week ago.  I let a semi merge in front of me, being nice and not 1 second later up comes a rock.  That was a bad morning.

Back to the waterfall of work.  If anyone needs help with Hyperion Financial Management, Data Quality Management or Financial Reports, I’m available.  At the discount rate of $250 an hour plus expenses.

Wish me luck as I try to maintain my youth while I dive into the maw of adulthood.

If I seem a bit down, it’s because it’s near midnight and I’m doing work and not reading, playing games or sleeping.

Training in Connecticut

Posted by on July 16, 2008 No comments

Another week spent training has come to an end.  This time the training was much more specific and tailored towards what I will be doing for the next year or so.

I was training at Oracle University and as such was the only Accenture person in my small training group of 5 people.  The training went really well.  I managed to get ahead of the class and finish all the activities a full day and a half ahead of schedule.  This allowed for me to get a “review” session.  I found that this better reinforced the knowledge that I had gained in the class.

This means that I will be starting at Best Buy this Monday and be there for a good 9 months.  By the end I should be an expert in Hyperion.

This trip was my first experience traveling completely alone both ways.  Also my first experience renting a car and checking into a hotel for myself.  I was able to navigate my way around the New York and Connecticut road ways.  My initiation occurred around midnight after a day of traveling.  In my rented ’08 Eclipse it was a rather interesting experience.  The Eclipse drives well enough, but one has very limited visibility.  EZ-Pass is also the only way to deal with toll roads.  Wow!  Amazingly easy!

Downtown Stamford was pretty cool.  I’ve never seen a Target in a downtown environment.  There were elevators between floors and the first 2 floors were parking only.  Definitely different from the way suburbs have their stores laid out.

Most of my free time was spent in my hotel room just watching TV and relaxing.  There really wasn’t much to see or down in Stamford.  At least, nothing was open when I had free time.  The food was good in the surrounding area and in the Hotel.

Pretty uneventful week (and that is just fine with me), but certainly gained a good amount of knowledge.  Now it’s just time to apply that knowledge on the job site.