TTK Ciar's Journal: Minor Life Notes

Minor Life Notes, 2006-01-07

My mouth is finally starting to heal up, again, after this, the third surgery in two months .. my diet is still mostly soup and eggs, and I'm still popping ibuprofen every six hours, but at least I'm not waking up early in the morning in agony anymore.

As of Friday, I was still spending ten hours a day at the office trying to do three people's jobs in the Collections Department of The Archive, and doing it somewhat poorly as a result. A new hire starts this Monday, though, dedicated to QA and technical user support, which is terrific. I'm hoping that with a little training, she'll be able to take a large load off my shoulders. Also, John Berry is back as Director of Operations, which means I get to perform some tasks for the Data Repository group again (which is really the job I signed on to do, and what I want to spend more of my hours doing). I'm really glad he's back.

One of the consequences of the new hire coming in is that I had to pack up some of my personal machines which I had stashed in the Collections office and take them home. Fungus, Dusty, Rooikat, and Dragon all got taped up and tucked into the closet. I kept hoping to have some time to work with them at the office, but aside from running Fungus for a couple of months as a secondary archival storage box, and firing up Rooikat a couple of times, they remained neglected.

-- TTK

just wanted to comment

[dknight]

I really enjoy reading about your work with The Archive. I'm very interested in what they do (I'm a major data packrat myself) and hope someday I'll get a gig with a place like that. Hope your new help makes things easier!