Delayed Monday.

It may be Tuesday but it feels waaaay Monday to me. The nice long weekend did help in getting my stress levels down and all, but they're going back up at the thought of starting my 3rd week of work, even if its a short week. Ah well, this will pass. The stress is mainly just from trying to absorb so much so fast. My main plan for this week is to absorb 1500 or so pages of documentation and root around in the code base to see how similar problems to the ones I face were handled in the past. I figure there should be a certain amount of agreement on methods, provided the already existing methods aren't brain dead...

Replacements.

I don't know if I mentioned it here, but I lost my Intel ID badge. That's right, the thing I spent a full week going through the paperwork to get, and I had it less than 4 days before I somehow lost it. It vanished sometime between Thursday evening when I left work and Friday morning when I tried to reenter work without it.

In that interval I had ridden in a car, gone to a Korean BBQ, had coffee in a coffee shop, gone to my hotel room, eaten in the hotel breakfast room, and had ridden on a bus. Over the long weekend I managed to check all of those places for a lost ID badge but by this morning it was clear that it was gone for good.

So, I bit the bullet and told folks today that I needed a replacement. I was driven back to the badge office and in under two minutes they had invalidated the old one and issued me a new one. Had I realized it would be that easy I might not have been so diligent in looking for the missing one!