This Rochester trip has been excellent thus far. My interview yesterday went very well. They still need to interview at least one other candidate who expressed interest in the position, but I expect that they will offer me the job sometime before new years. They started looking for a programmer earlier this week, and the lead programmer who ( Read more... )

I'll be getting a much-needed haircut to dapper myself up tomorrow morning, and then I'm driving down to the Flower City for the Holiday Dinner and a job interview (props to Potter and Jared for the heads-up). I expect to arrive around 6pm on Thursday, weather permitting, and will remain in town at least until Monday. I'm looking forward to ( Read more... )

I'm Back from my Rochester trip, which was a blast. I had originally planned to stay only for the weekend, but stuck around for nearly two weeks until heading home for Thanksgiving with the family. The weather in Rochester was the nicest November I can recall in the Flower City; I spent a lot of time in a short sleeve T-shirt. While in town I ( Read more... )

I'll be heading out early tomorrow for Rochester. Barring car trouble (fingers crossed) I should make it to the Flower City before 5pm. Preliminary schedule is as follows: Dinner w/ Potter and anyone else who's interested Friday night, followed by drinks, probably at the Old Toad; Saturday is the party at Potter's, which I may help cook for. ( Read more... )

I had been planning on visiting Rochester this weekend to mourn our nation's future with friends, but it looks like I'll be stuck in Maine for a while longer. A tire went irreparably flat the other day, and that means I'm limited to only short trips on the donut until I can get four new tires for my AWD Subaru. I might be able to drag shotglass ( Read more... )

I was very wrong on my projections as to who the swell of new voters would back for President; it seems our nation is even more backward and reactionary than I had dared to imagine. This bodes ill for our nation, and the world. I love the United States, and democracy, but this taxes even my patriotism. I am so powerfully dissapointed that I have ( Read more... )

I'm in the boiler room half an hour before the polls open, and looking forward a long day of nothing much exciting. All the data I've anticipated a need for has already been pulled off the server; I don't expect we'll need much of it. I predict Kerry will win, and by a sizable enough margin that I'll be able to leave the boiler room tonight ( Read more... )

Just got off the clock in the Boiler Room in Lewiston. This is the earliest I've ended a workday in weeks. I've never worked so hard on anything before, and I love my job. The rest of the gang is off to a sports bar to watch the game; I'm driving home to catch up on sleep. A hundred hilarious things have happened in the past couple of weeks, ( Read more... )

I've put in two 11-hour days so far this week. Things remain hectic, as a great deal of scrambling is being done now to pave the way for a smoother GOTV effort in the last 2 weeks before the election. It looks like I won't be the only higher-level staffer relocated to Lewiston, so I shouldn't be saddled with any extra administrative duties. ( Read more... )

I whipped up a dessert soup tonight based on a suggestion from Gillian. I've included the recipe for peer review; please feel free to try it and leave me your comments ( Read more... )