rone | it's a goddamned christmas miracle

And here you thought i'd go all December without updating my journal...

After about two months and a half into the job, i am enjoying it a fair amount. One of the big pluses is that my group has as many women as men in it, and i've been enjoying working with them a lot (more so than the men, who are, in turn, an impatient pessimist, a taciturn geek, and a French Canadian). The graveyard shift has been a bit tough on me (although swing shift is worse, because i don't get to see Kim at all except on the weekend) but it's also nice and quiet, which gives me time to analyze our procedures and processes, which are often, er, questionable. Right now i'm working our holiday shift, where each of us works 3 or 4 12-hour shifts over the last two weeks of December, which leaves a lot of free time. It's not a bad arrangement.

Doing NOC work is certainly a bit of a step down for me, but at the same time, the NOC needs a lot of work and that's why they're hiring experienced people to do that work. We got a new director about a month ago, and a new manager two weeks ago, and so far i like what they're doing and the questions they're asking. In addition, two of my ex-bosses from Macromedia are in the sysadmin group (one as a sysadmin and the other as his boss's boss) and we're in the same headspace regarding getting the job done right. So i'm feeling fairly optimistic about getting some good changes implemented in the next six months.