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Tested, Not Found Wanting
Oct. 17th, 2001 02:45 pmWell, I just got out of that Java test I was so worried about last night. I think I did all right; most of the non-code answers I knew or could figure out; most of the code I was able to do easily enough. A couple of the things puzzled me a bit, but I just tried my best and hopefully will get partial credit there at least. I'm thinking I've probably got a high B or a low A in the test...low B at worst. (Yeah, just watch me come back in Friday and find I got a C minus.)
At the moment, I'm waiting in the classroom downstairs where one of my project groups meet, in case they decide to show up at our traditional 3:00 meeting time. I'm not sure whether we were supposed to meet today or not, but I figure I'd better be here for just in case. Wouldn't do to seem like I'm not at least trying to keep up my end of things, when it's such a complicated project.
This morning, I woke up after a nice, refreshing night of sleep (though with a few odd dreams which I couldn't remember much after I woke up). Spent a little too much time browsing the Internet, hurriedly dashed to work (calling the Sonic on the way so they'd have my chocolate Dr. Pepper waiting when I pulled through), and spent a couple of hours in concert with one of the co-workers, helping her find certain information in the census that she needed--or, more correctly, our boss needed. Installed a small bubble-jet printer on the machine (which necessitated visiting Canon's website to download the drivers), set it to monochrome (incidentally correcting a pet peeve of hers, how the computer would complain at her that there wasn't a color cartridge installed every time she tried to print something--bleah, stupid Windows. If you're going to pop up an error box, you should at least put a "click here to change your printer properties" button in it instead of leaving the poor user totally mystified), and scoured the Census website for the necessary data. She was very satisfied with my work, and with the other things I was able to dig up on the Internet. It left me feeling a little puzzled--I mean, the sorts of things I was doing were easy by my definition. I guess it just sort of serves to emphasize that different people have different areas of expertise; some of the things our boss does mystify me, but I think he knows even less about computers than she.
After that, I installed Guidescope on her laptop, and she was quite pleased. She hadn't even known it was possible to block ads, and felt that would speed her browsing up a great deal--especially on the dialup from home. I also got Internet Explorer 5.5 started downloading to her system over the slowish T1 line they have at that office. We also talked a bit about viruses (one had apparently hit the workplace the day before) and voice-recognition software (for the boss, whose handwriting is horrible).
It also apparently came out that my job will not be an every day sort of thing, but more when they need me. On the one hand, I do like having the extra free time, but on the other this worries me a little. After all, I reduced my K-Mart work time thinking that this job would more than make up for that, and I'd need the additional free time in my schedule. On the other hand, I'm still getting paid nearly twice as much for the hours I do spend at this job, so at least I'm no worse off, and I have a bit more extra free time. Well, we'll see what happens.
Now I just have to study for that training course test tomorrow, which I think will be decently easy. (Maybe I should finally get around to buying the textbook...) Then, tomorrow, I go in to work to see about making network adjustments for them. I hope I can do that decently; networking was never my strong suit.
But at least after that test, some of the stress on me will be off, and I'll be able to devote more time to incidentals--the other projects I'm working on, as well as more "me" time.
At the moment, I'm waiting in the classroom downstairs where one of my project groups meet, in case they decide to show up at our traditional 3:00 meeting time. I'm not sure whether we were supposed to meet today or not, but I figure I'd better be here for just in case. Wouldn't do to seem like I'm not at least trying to keep up my end of things, when it's such a complicated project.
This morning, I woke up after a nice, refreshing night of sleep (though with a few odd dreams which I couldn't remember much after I woke up). Spent a little too much time browsing the Internet, hurriedly dashed to work (calling the Sonic on the way so they'd have my chocolate Dr. Pepper waiting when I pulled through), and spent a couple of hours in concert with one of the co-workers, helping her find certain information in the census that she needed--or, more correctly, our boss needed. Installed a small bubble-jet printer on the machine (which necessitated visiting Canon's website to download the drivers), set it to monochrome (incidentally correcting a pet peeve of hers, how the computer would complain at her that there wasn't a color cartridge installed every time she tried to print something--bleah, stupid Windows. If you're going to pop up an error box, you should at least put a "click here to change your printer properties" button in it instead of leaving the poor user totally mystified), and scoured the Census website for the necessary data. She was very satisfied with my work, and with the other things I was able to dig up on the Internet. It left me feeling a little puzzled--I mean, the sorts of things I was doing were easy by my definition. I guess it just sort of serves to emphasize that different people have different areas of expertise; some of the things our boss does mystify me, but I think he knows even less about computers than she.
After that, I installed Guidescope on her laptop, and she was quite pleased. She hadn't even known it was possible to block ads, and felt that would speed her browsing up a great deal--especially on the dialup from home. I also got Internet Explorer 5.5 started downloading to her system over the slowish T1 line they have at that office. We also talked a bit about viruses (one had apparently hit the workplace the day before) and voice-recognition software (for the boss, whose handwriting is horrible).
It also apparently came out that my job will not be an every day sort of thing, but more when they need me. On the one hand, I do like having the extra free time, but on the other this worries me a little. After all, I reduced my K-Mart work time thinking that this job would more than make up for that, and I'd need the additional free time in my schedule. On the other hand, I'm still getting paid nearly twice as much for the hours I do spend at this job, so at least I'm no worse off, and I have a bit more extra free time. Well, we'll see what happens.
Now I just have to study for that training course test tomorrow, which I think will be decently easy. (Maybe I should finally get around to buying the textbook...) Then, tomorrow, I go in to work to see about making network adjustments for them. I hope I can do that decently; networking was never my strong suit.
But at least after that test, some of the stress on me will be off, and I'll be able to devote more time to incidentals--the other projects I'm working on, as well as more "me" time.
