4 Weeks In

Can you believe it? I've been here for almost 4 weeks! Unreal.

So yeah, as you've probably guessed, I've gotten myself a computer! Ended up going with a Gateway laptop... P4 @ 3.06GHz, 1024Mb DDR Ram, 100GB HD @4200rpm... definitely a sweet machine (compared to my poor old 6Gb thinkpad celeron 550 - but hey... she got me though school, so I can't knock it!).

Life is pretty good right now. Work is going great. I'm getting lots of responsibility and lots of challenge, so that's cool. Plus, as I touched on in the previous post, I am one of 3 new engineers with the company. Brad started in Sept, Jaime started in Dec (she interviewed against me and they ended up giving us BOTH a job), and of course I started in Jan. So that's pretty sweet cause I feel like I've got a few people to realate to and to help me out with "newbie" issues. Plus they're my age, so they're cool to hang out with too. That's good news, because for the time being Jaime and I are sharing an office. I'm cool with that tho, because she's an awesome girl and always good for a laugh or to bounce an idea off of.

Actually, Jaime and some of her friends from Ottawa are coming in to party in the Hammer tonight... so I'm looking forward to that, as it will actually be my first real night out partying in my new city. Should be good times for sure.

I still feel like I've essentially been too busy to miss home. That might sound kind of harsh, but it really is the truth. Between long hours at work, shopping for things for the apartment, driving around in my car, and weekend road trips to friends' places in other cities, I really have been flat out. It's all good tho, cause I've got my phone all set up now, so I get to talk to the fam every few days or so (which, for anyone who knows me well, is pretty freqent for me). I do miss Newfoundland like crazy, but I'm kind of looking at like this: I'm here now. So instead of spending my time missing the days of old, I'm going to spend my time making the days of new as kickass as possible. That's a line from the book of Reid.

So yeah... it's good to be back in the land of the living (i.e. the internet). I should now be much more frequent with my posts! (and the crowd goes wild).

Until next time...
Reid