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Officially a UW Employee

Yesterday was my first day at work. I have a colorful UW ID, a bus pass, and a stack of benefits paperwork to prove it. I even had my first day of training of the software I’ll be the sysadmin for and it seems pretty easy and intuitive thus far. The hard part is the disease dictionary. I was looking through the list of diseases and was recognizing a good 70% of them… standard things like TB, Meningitis, Hanta Virus, Ebola, Chicken pox, Measles, Polio, the laundry list of STDs, and then a whole bunch of WTFs that just sound ominous. Blastomycosis?

Happy New Year!

Whoopeeeeeeeeeeee! It’s 2007!
Happy New Year to everyone! Hope everyone had a great holiday week.
For me, so far, so good. I got a job offer the Friday before Christmas and I start work at my new job next Monday.

I think I’ll miss (a bit) staying up til well past midnight and sleeping until 9 or 9:30 most mornings. I’ll miss playing with Adam and spending quality time getting to know the inner-workings of the 3 year old mind, and I know he’s going to HATE going back to school next week. I think that going to school will be good for Adam, too. He needs more interaction with kids his own age to run around and play with him.