We recently finished moving to Grand Rapids... HUGOMORE42 It took a few weeks, and we're very glad to be done. You don't realize how much crap you have until you have to move it all. Thanks to everybody who gave us a hand, it would have taken forever without you. We like the new place for the most part. It's a quiet complex, and we have lots of room. The downsides are mostly little things, such as the kitchen cupboards and drawers all being narrower, which creates a surprising amount of trouble.
It has been a while since my last update, so here it is... HUGOMORE42 I've gotten past the "reading at my desk stage" at Smiths, and have mostly taken over (with ongoing help from my predecessor) as our project's Code Librarian. That means I take others' changes to the application, pull them together, build it, and test to make sure there aren't problems. I'm also putting part of my time toward the part of the application that controls the radios, but there hasn't been much time for that lately.
I'm in the middle of my first week at Smiths. So far it has been pretty unglamorous, involving reading a bunch of acronym-filled technical documents. A lot like grad school that way really, but with less equations and more coffee. The plan is to ease into more programming-related stuff once I’ve learned the ropes, since the project is gigantic.
I recently accepted a position at Smiths Aerospace. HUGOMORE42 It will mean a bit of a commute for a while, but they're on the east side of Grand Rapids so it's not too bad. I think we'll be looking to move closer eventually. The job will involve working on some of the programs inside a component of C-130’s. For a majority of the last five years I’ve been working with databases and web programming, and a good portion of that was healthcare-related.
Pictures should now be up of Aaron's birthday and of this Saturday's poker game. HUGOMORE42 Also, our webspace was rapidly filling, so we had to reduce the size of the pictures. Some of the older albums are now archived too. Thanks to everybody who came for poker night. It was a lot of fun. Gonzo and Mark were well ahead when we stopped playing, so congratulations guys. Everybody else, you know who to aim for next time :)
Here's an update as to what's going on with us at the moment...
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Having graduated in December, I'm still looking around for a job. I applied to several places, and I'm working through the process and waiting to hear back. In the meantime I'm finishing up some projects with the Geography Department at MSU, and trying to make sure the handoff to other programmers goes smoothly.
