Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to chipuni!!!! Have a great one!!!

And belated birdies to filkferengi, donsimpson, jhayman, khaosworks, and filkcook!!!!!! Hope it was wonderful!

Done yesterday (20101020 We)

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It felt like a very long day, from getting up early to having a hard time getting to sleep and getting up for a hot bath, which worked as it usually does. But it was productive, even if slightly frustrating.

And I made the big career decision that's been hanging over me for the last month or so: deciding whether to continue in my current job in a production environment, or go back to R&D at the start of the next fiscal year, next April. I chose to go back -- or rather forward, because the research lab I came out of has a new name now, and a focus more on advanced development and innovation than on research. Since I've always been more of a tinkerer and a toolmaker than either a researcher or a product developer, it was a fairly easy decision.

I'll miss the people, the thrill of working on real products, and the short commute. I won't miss the 9-4 core hours and the software engineering work style. I'm not a software engineer, and I'm not even a terribly productive programmer anymore. I make a better mentor and architect than I do a code monkey.

In other news, my new facehugger mask arrived (and worked well all night), and I helped Chaos set up chaoswolf.org and kat.savitzky.net under her own home directory on Dreamhost, and under git control. Go me.

Some good links up there under the cut.