Today and all of this week I'm in a training class for my company's flagship product. I took the class one year ago, but since I'd been working on the German product that no one cared about that has absolutely nothing to do with the flagship product, I forgot everything I had learned.

I will say that I'm doing much better than I did in the first training class. My geek factor has increased substanitally since working here. I now know what a multimeter, arbitrary waveform generator, and USB-Firewire Interface bus are.

In many ways this past month has been like starting over at my job. I got moved to a new product group (thought I support the German stuff still), got a new boss (while still getting orders from the old one), etc. While I balked at first, the move seems to be a much better living situation. Having a boss in the United States, in Austin even, can have positive benefits...

January 8, 2002 11:15 pm.

Wow. I'm actually making a blog at home!

This weekend I went camping with Tecate, Maker's Mark, and Knob Creek. Tecate's birthday wish was to go to Gardner State Park out near Uvalude in the midst of the Hill Country. This is a fun group of people to travel with. We also traveled to HomeBrew's brother's wedding in Oregon this summer. Also a good trip. The reason these folks are good to travel with, is that they are as lazy as I am when it comes to travelling. No agenda. Just enjoyment. This can be bad if you have a mountain peak in mind, but can be great if you feel like kicking back. Most of our "camping" trip involved hanging out in our pimping cabin and consuming food and alcohol. We also hiked around in the hills surrounding the adjacent Frio Rio. Tecate and Maker's tried to show me how to skip stones, but I wasn't getting it.
Today we had a leisurely drive back to Austin. Tecate wanted to buzz by Lost Maples on the way home. We also stopped off at the Salt Lick on our way home, where I consumed large amounts of fatty animal flesh.
Afterwards we went across the road to this Confederate Veterans Park. In a nearby creek I finally managed to skip stones. I was stoked.