Work
Entertaining month
I’d been kinda busy in September, but not entirely and it really was affecting my posting here on the blog. My search for clients and reliable contract work was disrupting my efforts on this blog (and others) to the extent that all thoughts simply dried up.
Well, Friday of this week was a great day for [...]
Burning the midnight oil
So I’m again sitting up writing at midnight, wondering why it is that I find inspiration to work when it gets dark. While I don’t have the exact answer, I do think that having some quite time at night has something to do with it. There are fewer distractions, it’s quieter (except for the headphones [...]
Where you work matters
At least that’s something that I have learned in the last 4 months since leaving corporate life. No, I don’t miss the cube farms, the burnt popcorn smell emanating from the break room, or the overly boisterous cube neighbor.
The most important thing I’ve figured out is that no matter where you work, you do [...]
Productive Friday
Ah, another productive Friday. Sometimes I’m surprised at the amount of work I get done on Fridays. A little sunshine, a little Van Halen, WiFi, Coffee, and the work gets done.
This is something that I just couldn’t do in corporate - the dirty secret is that I could have if only allowed to. Working off-site [...]
Business Life
What I find amazing after leaving corporate life is that there are actually other people out there in business. While that is a ’super doh!’ statement, I hadn’t really taken the time to notice other people and what they do for a living. How many people actually work out of coffee shops, cafes and other [...]
Of email, feeds, research and planning
That is the makeup of my tasks this week. While I’m pretty much caught up on my email, I do have a large backlog of feeds that I need to parse through and read. Luckily Google Reader makes that easy.
As for the rest of the week, I’ve got a lot of work in the research [...]
Moving on to the next phase of my career
So I’ve completed my last day with Michael Foods. The last two weeks have been an almost non-stop brain dump and documentation marathon. It’s taken extra hours each day and left me drained of ambition to do much else when I got home.
Now that this transition is over, I’m going to be able to focus my attention [...]
Saying Goodbye to Michael Foods
This is a difficult post for me, and an exciting one as well. There are many good times that I’ll remember from working at Michael Foods, and I have to admit that I’m going to miss working with such a great group of people. Anyone looking to join Michael Food’s IT department couldn’t look for [...]
Enterprise Documentation
Ever had to write documentation for projects at work? The process can be tedious and fun at the same time. At least it is for me most of the time as the creative process lets you explore the best way to communicate a topic.
At the same time, its only as interesting as a person makes [...]
More SMS work
With the Daylight Savings Time 2007 updates and a number of other projects, I’ve got a lot of SMS (that’s Systems Management Server) work to get through this week. There is some file permissions on our image, the monthly security patches, the DST updates, and a few others like Adobe 8 that need to [...]
