Yesterday was very strange among my days here. I ended up heading into work pretty late (that’s not strange) on the way in I got my first speeding ticket on a road that I would describe as a Microsoft driveway if it weren’t for the fact that Eddie Bauer world headquarters is right there. The cop was generous in that he rounded down the reading and didn’t double the ticket for the construction zone that was like 30 yards in front of where I stopped.
I was at work for a whole 2 hours before the Texas/Texas A&M olympics, which was fun. We lost. Boo.
I then spent a few hours hanging out with some interns at an Irish Pub/Cajun Resteraunt. No those aren’t two seperate places, it’s called the Celtic Bayou.
Headed home and read some Dune and was about to drift off to sleep around 1am when I suddenly remembered that I had said I would look into Austin Stone’s resurgent spam problem. Apparently GFI’s trial period had expired and that it had finally decided to stop checking spam for free. Based on the logs i rebooted the server around 2:20am. It’s always fun to be sitting 2000 miles away from a server in the middle of the night hoping that the server will in fact come back online, knowing that if it doesn’t you have to wake up like 3.5 hours later to talk whoever hits the office first through the process of getting the server back up.
Now i’m back at work. For some reason the interns and new grads in my group were tapped to forgo actually getting things done so that we could prepare presentations for an event that I’m expecting to be an endless repetition of the following conversation:
person: What’s CRM?
me: CRM means Customer Relationship Management
person: oh
me: I have a demo that is interesting to business people
person: that’s ok, i’m going to go see what’s going on at the (XBox|Windows Mobile|MSN|Media Player|Internet Explorer) booth
me: please, take me with you
person backs away slowly making sure not to make any sudden movements