A Few Thoughts…

It seems like that’s been the story of my life for the past few weeks. Good decisions and bad, whatever got me so far behind on everything in my life is now in the process of being brought back up to speed. Work was very busy, but also very productive this week. School has finally handed me a large heaping of work to start on (I’m taking a short break from writing a summary paper to write this). HTG work has been coming along, though I still don’t get to contribute as much as I would like.

My house has finally seen some of the piles of papers start to disappear – slowly, but surely I’ll make them all go away. I have quite a few pieces of artwork to hang on the walls still – hopefully I’ll find some time this week to work on that! I got an interesting piece of mail this week asking if I would be interested in selling my home. I have decided that I don’t really enjoy all of the offerings the condo has for me (like the extra HOA fees for things I don’t really participate in), but that I’m not ready to get a house just yet. Life is a little too busy right this moment to add extra time to the commute, and take care of a home. Though I look forward to the day when I can slow down a bit, have my few acres, a couple of dogs, and a little garden to get fresh food from! Not to mention being able to grill out again!

I’m glad that I’m working on my masters, but there’s a long road ahead before I can finish it up. I’m hoping to find some project at work that I can use to do research on for my degree. That would kill two birds with one stone! Three if you count the fact that I’ve been wanting to see some of the other work that my company does!

I’ve been doing a lot of work with the STL libraries at work. I went in yesterday and discovered that I had implemented a few container classes incorrectly – or at least sub-optimally. It required a brief redesign of some of my code (which it has not completely recovered from yet – I hate checking in code that doesn’t compile – even into a branch!), which will end up being for the better. Though I did wake up in the middle of the night dreaming about boost::shared_ptrs, and how to properly use them in STL hashed container classes! There’s a great book called “Effective STL” which is stocked full of good info on STL topics – though read it before you start on a project, not when you’re half-way through it!

Okay, I think that’s all for now on this brief foray out of the academic world. If there’s one thing to be said about my experiences post-undergrad work, I can read through technical papers like lightning and crank out reports almost as fast

So, there’s a lot of papers out there we need to look up for Advanced OS. Since I move around to different systems a lot, I figure I’ll post them here. That, and it’ll help my friends find them too
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