Survival of the Boredest
Aside from a lunch meeting/presentation today that was actually fairly interesting, my day ranked pretty high on the boredom scale. Lots of people weren’t around still due to Windows 7 being officially completed on Wednesday, so not only did they have nothing to do, but I had even less to do. Still, I guess you can say that I successfully survived my first week at Microsoft, and my initial impression is quite favorable. I have a job where I can wear a t-shirt and shorts (or more likely pants considering the Seattle weather) each day, flexible times on when I arrive and leave as long as I’m there for when I really need to be, and the chance to play with all of Microsoft’s brand new toys before they become available to the public. Yeah, I think I’m going to like it up here.
Vegas seems to be a done deal for Thanksgiving, so I just need to book my tickets from here. Unfortunately, that means I can’t use American Airlines since they only fly to about four destinations from the Seattle airport, but Alaska Airlines (whose hub is here) fortunately is a partner as far as sharing frequent flyer miles and stuff goes. I’m eventually going to take a Virgin America flight somewhere, but that will probably be to Los Angeles or someplace direct so I wouldn’t have to make a stop in between.