Contrib3b

"Hobbits give presents to other people on their own birthdays. Not very expensive ones, as a rule, [...] but it was not a bad system".

Not a bad system, indeed. So without further ado (and considering I am already running late for dinner at Alasya's, which is a sin in and by itself, especially after quoting Hobbit customs:), take a peek at this.

Job

Well, it had to happen sometime --- I went and got myself a job. A *real* job, of the 9-to-5 variety. Except, it isn't really 9-to-5, but rather sometime-between-10-and-12-to-whenever, but the general idea still holds... A fulltime job, every day, 5 days a week. Have had it for six months now, too.

Taking into account travel times, that's taking out 50-60 hours per week of my time. Uh-oh.... And you wondered why the poor Umblog didn't get any updates.

Interestingly enough, although I have been hired as a "Senior Software Developer" (and even got the business cards to prove it :), a lot of the work I am doing is actually in hardware development. I guess those *cough* years of Electrical Engineering back in *cough* weren't completely wasted after all....

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