Current mood:	hyper
Current music:	Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes

Secundus

Mood icon is the closest I can find to wired. Close enough I guess. The inaugural entry was written yesterday and I forgot to post, which is why this post comes hard on its heels.

Forewent Dunnett to re-read Reichert's Nightfall book on the train. We did a Welcome-in for the new guys. Well, nothing actually so formal as Cherryh's Finity's End ceremony. But they're out of the training room and into the bullpen. Dragged an air conditioner from the other room.

Jon and I talked about the VUELTA presentation. Most of the day I was picking at the various projects on my desk, and searching through the web and Usenet for materials and methodologies of analysis, modeling, and simulation. Arsham's site has a lot of nice material, if scattered.

Monthly meeting today. Nice to see everyone, chat with Roy in St. Louis over the intercom. Jennifer didn't come, nor Ron Delgado. Afterwards went to Gators at the seaport. Boy it's hot, but the scenery is nice. There's a pretty waitress with, je n'sais quois, an attitude, sort of flirty and insolent, who never looks back, never comes closer than twenty feet away. Sigh.

Matt and Meredith (not Melanie--this is the third time I made that same mistake) have split, as of a month ago. They were going to get engaged next month. I'm stunned. What does one say about that? Ronnie confirmed what I gathered from something Annette said last week: she and Scott the network guy are an item. And now that I know that they're an item some things from when she was still training coordinator are starting to click in my head. Such nice people; what a great couple.

I left at ten, hopped onto the next PATH, and arrived about thirty minutes before the next train. Jon left about a half hour earlier than me and was waiting for about forty minutes at the station. He's going on vacation over the next week, and I made a certain bet about a certain party and a certain "digital fetter." Various projects.

After I've done the salesman presentation, I want to retarget it to the rest of our engineers, so they can recommend it when an OPNET situation pops up. It's like a recognition manual for when to bring up the subject. Also, a complete process checklist for PTAP/RAMP for analyzing, characterizing, and modeling workload.