(Based on the events of Wednesday, September 19th)
When I peaked out the window Wednesday morning I was happy to see it was dry. I went down through the lobby and saw that the hotel had breakfast ready before the stated time of 5:30, so I was able to grab some coffee and a pastry. I got to my car without forgetting anything, and getting to work was a lot easier without the rain. I still think the posted speed limit is crazy high. Did I mention that I got my badges Tuesday? After getting finger-printed? Well I did. So I got through security by myself. The gates are crazy like Star Trek, they go *Woosh!* and *Woosh!* just like that.
I had had to make a new password for the client's system and they had more strict requirements. Of course it took me so long to come up with one they'd accept, I couldn't remember it the next day. Luckily they don't seem to have a maximum number of tries before getting locked out, so I was able to log in eventually. But the network was down so we couldn't do anything. We chatted until the morning meeting which was pretty much the same as Tuesday. After the meeting the safety guy came by 'cause I asked him if we could put stuff on our hard hats. He said we could put some stuff on our hats as long as it's "tasteful." I showed him my cool Scooby Doo stickers that my friend gave me, he turned up his nose! Who doesn't like Scooby Doo?!
I had training at 8, and the network was still down, so I took the time to put in my picks for the group's football pool. Well it's not really a pool since the only thing at stake is bragging rights. Basically you take all the games for that week and put a score of 1 to 16 on who you think the winner of each game will be. Right now we're just using print-outs to keep track, but one of the guys started making a spreadsheet. He wanted it to automatically tell you who won each week. So I poked at that for a while.
The training class started just like any other I've gone to with this company. This was a site orientation class and there were some interesting bits of information, but mostly it was boring. At the break I went to the bathroom to find that the hand soap had an MSDS hazard sticker. This one said it had a flammable hazard of 3. Since when is Dial hand soap flammable?!
When I got back to my desk the network was back up, so I started my required reading. My boss came by and dropped off a trash can for me. One step closer to a whole cube. Well, more like half a cube. At least I got a few more hours of sleep and some coffee. Red Bull may have the caffeine, but it doesn't have the ritual of my morning coffee. In between procedures, I pondered the differences between this site and my old site. This site will eventually be a working nuclear power plant, whereas my old site is supposed to dispose of the remnants of the cold war. There we had drills in case of a nuclear disaster, here we have plans in case of a tornado. I'm not sure which is more scary for me...
After work I met up with my mom's friend who was my boss for my internship. I'd say he's kind of like an uncle :) We drove around town looking at apartments. None of the offices were open, but we did cross one off the list just looking at it. Afterwards we went to dinner and split two pitchers of margaritas. Probably not my best idea on a work night, but I hadn't seen him in forever and it was nice to have a familiar face for a bit. Not too bad an end to my first "hump day" in the South.
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