cottage and back

Had a great weekend for the cottage -- the weather on Saturday was perfect for snowshoeing in (though a bit warm for skiing), great for having outdoor fun at the cottage, including building a snowwoman on the lake, and having a snowball fight. And, the snow on Sunday was good, too, since it gave nice snow conditions for me to ski out, but didn't accumulate enough to make the road out undriveable. Ok, a couple of the hill climbs on the way out were a bit challenging, but we made it back out fine. And, many games were played including Ricochet Robots, San Juan, Gloom, and Trans Europa. scubajim spent much time fiddling with Tantrix puzzles; and scubajim and leolac got to do a bit of "extreme" snowshoeing.

Work...

Last week I was at QNX headquarters to teach for a week (well, 4 days, Monday was travel home from Confusion). This teaching stint went fairly well, with 4 customers and 4 internal (QSS) students in attendance. It was nice to teach again, and I didn't have to travel for it.

This week, I'm back at MMIST -- I arrived back to find (as I had been warned) my previous desk location taken over by a new hire, but the "new" desk location not prepared. Oh joy. And, the whole team was in a meeting when I arrived at work, too. I did track down & join the meeting, and with the push of me being back, I now have a desk. Not a cube, a desk. To my left is the sink, I have nowhere to hang a coat, I've got ethernet wire running over the top of partition walls, and my back is to some corrridor area with the printer, too, but I've got a desk. Yay.