Things are picking up a little

So this entire week I've been trying to begin this job. I've finally gotten 2 of the 3 accounts that I need to fully access the work network, and I should have the last one in about half an hour when the system updates. I've been waiting it out and trying to push the process along all week. I finally got my company laptop today, but its not much good until I can fully get on the network.

So Wednesday afternoon, my boss Woz asks me to stay late an hour to jump on a conference call with him, and to head over to his office at 4:30 so he can explain the project to me. I head over at 4:30, he tells me that the project is with a client in Belchez, Louisiana, or someplace like that, and that he wants me to be the engineer on the job. I figured what the hey, so he continued on to tell me its setting up our Fuel Management system on around 500 tanks. I let him know that I had no idea how to do that yet and he said there'd probably be another engineer accompanying me while I started, comforting. We get on the call and figure out what the customer wants, he said I'll probably be flying out there Mon-Fri for 3 or 4 weeks throughout May/June. He then said I'll probably get a chance to work on a project in Singapore for 2 weeks with one of the head engineers. I like the sound of that!

Today one of the other oil & gas system engineers had me shadow him around and showed me how to set up our systems on both the client and the server side, but what all that exactly does, I'm still a little unsure of. I have a ways to go before I will understand this product.

I apply for my software/hardware master keys, Blackberry, Air Card, eID, etc. tomorrow. I like the speed of this job so far, there's not too much downtime in the beginning, so I get to jump right into it. I'm looking for an opportunity to impress some people, the first couple weeks/months are pretty important as far as showing folks what you can do. I think I've done some good towards this goal, but I also think I've done some bad towards it.

I need to adjust myself and my lifestyle to fit in this new concept of an 8 hour workday. I'm not going to get anywhere if I keep pulling less than 6 hours sleep a night. I also need to finish up with this moving business and put all my shit away. And Comcast needs to quit being a bunch of dickwads and activate my cable internet/tv already, they've missed the appointment time 3 times this week already.

I need to de-stress, the recent tremors and disturbances in my lifestyle have been making me feel very needy, and I hate that. I also need more work-work to do, that way I not only have something to do during the workday, but something to resort to besides Youtube videos when I'm bored at home.