Okay – back to the weekend, and I made it back here to the ‘puters.
Most of the week has been pretty uneventful — amazingly uneventful, in fact. John — my trainer at work — was gone this week, training for his new position in Xerox, so there was a floater who’d worked in the Anderson XBS office before to help, since I’m not fully trained yet. As it turns out, I probably could have handled the week by myself, as the workload was slow to the point of being almost nonexistant. While it was pretty relaxing, and Loren (the floater) and I were able to chat a lot, it made for a really long, slow, boring week. Maybe a good thing, as I’m still learning the ropes, but not exactly very stimulating.
During my lunch break on Friday, though, I hiked up a couple blocks to the Bank of America tower on 5th and Columbia. Seattle’s tallest building, at 1,049 feet above sea level it’s roughly twice the hight of the Space Needle, and is the tallest building (by number of stories) west of the Mississippi. 76 stories high, it has an observation deck on the 73rd story, and I decided to wander up and check out the view for my lunch. I’ve got to admit, it’s quite a view — especially on days like we’ve been having (more unusually gorgeous weather, Seattle is in the middle of a heat wave, with temperatures topping out yesterday at 87 degrees). I took a few shots, two of which are posted in today’s update.
During the day Friday, I’d gotten a call from Shelley (my supervisor at Xerox) letting me know that there was a Xerox get together on the campus out in Tukwilla that evening that I was welcome to come to — even though I’m a temp — if I could show up. I figured I might as well…my schedule isn’t exactly full to bursting these days, and it could be good to meet some more people within Xerox. As it turns out, while I did meet a couple people, I also ran into Chris and Donna Bennet, who I knew from Anchorage. I’d worked with both of them at Kinko’s and at TimeFrame over the years — they were working at Kinko’s when I started there, each of them moved to TimeFrame before I did, then they left TimeFrame not long after I showed up there. They spent some time up in Fairbanks, then came down to Washington a while ago, and are both now working for Xerox. So the picnic ended up being a much more entertaining experience than I’d expected it to be.
That lasted until 9pm, then I grabbed the next bus back to Seattle, and got home around 10-ish. I spent the next couple hours working on a new mixsession, which came out pretty good. I can’t post it to my DJ propaganda page yet — rather than running my equipment into my computer, as I had before, I recorded directly to my MiniDisc recorder — but as soon as I can get it .mp3‘d, I’ll get it up. Anyway, just a bit before midnight, I headed out to the only movie I treated myself to this week — the midnight showing of Showgirls. Had a blast watching that…it’s a horrid film, but that’s a lot of the fun.
And that pretty much covers things for this week. Until next time….