Back to School!

So, I'm looking to get my Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) certification. This is a fairly big deal and I'm excited. However, as a stepping stone is the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) Certification. This certification is the "Bachelors" of .NET certification. Once I have my MCTS It's a short hop and a jump to the MCPD certification.

I'm strangely excited to have an exam in my future, a test, new knowledge. I'm hoping with the certifications and my current education and background I'll be highly marketable which can't ever hurt in the current economy.

I guess it boils down to god I hope I pass!

Support Us!

I've been on Engineering Support for just under four weeks. Engineering Support is a task in which regular Engineers, like me, get rotated into a triage type position. usually for one or two weeks at a time.

I've been here a month.

Now, it is partially my fault. As last year wound down I volunteered for a support rotation, I was running out of work and feeling underutilized and was looking for anything I could do. So, I went on a two week support rotation. What I didn't know is that I had been scheduled for Support the first two weeks of January. Not that it would have changed my decision but it would have been nice to know.

Now, three and a half weeks in I'm seriously beginning to doubt my sanity. Bug report numbers blur, customer complaints begin to ring hollow like gnats buzzing in my ears and the stupidity, the death of brain cells I have suffered should net me some sort of compensation, most likely in the thousands of dollars range....

At least I'm getting paid.

Three and a half more days.... 29 hours... then I can go back to being just another Engineer in a cube, anonymity is a good thing I guess.

It's a Ghost Town

Twas the day before Christmas and all through Engineering not a cube was stirring.... accept for mine...

I swear it's a ghost town in here! I saw a tumbleweed blow past the coffee pot earlier. This is just asinine, I have no idea how I'm supposed to get any work done today. Oh well.