Everything But The Kitchen Sink

January 30, 2004 3:48 am General

It’s been a busy couple of days as I start to prepare for my trip to India. I rang the VISA office today wondering where my application had got to, since I have less than a week before I go. They told me that since I had a non-NZ VISA, they had to get some sort of approval [presumably from Ireland somewhere]. They said they’d get back to me soon, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed. I really should get a second passport – it would have made things much easier, and I could have sent it away before I went to Adelaide. I’m still due to stay at the Windsor and Sheraton, despite its price, unless the Wipro folks get back that they’ve found another hotel. Seems there is a concert on in Bangalore making good accommodation scarce.

This week we found another local crag to climb on, providing a much lower set of grades which has been good for Maeve’s confidence. We spent one long evening blitzing the crag, with the hardest route being 19. It was short and sweet, and we’ll probably head back there again for another evenings entertainment.

There was a pretty excellent All Hands today in the US, with me watching over a slightly disjointed video stream. There seems to be lots of momentum inside Sun with lots of awesome deals and deployments happening. It’s all amazingly encouraging as a developer that Sun seems to be really focused for the first time in quite a while. I got a mail today from Curtis thanking me for doing a good job – it’s nice to know that a VP knows who you are and values the importance of saying ‘thanks’ just like in OSS. Sun is an incredibly frustrating place to work, and you doubt yourself into feeling that you can never make a difference. I guess it’s that frustration that’s really driving me to keep doing what I’m doing, so that someday it’ll be easy to look back and see what huge steps we’ve all made. What is it I do? Hrm, good question.

I’ve had a veritable feast of dreams this week. This Lariam is good stuff.

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