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So, I have finished my first (albeit partial) week at New Job, and I think I really like it. The company's very nice, and the work is a lot of the low-level systems development that I've been interested in doing. There are some quirks to our main platform, but most of them come from the restrictions of running embedded in environments like the International Space Station.
Friday was a bad car day for me. Before work I went to get a tire replaced after having it go flat on the previous day's commute, only to discover that I needed both rear tires replaced, as the other was very near to failure as well. After work, I went up to Woburn to see Kingdom of Heaven with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rufinia and tpau. Traffic on 128 was horrible, so I was late, and in a hurry, and managed to lock both sets of keys in the car. (I generally carry two sets of keys precisely so that this doesn't happen. Ha ha.) So after the film I waited around for awhile until AAA could break in for me. That gave me some time to reflect on the movie, although I actually spent much of it thinking about work.
Basically, I thought the movie was pretty good. There was Good and Bad, but Our Hero's big victory was not a glorified boss fight, and the treatment of the major moral themes was reasonably interesting. I do wish that modern movies were not so prone to flattening out their characters to moral extremes (that is, if Mr. Smith is a Good Guy, then every action of his must radiate Goodness), but so it goes. I was also surprised at how decent a job they did of historical accuracy, even if Our Hero's historical end is rather different.
Yesterday we mostly vegetated at home and watched copious amounts of West Wing and Firefly, the latter in preparation for this Thursday's Serenity preview. Today, housecleaning.
Friday was a bad car day for me. Before work I went to get a tire replaced after having it go flat on the previous day's commute, only to discover that I needed both rear tires replaced, as the other was very near to failure as well. After work, I went up to Woburn to see Kingdom of Heaven with
rufinia and tpau. Traffic on 128 was horrible, so I was late, and in a hurry, and managed to lock both sets of keys in the car. (I generally carry two sets of keys precisely so that this doesn't happen. Ha ha.) So after the film I waited around for awhile until AAA could break in for me. That gave me some time to reflect on the movie, although I actually spent much of it thinking about work.Basically, I thought the movie was pretty good. There was Good and Bad, but Our Hero's big victory was not a glorified boss fight, and the treatment of the major moral themes was reasonably interesting. I do wish that modern movies were not so prone to flattening out their characters to moral extremes (that is, if Mr. Smith is a Good Guy, then every action of his must radiate Goodness), but so it goes. I was also surprised at how decent a job they did of historical accuracy, even if Our Hero's historical end is rather different.
Yesterday we mostly vegetated at home and watched copious amounts of West Wing and Firefly, the latter in preparation for this Thursday's Serenity preview. Today, housecleaning.
