The Engineer Gets a Week

Our break room at work had some yummy baked goods today: a giant cookie, some doughnuts and a cake that read "Thank you Engineers of Lockheed Martin". Our site manager sent an email that mentioned National Engineers Week and thanked us for our contributions and support. w00t! So to all my fellow software engineers out there: Happy Engineers Week!

I decided to troubleshoot my dead Linux box last night. It booted up right away! It lives! I stayed up late installing over 200 updated files. So far it seems to be running well. I plan to continue to watch it and replace it sometime in the near future.

When my mail software came back online, I caught up on my email and realized I missed a memorial service for my best friend's mother this past weekend. Words fail to describe how terrible I feel. He drove to my home town to pay respects when my father passed away last year. He's probably disappointed; I'm a bad friend right now. I'll give him a call tonight to try to make amends. I'll see if he wants to go out for drinks and will make a generous donation to a charity in his mother's name.

UPDATE: I took my friend out for drinks. We had a great time. I'm going to give a donation to the American Cancer Society.

Posted at 4:07 PM