#365Gratitude Day 175: training day

Yesterday was my first day of a training class.  

It was a particularly good day.  

1) My other three co-workers and I were early to the class, and got the best seats.

2) We've been working with the software product we're learning for a little while, making us sort of the class leaders.  We got through a lot of material that the rest of the class was still struggling with.

3) Because of this, we got to leave for lunch before everyone else, and go for a nice long lunch, to boot.

4) When we got back, I found out there was a really nice branch of my gym right near the training site, and I had packed my gym bag just in case that was so, and thus got to go swimming right after class!

Sometimes, you just have a really good day.

#365Gratitude Day 174: In which I have experiences which build my � character!

So a colleague at work asked me to build something for him - an export tool that outputs data from my project, but in a much simpler, more abbreviated format.  It would have only two columns of data, instead of the dozen or so the existing tool does, have no header row, and would strip out any quotation marks in the comma separated value file (CSV) it would generate.

No problem.

I read up on the particular plugin we were using to do the existing export, including this not very helpful piece of documentation.

It reads like it should be written u\0000, right?

Nope.  It's \u0000, which is NULL. (That's its format in java and groovy.)

After just a little bit of stupid puttering around, I figured that out on my own.

I'm grateful, if not a wee bit frustrated!

#365Gratitude Day 173: Sick and tired

Sunday night we got in around 9pm. I was that horrible mix of jacked and exhausted.  

Exhausted from a 9 hour trip in the car (including traffic around the Verrazano bridge and a stop for Tony Soprano's pizza (cheese, with mushrooms) in New Jersey)

Jacked from being home. I had this minecraft project of mine on my mind, and proceeded to stay up until 2am working on it with a friend.  

Yeah, stupid.  

The next day I managed to get myself up for work, drove in, started reading my email and realized I was bonking.  

This is the icon for work bonking.  

Thank goodness for understanding bosses and sick days. I got the heck out of their and went home for a extra large sized nap (no cheese, no mushrooms)

#365Gratitude Day 172: Mistakes okay

I lost a day somewhere. The Sunday we found Missy's glasses should have been day 172. 

That's okay though. I'm grateful that it's okay to make mistakes.  That's true every day. 

#365Gratitude Day 171: Found Glasses

Sunday morning we woke up with and without something.

With: hangovers (the party had wine, champagne, mixed drinks, & sake.)

Without: Missy's glasses.  

She had misplaced them someplace Saturday night.  She felt  terrible about this.  She had a good idea where they might be. 

That morning we went back to my aunt's and sure enough, they were exactly where she thought.  

 Whew!