Update I

Well now that I'm working again I'm not really posting to this as actively as I once was. But here will be update one of two or maybe more. Anyway I started work for the first time again on Monday. The commute isn't to bad I ride my bike over to the 22nd Caltrain Station and take that to Palo Alto and then ride my bike to HP labs. At HP the project I'm working on has three programmers. My friend Ben, my semi sorta boss Tim and another guy James. They are all nice people. It also has a marketing person, Carol, and to two QA testers who I forget there names but I don't have to worry about it because they work in another building. So on Monday they all took me out to lunch to celebrate my finaly being hired. It was an amazing chinese food place.
Other then that I've just been settling into work. I had to figure out how to get my badge so I could enter the building and not have to depend on Ben every day to get me in. I didn't get that till Wednesday. I don't know if you can see it but the camera they used squished my head a little.
Let's see what else. I got my actual work computer on Wednesday so now I have a legal HP computer connected to the network. So to deviate a little, at work they have me testing this software and how it will run with pop-up blockers and firewalls. So I have a Red Hat server running in my cubicle and a straight out of the box HP PC running as a client. The only problem is that we're not supposed to do this. The IT people need to install HP Lab specific software in order for any computer to be on the HP Lab network problem is we're supposed to be testing this software on right out of the box HP consumer PC's. Being as how we couldn't find any way around this problem I was told to just hook the computer into the network and use it till I get caught. If I do get caught that means I'll either have to go to the other HP office in Cupertino to work or work from home possibly. I like the later better.