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Permalink to this day Sunday, March 07, 2004

When I had an awful experience about U Haul I blogged it and on foundering.org (which is offline?) I posted a lot of other user submitted Uhaul horror stories. On Friday I got a call from U-Haul asking if they could use my site in their customer training service. I of course said yes.
10:35:16 PM  Permalink to this item []

This could be the koolaid talking but after two weeks here I can honestly say that I'm loving it.

(But I guess we'll see how I feel after I really start working).
10:20:58 PM  Permalink to this item []


Omar hacks his Media Center's front panel display.

I just got my Media Center working at my office on Friday and hopefully I'll be getting one at home soon and then I can geek out and hack the thing to pieces. Though I don't own a TV... Or a couch...
9:56:02 PM  Permalink to this item []


Random reflections after two weeks of being a new hire straight out of 'college' PM at Microsoft:

  • Things will start slowly even if everyone else is super busy
  • Eating your own dogfood is good but it doesn't mean it tastes good
  • Find your peers and start sitting in on their meetings
  • Schedule short one on one's with a broad range of people in your division as well as all the people you'll be interacting with on a daily basis.
  • There is a surprising number of Waterloo grads here
  • The benefits are great
  • You don't really need a SSN straight away. I thought I wouldn't be able to do anything until I had one but I was able to get a cellphone, open a bank account, get a credit card,.. without one
  • Get up to speed with all the potential tools you will be using as soon as possible
  • The intranet is a vast resource though I wish there was more
  • I wish the personnel directory had everyone's photo (Amazon has a nice HR org tool with photos and all)
  • Mailing lists are your friends.
  • In two weeks only one MS person has called me on the phone
  • Voicemails show up as emails. Why can't my cell phone work like this??
  • You're free to leave a meeting if your issue has been addressed
  • Cell phones do not work in our part of the building
  • It's okay to watch TV at work
  • Everyone really is 31.2 just like from Microserfs
  • Microsoft cares about saving money. They have these turn off your unnecessary equipment posters in the elevators.
  • Everyone is very friendly. I've already been invited out mountain biking and sailing
  • I've seen no evidence of Bill Gates worship. I don't think anyone has even mentioned him.
  • Having an office mate is great (whether he feels that way is another question). He's a great resource and is teaching me lots of bad habits and filling me in with the backstory.

If you have questions about me moving to Seattle/working for the devil maybe I have answers so go crazy in the comments.
9:01:58 PM  Permalink to this item []


Friday night John and I went out with the cool kids from work and had a good time. I look forward to spending time outside of work with them. Hopefully they feel the same way :).

Saturday I spent the day wandering around Capitol Hill determining what I don't want. I don't want to live more than three blocks east of Broadway, I don't want to live more than ten minutes from Pike & Pine. I don't want to live somewhere bland. I don't want to live somewhere grungy.

Saturday night we met up with Jody, a friend of Jen's, and later Mira and some other people and saw a live act at the Blue Moon in the u-district and then closed the night at Cyclops.

So as I mentioned yesterday, I stumbled into an open house and feel in love with a place. The place, The Carroll, was having an open house again today at 1pm so I had my apartment hunter take me around to his best places before the open house. I saw two places, one was the top floor of a house, the other was an apartment in a castle like building. Both were nice. The house had a great view, the castle had amazing vintage charm. But The Carroll has enough vintage charm, great location, great view that I took it.

After writing the deposit cheque (check) I had my guy take me around to the best Seattle has to offer and we checked out some high rises with pools, kill expansive views, concierge, hot tubs, models as tenants,... But the apartments were so bland I just couldn't do it.

So yeah, I found a great place to live. You can check out some photos on the building's website but they don't do justice to the unit I got. It's all very open, lots of windows, spacious, view, location,..
7:38:51 PM  Permalink to this item []


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