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I realize this post is.. unothodoxly timed, given the past week or so, but…

Just… life is so amazing right now.. and things are only going to get better!

aha! I can’t wait

12:35

I have received a total of four emails today. Two PNNs at ten, and then another two at eleven-thirty. I.. have basically finished my second AutoTester script. A lot earlier than I had planned..

13:18

About seventeen minutes for the second script.. twelve for the first? I SHOULD RUN THEM BACK TO BACK CONSTANTLY

About four hours left.. Meaning four are gone already..

I think I am going to nap so hard when I get home. I’ve been staying up way too late lately, but.. you know, I ain’t complaining. I need to grab Corey’s TV from Joy and stick it somewhere in my room… I need to put all my shit somewhere… I’m taking up the entire room, and I’ll have a roommate in a week…

14:28

It just took twenty minute this time.

14:58

From: Hogan, Jon
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 2:43PM
To: Testing(SQA)
Subject: RE: RE: Tutorial

Tony:

I’m dissapointed, you’re just being too nice. Think harder, there must be something wrong. Think like a tester! Besides, you’re a short-timer anyway, what have you got to lose?

PS: All in jest, thanks for the review!

—–Original Message—–
From: Lademan, Anthony
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 2:18 PM
To: Testing (SQA)
Subject: RE: RE: Tutorial

That looks very good, I couldn’t find anything wrong with it or think of any suggestions.

Tony

—–Original Message—–
From: Rashid, Mustafa
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 2:12 PM
To: Testing (SQA)
Subject: RE: Tutorial

Hello Everybody,

I just finished with a tutorial for creating a new work request. Please have a look at it. As always, any and every suggestion is most welcome.
Thank You.

<\\Dhcp\42-InfoTech\SQA\Testing> - SharedFiles\New WR Tutorial\New WR.htm

…what?

I apologize, it’s the end of the week, I’m awfully tired, I might write more next week. Probably not.

15:21

Sweet dreams are made of these
who am I to disagree?

15:51

An hour ten.

16:44

The start timestamp on the first test says “4:15:31 PM” and the end timestamp on the second test says “4:44:20 PM.”

This thing runs for half an hour. That’s pretty awesome.

I guess that means it’s documentation time, tomorrow?

9:33

I’m mostly moved into my new room. The hall smells like wet mop, there’s no screen on my window (is this the room that was burglarized earlier this month?), I can’t use the bathroom on my floor because there are still some girls living here (summer orientation?), the water from the second south showers smells.. musty (and thus leaves a musty smell on me.. plus my palms seem really dry, but just my palms, I don’t know if that’s related). I got all the essential stuff set up yesterday, gotta grab the rest of the miscellaneous stuff today. I wonder how I am going to hold on to two fridges and a TV.. That will be fun..

I am going to be so lonely in here! My roommate comes in in a week and a few days, so I’ve got a week alone. That’ll be fun. Going to/from work from/to an empty room. I’m really not looking forward to moving the rest of my stuff.. I am so lazy…

9:53

I came into work this morning and had a single email: the four o’clock PNN email that I forgot to mark as read the night before.. While testing my script I remembered back to my first couple of weeks here where I would just read cases and outcomes in Jury Verdict to pass the time. I might start doing that again. I wonder if my boss will notice if I start spending half an hour less each day on this stupid automation work request (we have to log our time spent on each Work Request in the timesheet application). I have six (seven including today) days left, that’s NOT enough time to start another full-fledged script such as this. I guess I could start another small one and leave it for someone else to finish? I dunno.. It’s just that I’ve spent basically the last.. three? weeks on this. However long it’s been since we were on the fifth floor. To do another such script would require maybe a few days shy of the same time frame (the few days were dedicated to learning the software, which was easy as hell to learn).

Last night I went to ask the RA (didn’t know he was the RA at the time) whether we could use the bathroom or not while the girls were still on the floor and came out of it twenty minutes later with a potential internship for the.. forseeable future, really (that would also develop into an actual job thing if I do well enough). It would only be about fifteen to twenty hours a week, so that should be doable with school. Though if I get this, I’ll probably not be able to work at the reg. office, either at all or very much.. I hope the internship is paid o_O

I am excited. Totally did not expect that. He was all “say, do you know linux?” “I run it on my laptop and desktop..” “ok, how would you make something start up at runtime?” “put it in /etc/init.d/rc.local” “cool cool”

…wat o_o

This would be really cool as it sounds like mostly linux system and server administation and management. Zac, the RA, says that they mostly deal with hardware from Dell and HP (and not IBM), and often have to make special requests for hardware without a framebuffer, as they do all of their stuff on the commandline. I am comfortable on the commandline, but there is still a ton I need to learn.

Oh, there’s the ten o’clock PNN getting my hopes up that maybe I have a new WR or something..

But yeah, this is a really cool oppourtunity, I really hope it works out.

10:06

I guess I could make a little script that runs through a bunch of searches and stuff trying to trigger as many billing codes as possible? The only problem with AutoTester is that it can’t really pull data from a spreadsheet, which is how Golden32 outputs the SQL data from the server.. :/ The script could just run through the searches and then the tester could load up Golden32 and look for the proper codes at the right times (the script would leave a log file that would tell the tester what to look for). Actually, the script could launch Golden32 and put in the proper query after the search is done so that the tester only has to sit down and compare the log to the SQL output… HMMM! This might work.

I am excited that my last week hear has a chance of not being completely boring.

FLASH! aaahhaaaa Savior of the universe!
FLASH! aaahhaaaa He’ll save everyone one of us!
FLASH! aaahhaaaa He’s a miracle!
FLASH! aaahhaaaa King of the impossible! (???)

Now I want to watch the 1980s (?) Flash Gordon.

10:26

This makes me laugh.

There doesn’t seem to be a way to concatenate text variables in this thing… this will be fun.

10:43

Looks this will provide me with hours of activity. Hopefully a week’s worth of hours.

11:39

I just love it when programs freeze while I’m using them and I don’t remember the last time I saved my work. Goddamnit.

Why.. do some of these Chrono Trigger remixes sound.. vastly different that I remember them sounding? It’s weird…

12:12

So many different lunches smell so good right now.. And here I am stuck with my turkey deli sandwich from Center Court.. I am tempted to go to Chipotle again.. those burritos are delicious AND filling. And lord knows I could go for something filling right about now.

12:29

Or a burger. A burger sounds really good too. Too bad I don’t know of any good burger places around here..

13:13

OH THAT BURRITO TOTALLY HIT THE SPOT YUMYUMYUM

13:39

King PoppelDoppelous led the PoppelDoppelonians from PoppelDoppelopolis, the capital of PoppelDoppelonia.

14:52

About an hour after that burrito.. I was hit with a major sleep wave…

15:12

Huh. Major Nelson (Larry Hyrb) is on a late July This Week in Tech. He seems like a pretty cool guy, not trying to sell Microsoft at every word. It’s.. kind of refreshing. It’s a neat discussion about the recent E3 (which was widely regarded as a failure..).

I put like two hours into this new script and then.. I crashed. Crashed as in lost desire to work on it some more.

16:15

Oh wow.. This new script is already up to about fifteen minutes of runtime… at about 60% the lines of code (including white space) of the other script. That’s… scary. Though I guess it makes sense, most of the time is spent on SLJ right now, and SLJ is slow as balls. Searching overall is slow, but especially on SLJ. With some of these apps… I could easily see the script reaching twenty minutes of runtime… Holy crap.. These are probably the longest runtimes of… anything that I’ve ever built. No, they ARE the longest runtimes of anything I’ve ever built. Previously the most would’ve been a minute or two on some poorly code Java app sometime freshman year or maybe during sophomore fall semester…

Ya get your money for nothing
Your chicks for free
(look at that! look at that!)
Ya get your money for nothing
Your chicks for free
(I want my.. I want my.. I want my MTV…)

One good thing about this script is that it dosn’t open any extra windows and then alt+f4 them… though when it’s supposed to press the search button it seems to press enter while notepad is focused, even though I didn’t tell it to press enter to trigger the search… :/

16:30

“Come Down” (The Pillows) started playing as I tilted my head back to look at the ceiling. There are cracks and stuff all up there. I briefly thought it’d be awesome if the ceiling fell. Then I remembered I’m still under it.

[…]

This script is twelve minutes when it fails on the last search. I’m betting that last search will add at least another minute to it… so… wow. This one is going to get huge. That’s all I should do on my last day is just run both scripts back to back, all day, “making sure they work.”

For some reason this script keeps failing to wait for the page to load on the last search. Whatever, that’s tomorrow’s quest.

!! I completely forgot! HAHAHA.

..I’m beginning to log into my site with ‘alademan’ instead of ’satoshi’.. This is bothersome.

11:30

Emailed in sick yesterday. Received a bitchy response about how shirking responsibilities is a disruption. I get to work today and I have seven new emails: three are PNN, one is about me calling in sick. No new Work Requests. Huh, kinda hard to disrupt things due to being unable to fulfill my responsibilities when I HAVE NOTHING TO WORK ON. Thanks, guy.

[…]So because I got no sleep I am sitting here practically dead, falling asleep to music.. I did download like nine new episodes of This Week in Tech and Paranormal Cafe, and TWiT kept me awake quite well. I started falling asleep when I put the music on.. ..am I conditioned to fall asleep to music? I should take a nap after work today. […] but I can’t keep going to bed so late. I have to come to work seven more days. I have to pretend to do things for seven more days..

Speaking of pretending to do things.. I was actually motivated to work on my script this morning. It was cool. Mostly got some organizational stuff done.

12:16

Four hours, forty-five minutes. I got breakfast this morning, bacon and eggs. Kind of a small portion.. ok, a really small portion, but it was still nice to eat something in the morning. Got to work at eight..

Got my paystub today.. ~$390 deposited in the bank yesterday. My next paycheck should be a fair amount more, even with the sick day yesterday. Doesn’t quite look like I’ll be able to afford Ophiuchus any time soon… I just hope Andy holds out for what could possibly be another year..

[…]

Did they… just get pizza for the office?

[…]

This font makes that smiley look so goofy…


By Tony Lademan (2008)
for Law bulletin Pub...
Software Qualtiy Ass...


12:31

12:39

I like how I can sit here, type a bit in notepad, scroll around AutoTester, hit F5, sit back for ten to fifteen minutes, refresh the log file, rinse and repeat, and make it look like I’m working. It’s pretty nice. Actually, no, it’s terrible. I wish I had something real to do. Something other than this stupid script that I’ve been working on for almost two weeks now? Ugh. It’s so boring. Give me real work.. Though I know I’m not going to get any.. what with seven days of employment left…

13:18

I love when I make stupid little mistakes such as not assiging a value to the correct variable… Ugh..

So I’ve realized that the more I wrte about […], the less I write about anything else, and therefore the less content you guys get. Which I assume you guys care about or something. Correct me if I’m wrong. I could uncensor all that… but where would the fun be?

Ugh.. here I go again.. falling asleep with two and a half hours left… My goal was to get into work early so that I could leave early and therefore a) not be as tired when I leave and b) be able to get to sleep sooner..

Stirb nicht vor mir..

Or I could run the test and go to the bathroom, which I’ve been doing for the past week or so… :/

13:59

Awesome, my first nosebleed in ages. Actually, also my first nosebleed in any sort of work environment. Good thing I was already in the bathroom at the time…

14:01

Two hours… I am so falling asleep it’s not cool… totally worth staying up all night.. Can’t make me think otherwise. I wish I could subsist on less sleep.. That would be great.. or that I had enough time in the day to take a nice long sleep AND still do what I do every day (which is, admittedly, not much..). Oh well. Just gotta live with what I’ve got, eh?

14:16

Ugh.. I keep falling asleep.. This script is like.. just about perfect now.. What else can I do.. Test it and fall asleep to it? :/

I bet you that I will have no real email until like Monday of next week… I bet that’s how it will work! Because it is crazy slow time just before Tony leaves. God this sucks. GIVE ME SOMETHING TO DO!

14:30

14:51

Ugh.. getting there.. an hour.. I can do this…

15:01

Why did I have to drink so much water? Now I have to pee..

15:31

I should really bring something to do tomorrow.. and next week… something inconspicuous though… Too bad I sit so close to the freaking walk way. If I were… even where Conor is, things would be perfect…

15:50

[…]

10:29

[…] I am so looking forward to this, the days cannot disappear fast enough.

This script is acting all.. weird and stuff. It will return errors when I let it run through on its own, but when I go line by line it works perfectly. It’s.. the weirdest thing.

10:42

April approved the last WR after I sent a second email. Looks like I’m all caught up now.. with.. nothing to do except work on this AutoTester script. …yay.

11:30

Had an awesome storm this morning. Alarm woke me up at 7:30 and I noticed it looked like night outside. By 7:30 in the morning it should be quite bright outside. Upon closer inspection I discovered that it wasn’t night, but that everything was covered in a dark brown/grey from the storm clouds above. There were heavy rains and awesomeawesome thunders during my shower, but it died down immensely afterwards. Which is a good thing as I don’t want to get soaked on the way to work. Normally when it rains, especially in the summer, I won’t give a crap and will just let myself get soaked, absolutely soaked. If I am going to class I’ll just sit in class all cool-like, with a puddle forming at my feet. If I’m going home I’ll just switch into something dry (and inherently more comfortable). But my work clothes? No thanks, those have got to stay dry, I need to be presentable at work. Silly work, making me concerned about things.

12:11

Oh look, a new work reques– wait. No. It’s just another catch all, this time for the training documentation that he wants us to work on. I like how I was added to the WR even though the training documentation is below AutoTester, which is already below everything else.

Yeah.. I highly doubt I’ll get any new work requests between now and next Friday. This should prove to be.. awfully boring..

12:36

As much as I like these turkey pita sandwiches from 7-11, I really need to start getting up earlier, or taking a shorter shower, or something, so that I can spend my bonus points at Center Court for lunch.

BELGIANS IN THE CONGO
..
BRITISH POLITICIAN SEX

I remember way way back, mid to late elementary school, Mary would always giggle at that last line. Honestly, I don’t know if it was because of the sex, the politicians, or that the politicions were british. Sure, it should be pretty easy to guess which word in that line could cause a young girl to giggle, but I honestly have my doubts =P

13:02

Hello PNN, feeling better? I hear you were sick a few days ago.

[…]

13:44

Oh here it comes.. the sleep during tests… I think what I will do after getting home and eating dinner will be to nap. […]

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14:38

In a bid to keep myself awake for the next two and a half hours, I plan to type type type. What about? Could be anything.. anything at all. Law Bulletin doesn’t follow a bi-monthly pay schedule, instead paychecks arrive on the fifth and the twentieth of every month. If the fifth falls on a weekend or holiday, it’s pushed to the next earliest day (for example, the third of July). I should be receiving a paycheck tomorrow for $440. The one that I should be receiving on the twentieth is currently up to $595. Though it is possible, I doubt that next week will ALSO fall on this current check, so I’ll probably have a check coming the fifth of September for another $400. By paying exclusively on the fifth and the twentieth, it creates some oddly defined pay periods, and I’m not quite sure how I feel about it. Sure, it’s a lot more defined than “every other week,” but it’s.. awkward. I expected to get paid last Friday, not this Tuesday. Not that I broke the bank or anything, or came close, but it’s nice to know that money is coming in regularly.

[…]

14:59

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15:26

[…]

Wow, who’da thunk? Actually having something to do has kept me awake! Not only have I been writing this, but I’ve been looking over Mustafa’s timesheet training PDF and helping him out with things here or there. Man, I sure do like being in awake town.

16:04

Oh hello again PNN! How nice of you to keep me company on this day.

[…]

There are currently 478 lines in my script (including white space lines). That’s a lot of lines. I like how this script behaves when I step through it, but not when I tell it to run. What a jerk, yeah?

My car is totally still in the parking lot. We drove by it on the way to the IMAX a couple of weeks back and I definitely had a ticket thing. I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that towings happen after the third violation? Well, my car is still there. Though I really shouldn’t push it any longer.. Ugh, I just need to get that taken care of and drive that fucker back home.

16:40

Just twenty minutes left, and I’m all by my lonesome. Can’t FOR SURE fall asleep now or else I’d be here for hours… And it wouldn’t look to good if I fobbed out of here at eight or nine at night, would it?

Really, I think we all just sit around the last half/hour doing nothing, just waiting for the end to come.

For some reason the days are going by quick. […]

16:47

Wow, that… really cuts down the size of the post. I guess it shows you what’s on my mind as of late.. OR NOT! hahaha