a fruit basket and card
From my new employer. How nice. The sweatshirt is incredibly boring, though.

I will be going to San Jose on Jun 2 for orientation. That lasts from morning until evening on Monday, and half the day on Tuesday. At that length it has better be good. If people try to make me do "I'm a little teacup" participation exercises I just stare at them until they call on the next person.

I had to work a half day today on an urgent bug today despite being on vacation.

I'm about to begin writing on file cards and spreading them around in various arrangements. If you know me you know what that means. Or maybe you don't. It's a simple technique for bringing order to a sprawling subject domain. Many cards are set aside. Some are rewritten again & again. Some never change. Many have additional notes attached. They are put in piles and then taken out or copied into other piles. The result is a draft outline.

I am also considering bringing the Yi and/or Tarot oe bear on my side writing project. I don't usually do that but in this case I have a feeling it just may work. The problem space there has a few great and solid pillars within it, but bridges are not as yet woven across the abysses between them. The Tarot might be superior for this project given its imagistic quality and that the end result would be in a visual medium. Personally I tend to favor the Yi.

I have a few other side projects that I want to get to the two-page treatment level before I have to put on the shirt. I'm not too worried yet, although of course, I haven't yet gotten as far as I'd hoped.

Addendum. 4:18PM. My four-figure tax refund check has finally arrived, as I broke open the new deck and laid the new pen upon the cards. I think I will take a quick trip to the bank. Quite a change from being in the red since last week! And tomorrow I get paid for two weeks of overtime, my last automatic deposit as a contractor.