man, i am definitely ready for the weekend. it was a stressful week, with the chip debug and all. i'm not sure if they'll need me to work over the weekend, but if i do get called in, i'll be a little miffed, to say the least. i need my rest!
so i had a farewell lunch for A, whose last day at the company is today. we skipped the free lunch today (it was thai food) at the office and met up with oh and viet at giovanni's for some tasty pizza. i'm sad A is leaving, but it was just time for him to go; he has been with the company (in all three incarnations) for ten years, from the initial startup phase all the way til now, and he's going to a place he's excited about, so i just wish him the best. farewell!
so tonight is mikeC's birthday celebration, and tomorrow is paul's bachelor party day. the guys are waking up at an ungodly hour (like 4am) to go fishing in the pacific ocean, so naturally (since i don't fish, and i can't wake up that early), i'm not going to that. but i'm joining them for dinner (at birk's in santa clara) and the "activities" at night. i still don't know what we're doing after dinner, so i'm sort of curious as to what's going to happen. i'll just remember to bring lots of cash.
so apparently, jeopardy is having a college tournament. i was surfing channels last night and found it by accident, and the three finalists are from UCLA, notre dame, and stanford. it's a two-day finale, and tonight's the second day. i hope the stanford guy wins, of course. he was the only person to get the final jeopardy question right, and he trails the ucla guy by only a few thousand bucks. the winner, btw, gets $100K.
so now that the weather is warmer, i've stopped wearing my beloved puma jackets. (when it was even colder, i wore zip-up sweatshirts, and then switched to puma jackets as it warmed up.) today, i'm wearing a t-shirt and an open button-down shirt. the button-down i'm wearing now is one of my favorites, by banana republic. BR used to make such good stuff, but now it's all preppy and overpriced. ick. by the way, what color is periwinkle? nevermind. i just looked it up. fyi, it's "a light purplish blue." the internet is awesome. :)
i think i sprained my right middle finger. i am an avid knuckle popper, and it hurts when i try to pop that finger. ouchie! i'm not sure how it happened. maybe i was a bit overzealous in popping it, and i bent it a bit too far. did you know that i once sprained my own ankle? i was trying to pop it with my bare hands, and i twisted it so far that i let out a huge crack, and the next day, it was swollen, and i couldn't walk. it was really stupid, i know. the worst thing was, it happened at the end of the school year, and i had to move my stuff into storage. what ended up happening is that my friends had to move my shit for me. i feel bad about that.
hm. i'm ticcing a bit more today. i think it's the result of the cumulative stress that i've been going through this week at work. it's amazing how sensitive i am to stress. i'm like a live ticcing barometer to the stuff. hopefully i can rest up this weekend and go back to a calmer state by next week.
anyways, despite the stress, we (as a team) got a lot done this week, ever since the chip came back on sunday. we solved a lot of problems, and even though there are still some issues remaining, we've made good progress in the chip bringup. let's hope this bears fruit, and we can win some good customers. until then, have a STUPENDOUS weekend folks!