Category: Work Stuff

metamorphosis (met-uh-mawr-fuh-sis) : A change in an animal as it grows, particularly a radical change, such as the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly. The last few weeks of my life have been very… interesting… to say the least. To be more precise, they have been very disruptive, frustrating, stressful, maddening, confusing, difficult, sleep-depriving, and hard. After having worked for the Rite Aid Corporation for 13 years, I was offered a job by the CVS/Pharmacy Corporation. The last position I held with Rite Aid was “Master Systems Engineer.” The position I have accepted with CVS/Pharmacy is “IS Architect, Technology.” It certainly seems to be a step up from a career standpoint. This change requires my little family and I Read more…

To borrow from the uber-classic Office Space…. =:) It was a pretty good day at work today. And it’s rather rare that I come home thinking that. Aw, come on–don’t look at me like that. You can’t possibly come home every day thinking “man, what a fantastic, wonderful, groovily delicious day it was at work today!” Anyway, I got to do some pretty interesting, decently-low-level stuff with our custom Swing components today. That and some really cool introspective bean work at the end of the day. As a matter of fact, I stayed rather late into the evening (well, 2 hours late anyway–which is late for me) just to be able to finish what I was working on. So, what Read more…