• 1:22 AM
  Boy, it sure is Monday!

I'm back at work. Same place! They haven't made quite as much headway towards getting me through the new employee process as they would've liked, but I'm sitting here at a desk, set up how I like, with net access. How is this possible?

Well, it's my same desk from half a year ago. All the office supplies I stocked the file drawer with are there. The computer is in the same place, and so are the whiteboard markers.

In fact, they haven't erased my whiteboard since I left. The diagrams of my last project are on it, as well as the little cartoon guy I drew that says "bye!" (I just changed him to be waving "Hi!" instead.)

My computer hasn't even been rebooted or shut down. The screensaver that kicked in 15 minutes after I left, last august, was still running when I sat down. My desktop icons and doodad files are in the same place. My browser was still open, with the various test pages and references still open. I am just now running windows update to get the last 6 months of patches on there.

There were only two changes: the hub was removed from the network cable (disconnecting my way-out-of-date security-risk computer from the world), and someone moved my chair (natch).

You see why I like this place so much? They kept a shrine to me!

And man, I've been slacking. I have to make an entry about the hugs counter.