My flesh is showing

I went rock climbing last night and I totally ripped up my right, pinky finger. The skin was hanging on, so I just cut it off when I got home. It really hurt to shower!! =O When you're missing flesh on your finger, it hurts to work out and pick up things, hehehe... =)

My Office

I basically have my own office at work!! =) A while ago (which really is like 6 months ago) there were 3 people at the 3 desks in my office. A couple months ago, one of them left our group. A summer intern replaced him. The other guy who still works in the office also decided to move to Oregon, and commute to Mountain View every week. Because of that, he only comes in 1 or 2 days a week. Last friday was the intern's last day, so from now on, I will have the entire office to myself most of the week! How many people can say that! =) I can't be naked or anything though, since my desk faces the hallway and that "wall" is a full window... =)

365 days later

I've been working for exactly 1 year now!! Wow, time flies... Having a nice job where they keep you busy and pay you is awesome, but I miss the relaxing 2 years at Stanford MSCS with tennis, golf, yoga, guitar, hip-hop... =)

1 year old

I got my awesome car on this day, one year ago!! =) I should celebrate by installing a subwoofer... I'll probably just pay it off in the next couple months, so I can have 1 less bill. Then, the car will truly be mine! =)

Quick is Deadly

I think I am a little quicker/faster than before. It must be the jumping excercises I have been doing recently. I actually haven't done much speed work or sprints, but the jumps squats seem to be effective. My butt sure does hurt afterwards... I notice improvements in my tennis game. Just this morning, I got to some balls I probably shouldn't have been able to touch. That's awesome! =) Now, I just gotta get less lazy and move my feet more or something...

I saw this new Nike commercial on tv with LT showing off all his cool moves and speed and quickness. "Quick is Deadly" is the tag line. I really liked that commercial. I love football!! =)

Bison

The past couple of days at work have been a little crazy. I've been looking at a performance regression with the MySQL 5.0 parser. Basically, what happened was that the grammar describing the SQL language was change a lot from MySQL 4.0, probably to conform better to the standard. However, this change made the common/simple case a lot slower than before. It took me a while to figure out what was happening with it, but it was pretty fun to be directly using something learned in class. I had to review some class notes to remember some of the details, but this issue is kinda like a problem set. Well, more like a problem set on crack. But, anyways, it is pretty cool to be able to directly apply my expensive education, which I am paying back now and for a while, hehehe... However, I *may* have to work on this grammar crap a little this weekend, and hopefully get it out of the way for next week. =/