More Interviewing and Weather
Today in a slightly different order...
I had some really good interviews on Friday. Glad to have them. Both groups thought I was more than qualified for their projects/positions, and I was able to really talk to both of them at the depth that I want to to try and get to know someone. The first person believed they had the ideal group I've always been looking for - but I think he was a little too impressed with my qualifications. I got the sense after he said "You're more than qualified for any position we have..." that he was concerned that I might not like being at the level I would be at in his group. Don't know. I'll certainly have to learn more about that place before I can make a decision.
The second place was a gas - huge new project, lots of problems, lots of visibility, very little time. RedHat Linux is a target platform, and that's an overall combination that's very attractive to me. The work would be in a large distributed computing environment and there would be all kinds of challenges to overcome. When we pulled it off, it would certainly be an impressive feat. Very much a career highlight project.
Don't know what will happen, but it's great to have good interviews.
I had a problem on Saturday with getting the weather forecast from The Weather Channel. I think the most likely possibility is that the MediaOne cable modem went down. This is aggrivating. What I decided I needed to do was to make it a little more robust and put in a looping mechanism that would re-try the grab after a delay of 10 mins. This seemed reasonable, and I put in a fail-safe that if the time became 11:00 am, it'd fail outright. Hopefully, this will mean that I have less problems missing data from the moring pulls.
On the CIA front, Joel has been trying to get a lot of work done as quickly as possible in the last few days of this week. He's going on vacation next week, and wanted to get something for Dako to look at before he left. I had plans, and that made for a conflict that I'm not at all sure Joel was happy with the outcome. But that's life... The Dako slides seem to be giving the code a hard time, but I honestly haven't done more than put the slides in the system, and run two of them through. I didn't spend any time looking at the results, but when I do we'll see how well we're handling the Her2 process, in general.
Also, it's the end of March, and it's snowing outside. I'm tired of the cold. This has been a very long, hard winter, and I'm ready for a break.