It’s been a while but I haven’t forgotten about the blog. I’ve just been busy wrapping up a successful visit with a large enterprise customer. They left the EEC impressed overall after their testing of SQL Server 2005 and meetings with the Indigo team. One of their main concerns was seeing how features of some future MS releases would impact their current architecture as they had to make a choice between us and a few other software providers who shall remain nameless. After meeting with the product teams personally to discuss these matters and running high availability and disaster recovery scenarios for one of their logging applicatons, they feel confident about moving forward with our messaging and database platforms. I've also put my developer hat back on for a while to do some coding for an internal project for our Technology Adoption Program along with lots of other random stuff that keeps things interesting. Additionally, I recently learned why they call it ‘March Madness’; because people get ‘mad’ at you for trying to watch every game (Come on, Tar Heels!) . Anyway, it’s been a busy few weeks and the weather has been phenomenal here in Seattle which has me looking forward to the summer, but…

…Being a recent grad now here in the corporate world, the fact that I no longer have a traditional, old-school summer vacation is just starting to hit me. Sure there are holidays and breaks here and there but it’s just not the same. I guess they call if full-time for a reason. Ironically, I spent the summers of '00-'03 here interning at MS ('04 traveling). But that was different.  I guess you could say, then, Microsoft was a vacation destination, but now it’s a career and there's no place to run off to for 3 months. I think I learned as much about computer science during those summers here as I did in school, so it was all education. But I learned so many “life lessons” and had so much fun in college, I don't appreciate my time there any less. I guess I just have to finish getting used to the real world. Maybe I should see a psychologist about why I feel this way. Or would that be a psychiatrist? I always get those mixed up. Actually, I’ll just stop whining and get back to work on Monday. I’m sure the summer will still be fun.

 

S.