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Day 144

11/13/2012

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Day 144: There is something special about a Bond movie, and Skyfall is no exception.  I'm not going to review it, but you should see it.  I saw it at the Esquire IMAX, and that theater is always just a bit of an adventure regardless of what you're seeing.  It's just such a grand old space, and the building has just wonderful lines.

THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT SKYFALL.  It's actually about how happy I am.  For some reason.

In point of fact, I spent most of today with a huge smile on my face.

I have a job that not a lot of people would enjoy, but there are days when I genuinely love it.  I get to play with computers and learn neat new technologies every day.  Here in California, I'm learning DataStage, which is a tool for moving and manipulating data.  It's very slick and fun.  It's kind of like someone gave me a paintbrush and said, "Okay, go nuts.  And we're going to pay you for this."  The sensation of genuinely enjoying what I do for a living is something I recognize as special.  I've known people my whole life who have worked at jobs that they hate.  I know that in a lot of cases there aren't a lot of other options, and that even the very worst job in the United States allows us to reach a standard of living far above most of the rest of world.  Having said that, I am quite pleased that I get genuine satisfaction from figuring out how to parse a string using the FIELD() function, or coming up with an elegant way to extrapolate an end date from the next begin date, or just thinking up a new way that I can break the thing I built, and then building it even stronger.

In other news, it's possible that I'm a gigantic nerd.

Ahem.

I leave my job, and head to hang out with friends, and go to see a good movie at a grand theater.  It was a pretty good day, I gotta say.

Tomorrow, ADVENTURE!!  :)


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