Cinco De Mayo

Today is code complete, Cinco De Mayo, and a good day for another reason I will share later. I got to work with the idea that today is code complete. There were a couple small bugs for me in the pipeline. I got them cleared out right away. The guys wanted to go out for lunch. We went to Q-Doba for lunch.

Following lunch we were on the way back to the office we were talking about working from home and why I am one of the only ones in the company allowed to do it. Chris says I was grandfathered in because Terry promised it to me. When we got to the office Chris said he wanted to see me in his office. I was a bit worried about what. I got there and someone was talking to me about something. After a minute or two, it appeared the conversation would take longer so I asked her to give me a minute with Chris and I would see her at her desk.

Chris walked over and I thought he was going to shut his door. That is enough to make me worry. Then he picked up a dry-erase pen and wrote a five digit number on the white-board. I then realized that I got my raise! I was so stoked! It was a ten-per-cent raise. I was only thinking I would get four or five at best. So I walked to my desk on cloud-nine. It is fun to think about how much I am making now.

I spent some time with Ricky trying to figure out what is not working correctly on the login feature of my application. It appears that it could be on the Sollen side. But I am not sure. We will have to do more work on it.

I stayed there until nearly seven o’clock. But I wanted to get going because Brandy, from last years’ Maulers team was having a house warming party with Cinco De Mayo mixed in. When I got there I was given some alcohol. Following that I got three shots of tequila. I was feeling just right. Not too blitzed, but able to feel the warming of the alcohol. I just hung out talking to people.

Around nine o’clock we broke the pinata. I got a couple good wacks on that. I also got some more alcohol out of the deal.