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May 29th, 2009

I’m still alive, but I’ve been busy.

I have a new job contracting for Johnson Controls, doing work on a system that takes real time data from HVAC monitoring systems, and publishes it to a spiff web interface.  I get to fiddle with all kinds of new technology tools and design practices, and also learn about HVAC from Rhiannon.  Hello, learning curve.

There is an odd catch to it.  I work in a large, featureless, room with three other developers, and no cube walls.  It’s as though the office was laid out by a rather lazy dungeonmaster.

“You open the door to discover a 20′x20′ room containing four orcs, who are all wearing headphones.  There is a treasure chest in the center of the room.  The orcs have not noticed you.  You may roll for initiative.”

We move offices soon.

In other news, in the last three weeks I’ve been in two sketch shows, three long form Improv performances, and one performance for Alzheimer’s caregivers, which was last night.  We rehearsed like hell for the latter, and it made for a good show, and a lot of fun. The audience dug it.

I think I might be getting a little better at this performance thing, but I still don’t know exactly where I fall on the scale of competence.  You can split competence in a skill into four phases, right?

• Unconcious Incompetent   (You suck, and you don’t realize it)
• Concious Incompetent       (You suck, but you’re aware of it, and trying to improve)
• Unconcious Competent      (You’re good, but you still think of yourself as bad, and want improvment)
• Concious Competent          (You are good, and you know it.  Clap your hands.)

I’m somewhere in the CI / UC range, and I have no idea where.  The only thing to do is practice.  Well, practice after taking some time off for myself.

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