Normal People
January 11th, 2006After working with and around nerds and computar people for so long I’d sort of gotten used to a certain kind of social environment and over-the-cube-wall chatter. In the last six months though I’ve been almost completely surrounded by relatively non-technical (relative to all the programmers anyway) business analysts. Which means that now the conversations I overhear deal with golf, diets, and the goings on of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. That’s not a bad thing at all, it only stands out because it’s (I’m assuming) what most idle work conversations deal with. It’s sort of my brief venture into a world of normal people. At least they’re talking about something other than work or how much software product A is “teh best!” or “teh suck.”
In other news I bought a TV last night. I’m already feeling a bit of buyers remorse, but mostly about the timing and priority. I was laying in bed last night thinking about how instead of that TV I could have gotten a truly bitchin’ stove which, quite frankly, I would have enjoyed more. But the TV was going to get bought eventually and the stove is going to get bought eventually so I just screwed up the order out of some weird sense of TV urgency. It’s a nice TV though, even if it’s HD capabilities are going woefully to waste at the hands of the tivo. Might be time to upgrade the hard drive in that thing and start recording everything at best quality…
