First day back at work after vacation is always nuts. Inbox overflowing with mail, most of which was urgent–at least, it was last week, but is past due and/or therefore no longer urgent. We have self-evaluations due in a couple days–and I wasn’t here last week to work on that, so after an hour or so of doing nothing but reading all the emails, and then spending a half hour making a list of all the things I need to be working on and take care of…I spent anohter half hour chasing around trying to track down my last year’s performance evaluation to get a copy of the goals I was supposed to explain whether I met them or not.
Other than that though, its been a pretty quiet day, no people dropping by to pile more work on my desk because they’re still all in “is she still out on vacation?” mode. The stuff I’m working on right now in Java (instead of C), which is cool, cuz oooh, *drools at being able to do real code reuse without copy/paste*, but at the same time is really ugly because Java does not have unsigned data types. Ohh, but they do have unsigned bit shifting–go figure that one. So its a new and different challenge, and the particular code I’m doing (message structures/classes) is pretty straightforward just a lot of work to do, few questions to need to ask. Good stuff.