free zune..... heyoooo

won't argue with getting a free zune? pretty cool customized on the back 8 gb zune. seems like it might be able to compete with an ipod. i'll see cause i do love my ipod.

work is work?

this past week has been the most stressful week of work ever and the days have gone from 8 am to 630 pm and later every day of the week. not that cool. its been real hard but it looks like it should settle down in another week or two. i think its only like this now because we are in the middle of a release.

my job

so friday was a good day for me. after a couple meetings with my manager and the manager of our team we nailed down what my role on the team will be pretty well. i am on the cvp team which lives in the IT group, cvp stands for the customer velocity platform team. we pretty much build web apps for the website that is a connection for microsoft business customers and microsoft. this is definitely a relief as now i have something to grasp and start focusing on. i was originally placed as a developer which would definitely have been interesting as i have never truly wrote much code before. but anyways, my manager told me that it wasn't a big deal since they were also looking for a PM anyways so that it would be best to just place me there. so my role will be as a PM (program manager) which is sweet because thats what i had originally wanted to do when i first interviewed with them. basically i will be a middle man between the businesses and the developers, through meeting with the business reps and seeing what our customers want in our product, i will spec that up to present to the developers to decide on what can be done and the best way to do it. i think this will be a great role for me and something i will definitely be able to excel and succede at. so yea that starts on monday and should be cool so hopefully i can get up to speed quickly and start impressing some people.

1st day at MS

My picture on a huge projection screen in one of lobbys of a microsoft building. And a picture of what was in the middle of my table during orientation - rubicks cube, candy, silly putty, some tentacle thing, a twisty tubes toy, and of course legos.

first days here

so sorry i've taken so long to get this deal started. been a little crazy getting settled in at home and work, just finally got my room cleaned and set. annnddddd now its going to have to wait a little bit longer because the sabres just came back and tied the game vs. the stars with 3 goals in the 3rd. yea. LETS GO BUFFALO! ...............

.... k after an awesome 7 round, i think, shootout win, im back. haha so yea seattle is pretty legit so far. it was sorta funny how i told everyone that the rain was just a myth and it wasn't really like that but then when we showed up it was pouring rain and there was a major flooding problem.  the gray and rain lasted for 5 days until i saw any sun at all but i did at last get my first sunny day yesterday and it was beautiful. the rain still is partly a myth however because this recent flooding being an exception, it doesn't actually rain a lot when it does rain, its more of a sprinkle or mist most days with a lot of clouds. 

im living on the east side in a town called newcastle which is just south of bellevue. its really nice and its a sick location with lots of stuff right around and a great commute to work so that i dont even have to take any expressways which can be bad here due to some serious traffic during rush hours. 

my place is a real nice condo that is already fur

nished by my roommate kyle who owns it, except for my room which did still have a desk and dresser in it for me to use. yes, i am living with another kyle. they just seem to be the coolest kinds of people. hes a good guy who i think im going to continue to get along with real well. he works as a programmer at a small start up in bellevue.

on to microsoft. the first two days were new employee orientation so that was pretty long but it was pretty helpful and informative, and we got some free stuff so thats always cool. actually won a free xbox 360 game too. everything is just so sweet there, they've got the surface tables all over the place and everywhere you look there is technology. the campus is huge and beautiful. basically they have one main campus and redmond and then other smaller campuses all over the puget sound area. i was pleasantly surprised to find that their cafeterias have awesome food at real low prices which def makes me happy cause i love food. a possible issue though could be the starbucks machine right by my office where you can get free coffees, hot cocoa, and spiced cider. i am on the cvp (customer velocity platfo

rm) team. more to come about what that actually means as i dont even have a complete grasp on what my job will exactly be yet. should have that figured out in the next day or two depending on my manager's decision. but yea ill get back to you then. later. heres a pic to prove its official.