Rain

My first full fall in Seattle, we had 100 straight days of precipitation. That was 6 years ago. So, coming out of a very dry, and extremely beautiful summer, it's always good to get October off to a wet start. We've had over 3 inches of rain, I believe, in October alone. This more than doubles the previous record. Very lovely.

On Sunday, a co-worker and I are off to Minneapolis for two weeks of training by the new company we both work for, as a result of the acquisition of our previous employer. I'm looking forward to the trip, as it can be fun to learn new things, but I'm a bit nervous.

When my previous employer acquired an Australian firm, one of our support people was sent to Brisbane to train their support people on our products. The project failed horribly, and the person in Australia was fired from 8000 miles away, coming back to the states with no job. Of course, he screwed up badly and deserved to be fired, but that still worries me that our little office here in Seattle could end up somewhat as screwed up as the office in Australia. At least we're going back to the mothership for training instead of having one of their goofballs coming to us. Even still, it's a challenge to have 6 people doing support in Seattle whilst the mothership has 20+ doing support out of Minneapolis. I just have a bad feeling we'll always be behind on information, training, knowledge, etc. We could end up being hated by the support people in Minnesota, if we can't integrate well into their organization.

So anyway, lots of reading, studying, and cramm^H^H^Hlearning is ahead of me. Not to mention being thrown into the fire, a.k.a. the phone queue. Can't wait :-P