soid | Monday, June 17 New Project and Mouse at Home

Woke up around 8:15. What happened to the alarm at 7:30? I couldn't tell. I didn’t hear it. I was surprised to wake up feeling cold. It’s supposed to be hot already, is it not? But cold wind still blows from the open window at night. That’s pleasant, of course.

I stayed home; we had the standup at 9:30. Angela already has Jira access and has started working on a ticket. That is too fast: I got my email working only on the second week. Jira took longer to add me to. Then another stand-up at 10. We have two standups on Mondays, somehow. My plan was: anything from Ryan’s code review, then SMS pumping, and then getting started on the new project.

The new project is to read a low-latency data feed and bring some better data in our app. What to do with that I’m still not sure. Torrey told me to talk to Sunny about the details. Sunny said we should talk together with Will and Dan W. So I brought everyone together, and then they mostly talked by themselves, and in the second half, I barely understood what they were talking about. A bunch of keywords, and what that means I didn’t know. PA/CIS, ATS, PLC, and the like. I had no idea what it was.

In the evening, at first, I saw something dark moving by my side on the floor and got scared; then I saw a tiny mouse running near the heater. A very small mouse of the length of my little finger. The mouse ran kind of funny: sliding on the corner, as the fat belly dragged it from turning to under the heater, and it moved the limps fast, sliding on the parquet floor. The mouse probably was surprised by seeing me not less than I got scared by her. She looked kind of cute, but for the rest of the evening I had that fear of the dumb mouse just wanting to bite whatever came to it – I was afraid it would bite my toe if it got under my desk.