Mike Oren.com

This past week has been a long, fairly interesting week. It started out mundanely enough, just the normal grind of the work week, but then Wed. on my drive back from work, a minivan hit the passenger side of my car just behind the back tire while trying to merge into my lane. I stopped and they pulled in front of me and continued on. I got their license plate number though and had to go stop at a toll booth and wait (40 min.) for a state trooper to file the police report (which I did on Friday evening). I also had a nice long meeting Wed. or Thurs. discussing the current state of a Microsoft Reporting Services plug-in that the company I'm working for was building. Since the product is supposed to be released to manufacturing in two weeks, they decided to more than double the number of developers and testers on the area and just totally slam it (the plug-in had only reached a truly testable state the week before). So then Friday I had to train one of the new people working on it on how to create reports using the plug-in, and then in the afternoon I had to show EVERYBODY some of the features of Microsoft Reporting Services (since I was the person on the team with the most experience designing/laying out reports). So that was both fun and somewhat irksome, as I only have a few days left to get my tasks done before I leave for vacation/graduation. On my drive home from work thouh, I won a Q101 radio contest--tickets to the Q101 Block Party (featuring Taking Back Sunday, Angels and Airwaves, the Subways, and one other band that I don't remember) PLUS CD's from Taking Back Sunday and Angels and Airwaves--so I thought that was REALLY awesome--and that means I've won just about every type of contest now (carnival games, random drawings, internet entry games, essay contests, and radio contests). And then the week ended with me going into work Sat. for about 4.5 hours and then me making my mom breakfast for Mother's Day this morning--more of a champagne brunch than just normal breakfast...