A month goes by faster than you think

 Sadly I seem to be falling back in to my old patterns of diary keeping – that is I write a lot at the start, then tend to tail off a little and start writing very sporadically indeed. 

Now, part of that is down to having major heart surgery, and getting back in to the swing of returning to work. However I am going to try to get back to the swing of writing more often, because otherwise I might just as well give up and delete the journal.

Anyway – as you will have gathered, I am back at work full time now. This is the start of my second full time week, and it is going pretty well. I admit I have fallen asleep in work once or twice, but mostly I am staying awake throughout the day and only having occasional naps at home.

Things have changed a lot at work – three staff have resigned and moved on to other jobs while a few more have left for other reasons. All in all, it has been a pretty turbulent time – more so than at any other point in Hive History except for what has become known as The Great Purge in 1989 – a large number of staff were discovered to have been hacking in to the control system at The Hive and embezzling funds and other money to their own accounts. A total of thirteen staff were dismissed, twelve of whom went to jail – the thirteenth apparently fled the country and hasn’t been seen since.

Since then recruitment procedures have tidied up a bit, and there hasn’t been anywhere near that level of problems since then – the last major problem was in 1999 when one of the Code Monkeys was caught using company time and resources to start her own software firm. Again she was summarily dismissed, and that was the last time. 

Meanwhile I have started working on twin mobile applications – under iOS and Android – to help with stock taking, security and customer support. So far it is going quite well – and I am, once again, learning just how good a computer programmer I am. Before two weeks ago, I had never touched a Mac or an iPad, let alone tried to write software for them. And yet already I have figured out how to do almost all of what I need to do – WebService interaction, Database Management, View processing and xml parsing.

I rarely blow my own trumpet, because I am not that conceited a person, but I am fast becoming sure I am a very good programmer – maybe one of the best in the company. 

(And I am quite glad people from The Hive don’t read this, because otherwise I will get the crap kicked out of me tomorrow)

Anyway – today was spent designing XML Schemas and data files, and tomorrow is going to be spent processing them. Which is probably going to be a little bit fun, or just entirely repetitive and very boring.

But for now – story writing. Because although I have started writing an Android application of my very own, I am only doing it at the weekend so I don’t spend all day and all night programming.