Yessir, I've been working. Readjusting to daily life out among people. Actually supporting someone else's computer. Having to be careful not to break things while fixing other things. A lot of adjusting to be done.

Many things are coming back via associative memory, which is good. A few of the harsher lessons I'm getting to learn over again. (I'm just talking about procedures to use to ensure that I don't make things worse.)

On the big plus side is that one of the senior sysadmins is making a habit of handing me the stuff that he's having trouble with or just not having the time to do. So far, with only the exception of a hardware failure, I've handled them all, which is a good sign for me.

I took advantage of having the CDs to SuSE 8.2 available to upgrade my home machine. Why, why, why does that have to be so painful? So many things broke during the upgrade. I've got about 50 lines in my “problems” file, all of which I've taken care of with the exception of printing.

(It's been almost 3 weeks— shows how much I need to have printing available to me. Well, at least when I have a job. It was pretty vital when I was looking for a job.)