Diary 56: Repeated Off Day

Yesterday I slept at around 3:30 am. Today I woke up at around 10:30 am. I went online and checked mails etc. I had my breakfast, and then moved straight to multi tasking between TV episodes and B2B DX training. With all the JAVA training I am doing, the back end of informatica was getting clearer to me. The issue which has been bogging me for quite a while seemed clearer and I can easily relate to that. Meanwhile I realized that the B2B DX lab guide is done with and only the problem persists. I mailed the update to Gil, and explained him whatever I could understand about the problem. After that, I had my lunch. Earlier, I informed Ankit that I was still not well. I did this so that I can get some time for other stuffs like JAVA and FeastHunt. Anyways, after I was done with the B2B DX, I moved on to JAVA. Today the chapter was interesting because everything was very interactive. The Swing platform created user interfaces and hence was one of the important packages. I was keeping up with the TV episodes too. This went on till the evening, when I had to re-visit the problem I faced in the training. After some 11 mail exchanges, Gil reached a conclusion that we may need to re-install the DX plugin on the server, and he asked us to do it. Now, although I may want to learn how to do it, but I don't want to risk losing a more or less working plugin. I went forward with it, but stopped in mid way. Ankit was also in the loop, but as usual, he had no say in it. After that, I reverted back to JAVA. Later, I had my dinner. After the dinner, I realized that it is the deciding day for the first test between India and WI. So, I tuned in to Ten Sports and was happy to know that India needed only 2 wickets to win the test match. It was a very low scoring Test match, and the pitch was tailor made for a result. Anyways, I got the news later that India won by 63 runs. It is good to use "India" instead of some stupid club's name. Then, I moved back to my room. I found out that Alok to coming to Mumbai tomorrow. So, I may meet him tomorrow. Then, I moved to multi tasking between JAVA and TV episodes. I finished the Day 9 chapter today. I just started with the Day 10. Next, I wrote this diary post. Now, I plan to watch the remaining part of the episode and then go to sleep by 4:00 am.

A 'Not-so-good' JAVA Program

import java.lang.someDictionary.*;

public class addWords {

public addWords() {
String[] words = new String[4];
words = {'excited', 'expert', 'exhausted', 'experienced'};

for ( int i = 0; i < words.length; i++){
words[i] = Concatenate( 's', words[i] );
addtoDictionary(words[i]);
}
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
addWords NewWords = new addWords();
System.out.print (" Enjoy ");
}
}

Diary 55: No Office Again Day

Yesterday I slept at around 3:30 am. But, before that I did some financial analysis on the whole FeastHunt project, and realized that we need some 50-60 clients to achieve break even in 12 months. Anyways, my assumptions were very rough and I used worst case analysis. Today I woke up at around 11:15 am. I had my breakfast and then went online, and checked my mails. I was invisible till around 12:30 pm on my work chat, because I used fever to avoid office. Anyways, I started with training of B2B DX. Gil replied to the problem I mentioned yesterday, but the problem was not solved yet. I moved on to the next exercises. In between I watched a few TV episodes also. I got hold of the JAVA book too, and continued with the Day 9 chapter that I started yesterday. I had a late lunch at around 3:30 pm. Then, continued with the TV episodes. Today I started with the 9th season of CSI:Miami - quite an achievement. I took a bath during the evening. Then I got hold of the guitar and started playing random tunes. The whole evening was spent in the same mode. We had dinner, and then I and my sister spent some time together discussing random things from music, VB, JAVA, Music etc. After that she went to sleep and I started watching TV episodes again. Next, I wrote this post. Now, I plan to watch the remaining part of the episode and then sleep by 2:30 am.

Diary 54: No Office Day

With this post I overtake my previous blog in the number of posts. Yesterday I slept at around 3:30 am. Today I woke up at around 10:20 am. I went online and checked my mails etc. I started multi tasking between TV episodes and B2B DX training. I was finally getting into the comfort zone of B2B DX. The new lab guide was good, and repeating the things cleared a lot of doubts. But still with each doubt cleared, one doubt popped up. So, I am keeping a note of those doubts, which I will ask Gil later. Anyways, the multi tasking went on, I had lunch and kept going. I got stuck in a big way in the lab exercise, due to some fatal error : NoSuchMethodFound error. Now, with all the JAVA codes I have been writing, I realized that the problem is in the back end of Informatica. So, I didn't waste time to mail the problem to Gil. Let's see what he does. After that I was feeling very sleepy, so I decided to take a nap. The nap went on to become a host of delusional dream array. I saw Ajeytaa and Vaibhav in that. I was in Vashi, and was going to Office to Powai (where I don't go anymore). But Ajeytaa refused to go with me, for no good reason. I suddenly woke up, thinking that it is morning time and I have to go to office, but soon realized that it is 6:30 pm. With that heavy head, I woke up and had some Tea, made by Mom. Then, I resumed my TV episode watching. At around 7:30 pm, I took out my electric guitar. It has been a long time since I played it. I cleaned it and then played it, only to realize that my skill set is very limited, and that the strings are in a very bad condition. Anyways, I didn't give up and kept on playing till my sister's tuition teacher came in. During that time, I went back to TV episode watching. After the teacher left, I decided to record something. I found the connecting jack and somehow managed to record something amidst all the electrical noise. Then, I had dinner at around 10:45 pm. Next, I wrote this post. Now, I plan to again record something, watch the loaded TV episodes, start the Day 9 chapter of JAVA book, and then go to sleep by 2:00 am. A wishful thought indeed !

Diary 53: Early Off Day

Yesterday I slept at around 3:45 am. Today I woke up at around 8:00 am, and got ready for office. I went to Sion, along with Dad, and from there to Bandra station. I finally reached office at around 11:10 am. I realized that Ankit is not there in the office yet, and later on I found out that he hasn't left Jodhpur yet. Anyways, I used this free time to have a chat with Alok regarding real time booking systems and also to go over some basic concepts of Data Exchange. At around 3:30 pm, Sushma left because she had some work. I decided that I will also leave early. I left the office at around 4:00 pm, and reached Andheri station at around 4:20 pm. I was very hungry then, so I decided to have a burger and a small coke from the nearby McDonald's. It was bliss. After that I boarded the train and finally reached Kharghar at around 6:20 pm. I reached home, but kept thinking about the hardware issues regarding FeastHunt. My mom told me that there is no milk in the house, and so we will wait for Dad to bring it in. But, I decided to take this chance to go out and talk with few of the hardware providers in my area. So, I went out. I tried explaining my requirement to them, but they were not able to understand. I gave up and came back home with the milk. Then, I decided to take hold of JAVA. I was multi tasking between JAVA and TV episodes. I finally finished the Day 8 of the book. Then, I had dinner and came back to my room. After that, I started deciding strategies based on various categories of client. I also started making a document which could be referred by us and the restaurant owners. It took a long time to make the document, but finally the first draft was ready by around 2:15 am. I mailed the document to Akshay and Dallas. Let's see what opinion they have of it. Next, I wrote this post and now, I plan to watch the remaining episode and then go to sleep by 3:15 am.