As with the rest of D.C., things around here are pretty quiet as August draws to a close. Even the local media are taking the month off, it seems; the most notable thing I’ve seen recently is yet another Roll Call staffer joining our ranks, the second this summer. (Mike Grass, of course, being the other one.)
So what am I doing? Well, this week, I’m learning a foreign language, of a sort, courtesy of my employer. I’m sure Adam and Jorge will be suitably horrified that it’s Red Hat and not Ubuntu, but what can you do. At least I’ll be able to double my computer-related certification count by the time I go back to my regular job on Sunday. So far, it’s been pretty enlightening; I’ve already learned about things that I sort of knew about but didn’t fully understand, and I’m going to be learning more about the system as a whole. It doesn’t apply specifically to my work with Express, but a little extra knowledge never hurt. Besides, we already have enough Windows gurus at work.
So far, the hardest part is adapting to a nine-to-five schedule again, even temporarily. Thankfully, the training is in Columbia, MD, a peaceful and quite pretty twenty-minute drive north of home — and a reverse-commute to boot, since everybody else is heading the other direction south into D.C. in the mornings and back to the suburbs in the evening. The other training location option was in Tysons Corner, close to twice as far away. Across the northern stretch of the Capital Beltway. And the American Legion Bridge. During rush-hour. Um, pass.
Anyway, things will likely continue to be slow around here for the next week or so. (Control yourselves.)
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