End of week two.

Two weeks in NYC -- the jury so far is that it's good to visit, but not to stay. It takes a lot of you to have to compete for EVERYTHING; from the little spit of space on the subway train to the that apartment next to the park. Everything is about competition - New York City style.

Work has been an adjustment for sure. People here are quite bright and have quite a bit of moxy. There are some egos here, but people are, for the most part, OK. It's been difficult for me to learn the systems and processes. They expect people to be good at all aspects of systems work ... servers, networks, phone systems, databases, scripting... the list goes on. Today, they had me swap out the power supply of Solaris v480R machine. I had no idea even where to begin. This type of thing seems to get harder as one gets older.

I'm glad the weekend is here.