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[whispercricket]

Yesterday was a long, long day in many ways (the most concrete being at the office until 8:15, but I actually succeeded at what I needed to do). Came home, watched "Finding Neverland", crashed.

Work: Saying goodbye over and over again is hard. I actually went into the Escalation Manager's office and opened the conversation with, "I'm so sorry" (to which his answer was, "Sorry for what?" - and that of course is the correct answer to an unnecessary statement, but this is one of the guys who interviewed me 5 years ago - I didn't know what to say, but it didn't seem like I should just ignore it and go straight to work). Steve (the escalations engineer for my group) left for vacation, which meant that I had to say an actual goodbye to him - despite working with him pretty much every workday for the last few years, I may never see him again. That's a really strange feeling.

House: Finding a house painter may be a case of choosing one who actually called back and praying that it works out okay. I'm still worried about the paint dust, but since no one else seems to be, I'm just going to hope that I'm overdoing it.

New! job: My father desperately wants to buy me Perl and PHP books. I know I can get some paid for by my workplace when I start, but this will make him very happy. Besides Learning Perl and the other O'Reilly Perl books, any suggestions? I'll be doing some research, but I'd rather get feedback from people I know.

Other:
Listening to Rent can be dangerous (but hopefully in a good way).

Quotes, underline, and bold all in the same post - so exciting! :)

Comments

[sonata960.livejournal.com]

We like our painters - Morningstar Painters, 617-899-5368.

[whispercricket]

Thank you!

If you have the time, and you're willing to share any specifics about what they did and why you liked them (doesn't have to be very long or anything), please feel free to let me know, either here or in e-mail (username at livejournal works fine).

[sonata960.livejournal.com]

They did the exterior of our house, trim, and subcontracted fixing our 3-level deck. They didn't rush the job, and were willing to touch-up/complete anything we felt wasn't completely right. Even after being fully paid, they came back to redo the front porch (it was completed in December, and didn't stand up to the weather). They also fixed our damaged ceiling in our dining room/kitchen, you can't even tell it was damaged at all. They were very affordable, stuck to the estimate, and Jeffeson, the owner, is a really nice guy.

We plan on using them again for other parts of the house.

Painters

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

We had University Painters do the exterior of our house. They came when they said they would, they stuck to their estimate. They cleaned up virtually all of the paint chips on the ground from the powerwashing. I had only one quibble with their work - some blue on the white windowframes on the family room (and they offered to fix it, but I said don't bother). And they left me the fractional cans of leftover paint so I can do touchups.

Re: Painters

[whispercricket]

Thank you!

[keshwyn]

Given that I learn code better if I have somebody's example to use, I love the O'Reilly Cookbooks - I don't know if The O'Reilly PHP Cookbook is any good, because I don't have it yet, but I love the Perl Cookbook. However, you can get that as part of the O'Reilly Perl CD Box (fourth edition of the thing that I loaned you) so if I had someone who wanted to buy me books for PHP and Perl, those links are the two I'd go for. :)

*hug* *bouncebouncebounce*

[doozer4200.livejournal.com]

Yay Rent! :-)

Perl Books

[ameliaamy.livejournal.com]

Scott has O'Rielly's "Programming Perl," "Perl Cookbook," and "Advanced Perl Programming."

I believe he finds the Cookbook the most helpful.

As for PHP, I only have 1 book, and it's at work, and a few years old. So I'm not much help. Can't go wrong with O'Reilly.

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

"We're not gonna pay.
We're not gonna pay.
We're not gonna pay last year's rent..."