My first day back at Lexmark yesterday went fine. I spent most of it listening to others talk, running around, and getting stuff set up, such as my ID card and my computer. I still can’t do much because I’m not fully in the system yet, but hopefully that’ll be cleared up by the end of the week and I can get down to work. So far I’ve been cleaning things up with my project from last time: a Rails program to display and compare data about various printers. There’s real data for me to stuff in the database now, so I’ve got to make sure the system works well with the actual stuff as opposed to just my made-up test data. Beyond that, I’ll be reading up on database design and normalization again in order to rewrite an existing application for more data comparison. It’s done in PHP with MySQL currently but I’m thinking Rails would be better, if I can easily port the PHP chart-creating app that’s tied in with it. That’ll be the hairy part.

Todd and I ran by the mall earlier to pick him up some new clothes for work. He’s tired of paying high prices at the dry cleaner (~$6 per shirt! ha!), so he wanted some nice clothes that he could put in the washer. It’s fun getting to pick out clothes for a guy when he admits he knows jack about what looks good. I hooked him up with some pretty polos and khakis, so he’ll be looking stylin’ at work.

Tomorrow the girls and I will be having movie + dinner night and we’re going to use up some of the massive amounts of food that Mom sent me back with. The menu so far is some of my parents’ corn, green beans, and tomatoes, plus probably chicken to work in some protein. I love corn on the cob. Does anyone else have experience with cooking it? I know when Ashlee made it last time, she boiled those ears for about an hour. My mom’s response to that when I told her was shock; she gets the water boiling and then drops them in for about three minutes. When I told Jess this, she was shocked and leaned more toward Ashlee’s method. What do you guys do?

Holy crap, I got a B in Physics II! I was so excited to see that, as were my parents and Todd of course. I made C’s on the first tests, A’s on the homework, and maybe a C or B on the third test. I made a C in the first physics course and I figured that’s what I’d get in this one, so I was quite tickled to get a B in there. I checked my grade report online like a mad woman over the weekend, but it only got posted yesterday.