Extra Foods on Confederation Way, close to the Cartier and Parsons housing
I've been slowly getting work, at the moment I've been given 3 different duties: decommissions, which is going through some paperwork for getting rid of programs that are not used, or broken and not worth fixing; testing, which is testing to see if our applications work without error on a new environment the company is switching to; and access requests, which is getting approval and getting access to users for applications and databases they need to use. As a computing science student, I was really expecting to do some programming, scripting, something I've been doing for the last 4 years. However, I think the paperwork, and calling users to ask questions or request stuff is really helping my ability to just talk to random people with confidence.
Superstore, which is downtown near the mall
So far the access request I've been given, just today actually, are probably the most enjoyable to do so far, since they're very easy to just rip through. Testing so far is my second most enjoyable, but the only reason is because I'm still waiting to actually test the applications. Decommissions are my least favourite, simply because it requires a huge amount of paperwork, lots of contacting users and other people, signing of paperwork, and mostly because when I started doing them I didn't know who to talk to about a lot of the different things the paperwork asked for me to know. The topping on the cake is that a lot of these applications are pretty easy to get rid of, but because of the paperwork, is taking over three weeks. Also, before I can start any of the paperwork I need approval from a specific owner of the application, which don't reply to my emails or are never at their phone. One particular application, no one seems to know about, and have gone down the path of "this guy might know" for quite a long time. I have dubbed the person, whomever it may be, that knows anything about this application, "The Unicorn", due to it's mythical nature.
The Public transit bus stop outside the Cartier housing.
Had a few nights out, on Wednesdays there is wings night at Paddy McSwiggens. Went there once, decent and very cheap wings. I'm more favourable to baked wings, not the deep-fried ones they serve, since you get juicier skin rather than crunchy skin. Drinks are expensive, since my meal was only nine dollars for 20 wings and no drinks, while other people were in the mid twenties - low thirties and had less less wings but drinks. Note: Honey Garlic wings good, teriyaki wings bad.
Went to one of the local clubs, Whiskeys Ultra Lounge. People had originally wanted to go do a different place, Club NV, but there was a big warning about how that place is a little sketchy, while Whiskeys could be, but wasn't very often and relatively safe. So about 10 of us went down there on one weekend and some danced while some played pool (I think there were 3 tables, maybe 2, didn't hang around that end of the place and count). Had some fun there, but I don't believe the club scene is compatible with me.
Shuttle bus stop for the shuttle at downtown that goes to Syncrude site (41B)bus arrives every hour:15 from 8:15am - 3:15pm
*yes, I know the quote actually goes "quit yer daydreamin', melonhead"
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