Lunch with Keith and Eric
Tuesday, May 29th, 2002
Yokohama
Redwood City, CA
  
All Photos © 2001 Ting Vogel
 
 

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Eric was going to leave the Tumbleweed Redwood City office to work in the Japan office, so I wanted to have lunch with him before he took off. Keith came along too. Both Eric and Keith have UNIX systems administration skills, so they sometimes back my group up when we are short-handed in that skillset (usually when I am on vacation). Eric was going to work in Japan, so he could keep working at Tumbleweed without having to deal with some of the conflicts in the corporate office. It was a smart move given how much he had invested in the company. To our surprise, Keith told us that he was also giving notice to leave. He did not have a job lined up yet, but I guess he really needed a break. Keith is in Professional Services, so his stress level is much higher than ours in IT as he had to deal with customers (who are always right even when they are wrong). I sympathize with him! While IT is not exactly stress-free, at least all our "customers" are internal and (most of the time) more reasonable. Of course, with both Keith and Eric leaving, that means we would have to make do when we are short-handed in UNIX -- I guess Jones will have to hire a consultant whenever I go on vacation! Maybe he will appreciate me more!! :-)

On the way out of the restaurant, I stopped to take pictures of some of the pretty flowers lining the sidewalk. Ah! Spring in California! :-)