Switching to a new department means ramping up on new technology and new product line.\u00a0 However, I don’t expect the ramp up would be this steep.\u00a0 Some one in the Santa Clara office is leaving the company in a month and I am assigned to take over his work.\u00a0 This means another brain dump trip to the Bay Area.\u00a0 I will be flying down to Santa Clara for two weeks only after joining the new project team for a week.\u00a0 I only have next week to get myself familiar on whatever the guy is working on, so that I can ask some more intelligent questions when I am down there the week after.\u00a0 I can foresee many hours of intensive reading in the next few days.\u00a0 Actually, I already shoveled the 600 pages SATA standard into my brain in one day.\u00a0 I wonder how many more pages I can take before my brain explode.<\/p>\n
Things gets even more interesting that my cousin is getting marry in 2 weeks.\u00a0 So during my two weeks stays in Santa Clara, I will fly back to Vancouver on Friday night, go to the wedding, then fly back down on Sunday evening.\u00a0 If the weekend is not conflict with the wedding, I would rather stay down there and hang out with my old friends.\u00a0 My boss seems to have no trouble giving me approval to come back for the weekend.\u00a0 I guess it is cheaper to buy me the ticket than paying me for the hotel, car rental and meals for two extra days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"