I was late yet again so Wayne drove me to work. I have to stop doing that! I got all set up and started working through my ticket again. We had a team meeting in the morning and after that I asked Mele to help clarify some things about my ticket. She got me moving forward again and I was able to get pretty far. I was trying to get a listing of all channels and their metadata associated with an app. I was getting the data returned but the code I wrote to parse it was just not working and I couldn’t figure it out. Meanwhile I was able to help Amanda figure out her blocking points. Oh well at least I was doing something. I feel like I have such a short time there and I want to accomplish as much as I can.
I stopped for lunch and ate with Ivy, the new office manager. She’s been in Portland for 12 years but says she misses the snow. That’s not something one hears a lot. It was nice having her company for lunch but it was back to work time!
I sat and struggled with my code for pretty much the remainder of the day but finally asked Mele and Jhenna for some help. It was late in the day though so they both gave it a look and said we could come back to it the next day.
Wayne picked me up and we headed to New Seasons to get some things for dinner. We were having bowtie pasta with pesto sauce, sauteed veggies, salad and bread. When I got home the tree was all lit up, the entry way was filled with Christmas lights, a fire was going and the house smelled like the tree. It was SO good to be home! Soon everyone started showing up for dinner. We had the six of us, Taylor, Delaney, Roberto, Frankie, Spencer, John, Alice and Jason.
Andrew sat with me so I could ask him where I might be going wrong with my code. He doesn’t know anything about the library I am working on nor is he a Python programmer but he could figure it out in minutes. Yeah…..I definitely had a love/hate feeling about this! It made everything feel so daunting but he assured me that with practice and time I would also understand things as quickly and clearly. I sure hope so. I’ll have to sit and study what he did because I still don’t understand it. Bleh.
Today I learned a lot about JSON objects.