I'm finally starting to feel like I'm, well, starting in my new job. I missed the first day entirely because of being sick, and then spent the rest of the week still not feeling healthy.
Then last week I spent most of my time trying to come up to speed and trying to get one simple (and very much stand-alone) software component written for a demo that's happening later this week.
Finally, today, I sat down with a couple of other engineers and talked for a while about the requirements for the system that I'm supposed to be writing. By the time we finished the conversation, I had learned that there's enough work for a small team to work on this problem for a year or so. Well, assuming that the technology can even be done -- most of it is entirely new problems that no one has ever tried to address before.
I'm looking forward to it...