This morning, I woke up still feeling full from dinner last night. In fact, it is 4pm and I have not ate a single thing all day mostly because I have been so busy. I’m just now starting to feel hungry. I’m also nearly pain free in my right foot!

I spent the morning cleaning and doing laundry while I tidied up my resume. I had my interview with the “BD2″ project for IBM Extreme Blue. The interview went exceptionally well. BlueDye2 is a project to bring improved autonomic error tracing tools to Linux. They are developing a mechanism to intelligently allocate dynamic tracepoints throughout the Linux kernel, so that developers can trace errors to the problematic function. The project is based out of Austin, Texas.

I did so well in the interview that they extended me an offer. After some consideration, I declined the offer and decided to stick with the “Continuous Availability Manager” project. While it would have been cool to work in Austin, I’m much more interested in hypervisors than I am in Linux kernel hacking. Both projects are pretty awesome, though!

I was supposed to have my third and final project interview, project “Mako”, immediately following the last, but they cancelled on me. It has been rescheduled for tomorrow - and then I’ll have to make a decision on which project to choose. Project “Mako” deals with high end enterprise storage solutions. We’re talking multi-terabyte tiered fiber channel solutions. That’s right. The good stuff. I don’t know much more about the project yet, but I do know it’s located in San Jose. I would *love* to work in San Jose, but the choice will ultimately come down to an offer and the project description.

After my interviews, I jumped into my suit and drove down to the career fair in Thwing. I met up with the Microsoft group and also chatted around with the various other companies. Companies that I didn’t see at the fair that I would have liked to have seen:

• CIA, NSA, or FBI
• IBM
• Google
• Amazon or Ebay
• Reuters, CNN, or any other large media service
• Any upstart with a cool idea and great leadership

Most of the companies there weren’t really what I was looking for - small embedded chip development and local Ohio computer/tech consultants. Though, some of them were pretty interesting. I still checked everyone out.