I figured out this weekend that by nature I am a student of leadership. Doesn’t matter who the leader is or what they lead. If there is something I can learn, I naturally study it.
It explains a lot about me. Stuff even I didn’t realize about myself.
Today is the day I rejoin my former employer. Well, for all practical purposes, anyway. I’m contracting there through the end of the year. I’m there with a growing crew of former employees, all working as contractors to bring the company and product back to life. My responsibilities include nearly everything under the sun, but with a focus of support and sales engineering. Should be fun.
There is lots to do, though so much still exists that it will be undoubtedly easier to get things running smoothly again. Its not like starting from scratch.
After working on other things for a while, I finally got around to figuring out how to write custom Asterisk scripts. It turns out I wasn’t reading the environment variables before launching into my perl script. As soon as I added a simple loop to pipe it to /dev/null, the script started talking as it should.
Another half hour or so and I’ll have Asterisk reading me the weather stats from my weather station. Another hour and I’ll have it telling me if an accident is blocking my commute. Now the power of computer telephony integration is mine. Bwahahahahahaha!
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