Sleepy. I just got home about a half-hour ago (though that’s more the result of having dinner and playing Cranium at Ammy’s before driving back up to Berkeley.

Note to self: Driving 75 minutes to work going on 3 hours sleep for your first day orientation isn’t the best way to start things off. On the upside, I got there 40 minutes early, so leaving home at 6:30am was probably a good move.

Tomorrow I’m taking Amtrak to work to see how that goes, now that it’s not critical that I get there by 8:30 for Orientation.

Every Yahoo employee has a company and benefits orientation on the first Monday of their employ (or Tuesday if Tuesday is the first day of the work week). This week there were two new Yahoo! employees, me and Jee Park. Jee and I basically were hired for the same job, and she actually got in touch with me back in March when we were both interviewing, as her friend read about my interview on the blog, and told her. It was just a funny coincidence that we both had orientation on the same day, as she doesn’t start for a few more weeks, (Stanford and its quarter system donchaknow).

I felt a little bad when they asked us to put our names in the hat and they raffled off a Yahoo!opoly board game. Names in hat: Two. Winner: Kevin.

The campus is great. Benefits are great, and the stock even took a graceful 10% dip today, just in time for my options strike price. Now it just needs to start climbing again. I just know it will.

Anyhow, I’ll have more to write soon, specifically when I don’t need to get to sleep and try to hold my own in the battle against Morpheus with a scant 6-hour tithe to appease it until I sleep once more.

In other news, the iPad story was mentioned on Macintouch today. It got about 1600 visitors to the site, several of whom stuck around to see what else was here. Fun stuff!

Oh, and I’ve already got a few blog entries planned for tomorrow. If I get started early enough I may be able to write one or both before I leave for the train tomorrow.