ARLINGTON, VA. This is just in: having successfully rolled out the big software system I’ve been working on for the last 441 days, I have the weekend off. These are my first days off in a month. I worked 126 hours in the last 2 weeks alone. I am tired, worn out, elated, relieved, and…
25 years ago today, I started my first job out of college. I’d graduated about three months earlier, and spent the summer after my graduation continuing to work in the dorm cafeteria office, where I did some computer work. Meanwhile, I looked for full-time job. I graduated with a degree in political science and journalism,…
Two and a half months after moving into the new house, my new office is now completely setup the way I want it. Yesterday I completed the task of organizing the books on the shelves, as I mentioned. I opted to keep the same sort order I originally used, alphabetical by author and then chronological…
All of the slides I need to create for the training presentations are done. The total count of presentation slides for the 3-day training session now stands at 501! I have also now gotten so good with PowerPoint that I could probably produce a full-length feature film with it. Still have lots to do. Next up is…
I’m hoping to have the last of the training slides done by 9 pm, at which time I’ll take a break for an hour or so. But I’m coming up on twelve hours for my day so far. If all goes well overnight, twelve hours from now most of the work will be done and…
Still going. I’m more than 2/3rds of the way done with Day 3 slides and I expect to be complete done with the slides by 7 pm. I left the office at about 1:30 and took a 2 hour break. Sarah came over and Kelly and I went with her and her dog, Oliver, up to the dog…
I took at short break at 11 am after wrapping up the Day 2 slide deck (209 slides!) finally! I headed over to the Apple store because after nearly 2 years, I’ve been having some problems with my iPhone (which I never bought Apple Care for). Turns out the problems were caused by a small crack in glass…
Up at 7:50 AM even though my clock said 6:50 AM (I forgot to move it forward last night). Slept pretty well in preparation for what I expect will be a very long work day today (even though it’s Sunday). I figure I’ll post updates throughout the day and night. Getting back to the slide desks now, which are…
After 10 consecutive days of cooking dinner, I didn’t cook tonight. I didn’t even eat tonight. I screwed up. I had a teriyaki stir fry on the menu, which requires chicken, and we don’t have anymore chicken! Kelly got away with leftovers, but I just skipped dinner. I was busy working on a CSS style sheet for a new…
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We slept in late this morning. Actually, we got up for a while and then went back to bed. I’d been working hard all week and I had to work more today but I needed some rest. We finally got up and showered sometime around 11 AM. Around noon I started to work. Kelly headed off…
My 9 hour workday seemed to pass by in 15 minutes or so. I continued my work on the PowerPoint slide deck for the training session I’m leading in mid-March. I started as soon as I got into the office, worked on it nonstop until lunchtime. I paused at lunch to eat, read more of Steal Across…