Category: Work & Career

  • Late start!

    16 Apr 2007 » 1 min read about Work & Career

    I know, I know, I have not updated the blog in a few days and that’s mainly because there has been no time. I was up visiting Norm and Vicky for their church wedding and it was lots of fun and I will post all about it shortly. Please be patient. I was into the…

  • Protected: Practical ramifications of diminishing returns

    06 Apr 2007 » 5 min read about Work & Career

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  • Protected: Outstanding achievement

    05 Apr 2007 » 3 min read about Work & Career

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  • What happened to the morning?

    05 Apr 2007 » 1 min read about Work & Career

    I spent the entire morning designing a report that pulls data from a database and that matches, in formatting and style, a report that takes an army of people to generate. Somehow, I got caught up by my work on it and the time flew by. I listened to no music, made no phone calls,…

  • Protected: Work woes

    03 Apr 2007 » 6 min read about Work & Career

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  • Concentration

    02 Apr 2007 » 1 min read about Work & Career

    I was up at 5:30, once again deciding to do my cardio workout at lunch today. My goal for the day is to concentrate on some coding I have to do on a project that is quickly wrapping up. I’ve been having difficulty concentrating on this particular project, but I am hoping that today I…

  • Spring cleaning

    30 Mar 2007 » 1 min read about Work & Career

    I did some spring cleaning at work today, closing out about 50 issues open under my name in our support tracking system. These are issues that get tracked through our helpdesk for software that my team has developed and it can be incredibly annoying to maintain these and follow up with them (and ironically, I…

  • 6 work hours remaining

    20 Mar 2007 » 1 min read about Work & Career

    I got through the morning, knocking off several tasks, none of which were the ones that I really wanted to get done, but they needed to be done nonetheless. I’ve got some coding to do this afternoon which should cover the next three hours or so. And then I’ve got three hours of work tomorrow…

  • A good meeting

    19 Mar 2007 » 1 min read about Work & Career

    Every once in a while, I’m in a good meeting. I was presenting a demonstration of a prototype project meta-data-tracking application to a group of people today and the presentation went well. We started and finished on time and they liked what they saw. It’s a good experience to have a worthwhile meeting every now…

  • Storm before the calm

    19 Mar 2007 » 1 min read about Work & Career

    Why it is always I get busiest just before I am about to take some time off. I am taking half of this week off to head down to Orlando for Norm and Vicky’s wedding and I am being swamped by requests to get things done before I go. I’m in the office all day…

  • Meeting over! I’m done!

    16 Mar 2007 » 1 min read about Work & Career

    The meeting for which I have been preparing for the last two days is now over and it went pretty well. I demonstrated the updated application prototype and there were even a few oohs! and ahhs! which is always nice. This essentially means that I am done for the day (and the week), but I…

  • Busy work day!

    15 Mar 2007 » 1 min read about Work & Career

    I knew I was going to be busy today before I even entered the building. I have a meeting tomorrow at which a prototype application needs to be demonstrated and the functionality that was promised in the demonstration wasn’t developed yet. My goal for today was to knock most of that off. I set my…