I had another productive day at work today, mostly working on a fairly sophisticated application logging system. I’m pleased with how it is working so far. Dashed for the mail box when I got home today and still no NEW SCIENTIST, much to my dismay. I know that I can read the issue on-line, but it doesn’t give me…
Up at 6:30 AM and into work shortly thereafter. For some reason, I didn’t feel as productive as usual today. Work has seemed relatively quiet all week long, but it just seemed to drag a bit today because I couldn’t get the engines firing on all 8 cylinders. I made dinner again tonight. This time, it was…
The economy is falling apart, but life goes on. I’ve decided not to look at my retirement accounts for at least a year. I figure it will take around that long to make up any losses I’ve taken. I woke up this morning feeling pretty good about finishing up my workshop story yesterday and that…
Yesterday was the last real crunch day at work. Today and Friday will still be busy, but I think I got through my tough part yesterday. I’ve been working steadily all morning, but the pressure feels somewhat off. Two more days left in the fiscal year, and we may actually meet our project goal. Kelly and I worked…
Back to work today and it was a busy day. I worked straight through again, without a break (I packed my lunch and ate while I worked), and I even took my laptop home to do work this evening. To relax this evening, I watched the first two episodes of the new HBO series, True Blood. I’m normally not…
We are on our way to NJ and currently sitting in heavy traffic at 10:20 pm in Philly. Go figure. Another busy work day today. I worked 7 straight hours before I took a breath. But I made progress so I guess that’s good. This evening, I got more work done on the workshop story.…
Have you ever had one of those days where it seems you are running on all 8-cylinders? Where everything moves smoothly and seamlessly, almost effortlessly? Today was not one of those days. It was, in fact, an incredibly busy, fragmented day at work. It was one of those days where I was in two meetings…
The Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, atop which my office building sits, and into which the windows of my office look, seems to have fire alarms blaring several times a week. Sometimes, there are signs up warning that they will be testing the fire alarm system. Other times, it seems to happen randomly. When it…
When I commuted by train, I would get to work early, head into my office, and stay there most of the day. At the very least, I rarely wandered off the floor. Washington (Arlington) is our second largest office (the headquarters being in Santa Monica) and we’ve got over 300 people in this office. Now…
Ever have one of those days where you’ve got so much to do, you end up in an endless-loop just trying to figure out where to start? Today is one of those days. Maybe it’s the rain.
I killed four hours at work this morning trying to figure out why a report was not working on one of our SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) systems. I googled. I read blogs. I signed up for the free trial of Expert-Exchange. Finally, I pushed the report out to the test server and it worked…
Late start today, which I hope to remedy tomorrow. I think part of the problem is that there is no clock in view when I am sleeping, so I just keep sleeping as long as I possibly can. I am much more disciplined when I can see a clock. Busy day at work. I spent…