Ugh! I’ve got to break this cycle soon. It’s too much what it was like when I lived in L.A. and worked nonstop from morning until night. I haven’t been going to the gym and that’s got to stop to. Especially since I’ve been trading gym time for work time. Today was like every other…
My brain is chock full of object classes, inheritance, polymorphism, data collections, assertions, loop invariants, capital-I interfaces, generics, sessions, caching and hashing and no more will fit. I’ve literally filled up that portion of my brain that thinks in programming terms. Nothing new will go in. And I’m not really sure what to do, so…
I came into work this morning ready to hit the ground running. After all, I got a good night’s sleep last night. I took care of some issues that needed to be done right away, and then I turned to work on the AJAX-based ASP.NET application I’m developing. When I opened it up in Visual…
I officially switched to my new MacBook Pro at work. I hadn’t planned to make the switch this morning, but I was having problems with my PC and after spending more than an hour trying to get things working, I said screw it and I switched. I now have 2 monitor setup: On the MacBook…
I decided to work from home today. I have two projects that are coming up on significant milestones. I spent several hours yesterday morning working on one of them and it was nice to be able to get work done without the usual interruptions. I’d really like to wrap up my work on this particular…
The plan was simple enough: spend the day on the visitor center project. I had both .NET and SQL code to write on this project and I looked forward to using today to push things forward substantially. I didn’t even get the project open before things were derailed. I got sidetracked providing detailed (and rather…
We put on our haunted house at work this afternoon and it turned out really, really well. There were 3 “tour guides” that would lead groups of 5 through the house. In my role as a lurker (dressed all in black and with a scary Halloween mask–pictures to come), I would pick a person in…
The first four hours of the day today were once again extremely productive. Here is an excerpt from my work logbook on what I managed to get done between 6:30 AM and 10:22 AM: OPT: Documented project delete functionality in wiki (~0.3 hrs) CSC 1.5: Updated project wiki site (~0.5 hrs) RoomTracker Support: Fixed an…
I went into a coma today at work and didn’t come out of it until nearly 3 PM. I got into the office at 6:30 AM and decided that today I’d try and plow through a work breakdown structure* (WBS) for the development phase of a software project on which I am technical lead. I…
Today wasn’t the most productive of days at work, but that happens from time-to-time. Rita was in town still, and Todd, Karl and I had lunch with her at Chevy’s. It was John’s last day today and there was a goodbye party for him, along with some ping pong, which was amusing. (Really good chocolate…
I’m so glad it’s Friday. This has been a long week. I’ve put in some extra time at work this week and I’m ready for the weekend. Also, we may even get some rain today. It has been unseasonably warm here the last couple of days and a little rain would be a pleasant change.…