Well task more than project. I thought it was done. Yes one of those little ickydoms. This is much like Buffy trying to figure out how to make the woman asking for the Mummy-Hand happy. If you don’t understand the reference, you are not watching the right TV show on Tuesday nights.
Now I sit waiting to find out if my last fix helped the situation….
Zzzzzzz
In engineering as in many other jobs you are sometimes given a project you really love to work on. It’s the thing you like doing and this unto itself is a good thing ™. However, this project usually is delivered with 2-5 other projects that you hate. Furthermore, these projects are far more important and (of course) need to be finished by last week.
My happiness is that I’ve just finished all but one of the ‘icky’ projects and may now go back to working on my baby. I can’t really talk about it in this open forum….yet. But I’ll reserve bragging rights for later 🙂
All in all, life has been okay. I’m still happy with my cleaning efforts. A friend came by the house and gave me the requisite, “Am I in the right place?” This was sufficient to make me happy. I’m also finally getting a chance to tear into old packed boxes from my first Calif move. I found all my old genealogy stuff and am hoping to get in touch with my local relative before she gets too old.
Things are still a mess with my natural family. At latest count my maternal side of the family is positive that my father died in August, my paternal side is positive that he is doing fine. Personally, I don’t have the energy to even bother with it anymore.
So this was just a quick breather while I prepare to dive into my pet project for the rest of today. Wish me luck I’m on a tight time frame 🙂
-me
Well, this weekend had it’s ups and downs. It’s one of those rebalance the checkbook months. This means that I’m living on about $15 until the end of the month. 9 days. Yes, in my depression; I once again got a bee in my bonnet to make it _all_ right.
The downs were that my cell phone seems to have vanished. It’s not expensive but it’s my primary phone. Basically a massive screwup has me owing PacBell about $1200. Until we can come to terms and figure out who made the mistake…I’m using a different phone at home… As soon as I find it.
Well…Friday, to keep from getting to depressed I started the entire Budget and organizational thing. To quote a recently ex-gf, “You know….” When you budget rather than spend money willy nilly, things look much better.If I don’t spend very much money over the next 3 years; I can have a nice down payment for a really cool house 🙂
Well, I couldn’t leave it there. So I did Laundry on Saturday. Every imaginable piece of clothing I could find. Sunday was worse. I started ripping into the unopened boxes from the move. More clothes. More cleaning! PITTSBURGH STEELERS WIN…
So at this point, The kitchen and Bathroom look like I’ve only recently moved in. Completely clean. The living room still has a way to go; but I cleared away about 40% of the boxes.
Last night was the premier of Tracker. An alien tracker is looking for 220 or so aliens running around on earth. It’s Time Trax meets Starman meets Highlander/Forever Knight. The last two may seem odd. But it makes sense. The series’ exec. Prod. Is Adrian Paul. He’s also the star. He spent most of the first episode enacting the first 40 or so minutes of Starman. at the end of the episode..we see Gerrant Wyn-Davies. I think that’s the spellling…Who knows. He was the star of Forever Knight. Kudos to Paul for pulling GWD in on the project. The Fantasy fans will love seeing these two actors again. And of course praying for the occasional cameo and the Fan Fic should be quite tasty.
So. My plan was to get to bed early and wake up early. go to the gym and work out. At least at 10:30…that was the plan. By 11 Ares the cat was getting rambunctious. By 11:30 he was into the garbage. By midnight I was chasing him around the flat with KittyCalmer.
So at 1:30 I decided…to hell with this. I couldn’t sleep and the cat was ticking me off.
I drove into the office. Finished all the preliminary work for today and went off to the gym at about 6am. I did upper body this morning. Fat Andrei is now hovering around about 200. Well 199 3/4 but who’s counting…Me I guess.
I did all kinds of upper arm stuff today: Abdominal crunches, Tricep extensions, Bicep curls, Incline presses, 10%,, Chest curl and Lat Pull downs. Strained but not too badly. Enough to burn a little, not enough to over extend myself. (Oh, are my arms going to hurt tomorrow.
Well, at this point I’m up to about 52 oz of water downed.
I guess I should note about the Programming thing from Friday. It got put off pending further research 😉 I got to do some cool stuff that I wanted to.
In general. Life is good this morning. I feel jazzed for the week and the Future that I’m planning out 🙂
I have good-coding days and bad-coding days. And all it takes is a touch of distressing code to send me over to the dark side. Granted…an accomplishment always sends me back.
I’d been working on my own little program. For those of you that know my coding this is, “Yet another dev project….’ Though this one has gone exceedingly better than others have.
Meanwhile, at work I’ve been asked to add functionality that I’ve advised against. What developer hasn’t found himself in this little box? Well, I soent a good 2 1/2 hours last night expending lots of clever points. Making something work that just shouldn’t. Today when I presented my findings to the great old ones. The architects….
Unfortunately, I didn’t expend nearly enough clever points and it would seem that some of the work was already done for me and in a manner that is more complete and better handled.
(sigh)
And on days like this I wonder why I haven’t returned to theatre.
Edit: 20061125 – Adding tags and elabouration
Added: 20061125 – I wish I could tell which coding project this was. Over the years there have been many. One of my older ones actually came around again recently (the Life program).
As for the work issue. I believe this was an application I was designing at Symantec. The Application was about 95% UI and 5% code. I think I talk about this later, but in the event that I don’t:
When designing a program, most people stay away. Algorithms scare people. UI on the other hand is different. Everyone thinks they are a UI engineer and will tell you how the program should be written. In this case, I had a PM decide that he knew how the program should work. When I told him it wouldn’t work that way, he went to one of the architects and asked them for code. He then presented me with the code he’d acquired to, “do it his way.” I was insulted. My manager looked like he was ready to deck the PM.
I really did enjoy my time at Symantec. We just suffered from ‘red-haired, bastard, step-son’ syndrome there.
Well, if today is any example; Organization is truly at times my bane.
It’s only taken 2 hours for me to get to my followup posting 😉 But then again I am at work.
I am in two different organizations that are at heart very frighteningly similar. The OTO and the SCA. One is philosophical/religious and the other is historical. Both have a wonderfully pervasive way of trying to take over your soul. Or at least all the time in the world that you have.
And now my manager needs my attention. I have the feeling this is going to wind up being catch as catch can until I can get the time to add more 🙂
Please….feel free to discuss.
