After exclusively working from home for the past month and a half, I returned to the office today. I'm finally returning to normal days after "go live" and the initial flurry of problems. I'm glad I did; you can really fall into a routine. I think the longer I'd been away, the harder I'd have found the return ( Read more... )

Today, my company has begun the process of going live on its new ERP system. The old one is being disabled, the new one enabled; a process that begins in earnest overnight, and will proceed through Labor Day weekend ( Read more... )

As you might know (because it's all I freaking talk about), I've been working like crazy for the past year on a big software change at work. The "go live" date was the end of July, so I'd been looking forward to celebrating and settling back down in August ( Read more... )

Although I still have way too much work to do into July, I can finally take a breather after a really intense couple of weeks. I worked a lot of 12-hour days and weekends, and spent most of last week in an Atlanta "war room" development session, but I'm mostly back on track for deadlines ( Read more... )

It's been a while, or feels like it. You know how it is; when you have things worth talking about, you're too busy to post ( Read more... )

I know that most of us are more reliant on technology now, but I had to get a new laptop for work, and heavens is it a pain in the butt. I spent hours on it yesterday (while watching TV at least), and I'm maybe halfway done. The amount of software I use to do my job-- and the complexity of installing and configuring most of it-- is staggering ( Read more... )

I don't know that my social media presence is an accurate depiction of my life. Real life involves a lot more worrying about politics, sociology, and philosophy; but also way more video games, drinking, and watching TV with Jen ( Read more... )

About three weeks ago, my amazing boss resigned. Her last day is next week. Work has been crazy, and I've been dealing by rotating through overuse of caffeine and alcohol at different points in the day over the past week or two. Not bad in the short term but not sustainable. Happily I expect things to settle down soon, and maybe I can post more ( Read more... )

I'm back at work after a wonderful conference. If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you might have seen a couple of pictures.

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I'm going to a work-related conference for the next few days. I'm nervous, and not sure what the culprit is: the plane flight; not being sure how to dress; my discomfort with socializing with strangers; my irrational fear that I'm going to forget to pack something vitally important; or maybe just low-grade agoraphobia ( Read more... )