Simple Gifts
Today was a good day.
I've been incommunicado due to recurring workaholism and a bad attack of deadlines for a while now, but it's done and in (a year's worth of programming!), and looks to have been worth it, so hurrah!
I actually handed in my part last Friday, after an extended run of working nights and weekends (along with the other developers on my team) to get the silly thing to a usable state, but today was the big show-and-tell, where it got used by all the various external stakeholders that provided large parts of the project funding. The project has a history much longer than my involvement with it, that has included some non-delivery of previous versions and other issues, so getting this one right was pretty critical... thankfully it went really well. Nothing crashed, the model results made sense, several people submnitted on-the-spot plans for cool ways to use it and extend it in future versions and one of the most vocal critics of previous attempts has suggested that we commercialise the whole thing!
So the week ended on a high, and now I have a whole three-day weekend ahead. We had one last weekend as well, of course, but my parents were up here for a visit, and while it was lovely to spend time with them, I was also completely exhausted, so it didn't really register as a break. This one, I plan to spend playing with my garden, and possibly with my paintbrushes - I've got a whole stack of half-started C&I projects around here someplace... I love having options!
So,I now have my life, or at least my spare time, back within reach and will hopefully be actually responsive to the rest of the world again. My apologies to everyone who has emailed me - I loved hearing from you, but have been terrible at replying. Expect to hear back shortly.
Hugs to Everyone - may your weekends be awesome.
I've been incommunicado due to recurring workaholism and a bad attack of deadlines for a while now, but it's done and in (a year's worth of programming!), and looks to have been worth it, so hurrah!
I actually handed in my part last Friday, after an extended run of working nights and weekends (along with the other developers on my team) to get the silly thing to a usable state, but today was the big show-and-tell, where it got used by all the various external stakeholders that provided large parts of the project funding. The project has a history much longer than my involvement with it, that has included some non-delivery of previous versions and other issues, so getting this one right was pretty critical... thankfully it went really well. Nothing crashed, the model results made sense, several people submnitted on-the-spot plans for cool ways to use it and extend it in future versions and one of the most vocal critics of previous attempts has suggested that we commercialise the whole thing!
So the week ended on a high, and now I have a whole three-day weekend ahead. We had one last weekend as well, of course, but my parents were up here for a visit, and while it was lovely to spend time with them, I was also completely exhausted, so it didn't really register as a break. This one, I plan to spend playing with my garden, and possibly with my paintbrushes - I've got a whole stack of half-started C&I projects around here someplace... I love having options!
So,I now have my life, or at least my spare time, back within reach and will hopefully be actually responsive to the rest of the world again. My apologies to everyone who has emailed me - I loved hearing from you, but have been terrible at replying. Expect to hear back shortly.
Hugs to Everyone - may your weekends be awesome.