After I finish testing $COMPONENT...

And barring any more scope creep (even though they do dull the pain by pairing it with deadline extensions)...

$PROJECT_OF_DOOM will actually be over.

Now to plan that vacation.

If I manage to get through today without killing anyone, I'm going to reward myself with karaoke. Even though it's what I do every Thursday ( Read more... )

I started my Monday in both the best and worst possible way.
Before I got to work, everything definitely fell into the "best possible way" category ( Read more... )

So, on Saturday, I received a little revelation at work ( Read more... )

I worked until 'bout quarter 'til ten, yesterday. It really wouldn't have been bad at all if the trip home, which is usually about 30 minutes, hadn't suffered complications and become the 65 minutes of dooooooom ( Read more... )

In the middle of a very impromptu meeting called by my boss, as I was taking my glasses off, a screw popped off of my glasses, and the right lens popped out. I can't find the screw, so I can't wear the glasses, since the screw held the lens in, and both lenses are magnifiers. This development, along with the nice weather and the fact that $ ( Read more... )

There are a hundred little things I've set up over the last several years to make work easier. When someone makes large alterations to the computer, I get to reconstruct a whole lot of them from scratch ( Read more... )

... Your email program throws up an error dialog saying it can't connect to a server while you're at work, which for some odd reason means that all the other servers you have accounts with don't get checked, because the program is waiting for you to hit "OK"? So, the program utterly fails to retrieve your email, meaning that .emlx files don't get ( Read more... )

Having just discovered a place in the code where two word separation schemes are thusly mingled:

void name_of_class::name_of_func_one(int param_name);
void name_of_class::NameOfFuncTwo(int ParamName);

I am pondering how far the justifiable homicide defense can be stretched.

Hmmmm... which of my tasks today has been most enjoyable ( Read more... )