These disappearing posts are starting to get annoying
A post from earlier this week went missing. I'll dig around for it and put it up. In the meantime, here's a completely new post.
Things are progressing with a recent venture. Another large step to take today with quite a few more on the horizon. There's been a delay on my end which has me growing concerned. There was some amount of time pressure before, but the clock is about to start with rigid milestones. If I don't see a progress update by the end of the week, I'll have to make a few concerned phone calls to see what the hold up is. There are about two months of panicking and running around before things will hopefully settle down. Otherwise, I might go insane.
In other news, we have a meeting here next week during which I have a presentation to give. Getting my stuff together has been quite the adventure. The slides had to be submitted for review on Monday; I had completed mine before I left last week. Or so I thought. Several different people provided several different, often contradictory modifications. Some were reasonable while others weren't. The latter include things like forging a report to make our system look better, including a full copy of a database we use rather than a slide-friendly screenshot, and not including a "SAMPLE" banner across a slide that was not a "SAMPLE". The dry run went about as well as could be expected. We have 30 minutes to present so the dry run was targeted at the same time limit; ours took nearly two hours because of all of the additions we were told to throw in and addressing why some of the proposed changes weren't made (to which I tactfully replied "time constraints" rather than "reality"). This will be fun.
Speaking of which, one of the attached buildings to the one I work in does not have A/C that is operational. In response, they've propped open the doors that connect their building to ours. The result of this action is a continuous flow of heat into our area which proves too much for our A/C to combat. It didn't take long for the mugginess to make the workplace very uncomfortable. Every time we'd close their doors, some jackass would open them again. They're doing it again today.
Things are progressing with a recent venture. Another large step to take today with quite a few more on the horizon. There's been a delay on my end which has me growing concerned. There was some amount of time pressure before, but the clock is about to start with rigid milestones. If I don't see a progress update by the end of the week, I'll have to make a few concerned phone calls to see what the hold up is. There are about two months of panicking and running around before things will hopefully settle down. Otherwise, I might go insane.
In other news, we have a meeting here next week during which I have a presentation to give. Getting my stuff together has been quite the adventure. The slides had to be submitted for review on Monday; I had completed mine before I left last week. Or so I thought. Several different people provided several different, often contradictory modifications. Some were reasonable while others weren't. The latter include things like forging a report to make our system look better, including a full copy of a database we use rather than a slide-friendly screenshot, and not including a "SAMPLE" banner across a slide that was not a "SAMPLE". The dry run went about as well as could be expected. We have 30 minutes to present so the dry run was targeted at the same time limit; ours took nearly two hours because of all of the additions we were told to throw in and addressing why some of the proposed changes weren't made (to which I tactfully replied "time constraints" rather than "reality"). This will be fun.
Speaking of which, one of the attached buildings to the one I work in does not have A/C that is operational. In response, they've propped open the doors that connect their building to ours. The result of this action is a continuous flow of heat into our area which proves too much for our A/C to combat. It didn't take long for the mugginess to make the workplace very uncomfortable. Every time we'd close their doors, some jackass would open them again. They're doing it again today.