This is gonna be a great day. < /sarcasm>
So I should have known from the minute I got up today that things were gonna suck.
First off: My alarm didn't go off, so I ended up sleeping in a half-hour too long. Not a big deal, I thought, because I was gonna work from home today. Without the hour-long trip to and from work, that left me an extra two hours to play with, so a half-hour of extra sleep wouldn't kill me. I actually felt nicely refreshed. I turned my computer on (eating breakfast while I waited for it to start up), and then sent an email to my team lead to tell her that I was working from home today.
My "New Mail" indicator popped up so I checked it. Meeting invite. I checked the date. Today. So I guess that kills my work-from-home plans. I quickly send off another email to my team lead to say that actually, I will be in the office today, and hopped in the shower. I was starting to feel a little grumbly because I was really looking forward to working from home, and now my day was going to be very compressed. From now on, I'll have to announce my work-from-home plans the day before. Oh well.
So I showered, got my stuff together, walked down to the SkyTrain station and the train got through about two stops. Then it stayed there, doors open, waiting. The speaker crackled to life, announcing that a train somewhere else on the loop was having problems and that there would be slight delays. How slight did the delay turn out to be? Try around 15 or 20 minutes. When I was already 30 minutes behind schedule. When I thought I was gonna be at home for the day.
So how is this day going to go from here? Oh I don't know. Maybe my boat will flip over at today's outrigger practice, I'll get hypothermia from the icy water, and slip under the waves to my icy doom. Or maybe that's too peaceful a way to go. It'll probably involve a rabid dog, a truck full of rotten meat, and a tree chipper. At least it would be memorable.
Did I mention I'm running about 2.5 weeks late? Yeah, we're using really sucky technology at work, and while I won't name any names (Java Server Faces), I'll just say that it is the shittiest, most half-baked, most not-ready-for-prime-time-even-though-it's-been-around-for-3-years technology framework in existence. Well, aside from WebSphere Commerce, which I worked on in my last project, but that's just in a whole other league.
I had to add a feature to one of my pages that should have taken about an hour to do, maybe 2 hours at the outside. I worked on it all day Friday. I worked on it all day Monday. Still working on it all day Tuesday. And now, while everything is working, there's one more addition I'm supposed to be adding to it that will likely take at least all day. I was supposed to have started the next big chunk of work and have it finished by, oh, today, but I've only managed to get about a half-day of effort into it. I'm way behind. And judging by how badly my first chunk of work is going, this next chunk will take even longer. Great. Oh yeah, and this new technology is supposed to make my life easier. Hah!
My team lead knows of my issues, and she recognizes that the technology is the problem, not me. But it still frustrates me. Partly because our deadline is looming just a month-and-a-half away, and we've barely gotten started. But whatever. I've pointed out what the problems are, I've given some possible solutions to those problems, and those in charge have decided to keep chugging along. So I've done my due diligence, and whatever happens, happens.
And on yet another note, I need to get laid. I really fucking need to get laid. The last few opportunities I had all kinda fell apart for one reason or another, and now I just fucking need it. But I won't have an opportunity to get it for at least another few days. And it's making me grumpy. And my home-jobs just aren't doing the trick. And I'm stuck here at work with a bunch of ugly people, working with unsexy technology I don't like.
Fuck.
First off: My alarm didn't go off, so I ended up sleeping in a half-hour too long. Not a big deal, I thought, because I was gonna work from home today. Without the hour-long trip to and from work, that left me an extra two hours to play with, so a half-hour of extra sleep wouldn't kill me. I actually felt nicely refreshed. I turned my computer on (eating breakfast while I waited for it to start up), and then sent an email to my team lead to tell her that I was working from home today.
My "New Mail" indicator popped up so I checked it. Meeting invite. I checked the date. Today. So I guess that kills my work-from-home plans. I quickly send off another email to my team lead to say that actually, I will be in the office today, and hopped in the shower. I was starting to feel a little grumbly because I was really looking forward to working from home, and now my day was going to be very compressed. From now on, I'll have to announce my work-from-home plans the day before. Oh well.
So I showered, got my stuff together, walked down to the SkyTrain station and the train got through about two stops. Then it stayed there, doors open, waiting. The speaker crackled to life, announcing that a train somewhere else on the loop was having problems and that there would be slight delays. How slight did the delay turn out to be? Try around 15 or 20 minutes. When I was already 30 minutes behind schedule. When I thought I was gonna be at home for the day.
So how is this day going to go from here? Oh I don't know. Maybe my boat will flip over at today's outrigger practice, I'll get hypothermia from the icy water, and slip under the waves to my icy doom. Or maybe that's too peaceful a way to go. It'll probably involve a rabid dog, a truck full of rotten meat, and a tree chipper. At least it would be memorable.
Did I mention I'm running about 2.5 weeks late? Yeah, we're using really sucky technology at work, and while I won't name any names (Java Server Faces), I'll just say that it is the shittiest, most half-baked, most not-ready-for-prime-time-even-though-it's-been-around-for-3-years technology framework in existence. Well, aside from WebSphere Commerce, which I worked on in my last project, but that's just in a whole other league.
I had to add a feature to one of my pages that should have taken about an hour to do, maybe 2 hours at the outside. I worked on it all day Friday. I worked on it all day Monday. Still working on it all day Tuesday. And now, while everything is working, there's one more addition I'm supposed to be adding to it that will likely take at least all day. I was supposed to have started the next big chunk of work and have it finished by, oh, today, but I've only managed to get about a half-day of effort into it. I'm way behind. And judging by how badly my first chunk of work is going, this next chunk will take even longer. Great. Oh yeah, and this new technology is supposed to make my life easier. Hah!
My team lead knows of my issues, and she recognizes that the technology is the problem, not me. But it still frustrates me. Partly because our deadline is looming just a month-and-a-half away, and we've barely gotten started. But whatever. I've pointed out what the problems are, I've given some possible solutions to those problems, and those in charge have decided to keep chugging along. So I've done my due diligence, and whatever happens, happens.
And on yet another note, I need to get laid. I really fucking need to get laid. The last few opportunities I had all kinda fell apart for one reason or another, and now I just fucking need it. But I won't have an opportunity to get it for at least another few days. And it's making me grumpy. And my home-jobs just aren't doing the trick. And I'm stuck here at work with a bunch of ugly people, working with unsexy technology I don't like.
Fuck.