I've written about the college weekend away previously and that's what is happening this weekend. I'm sitting in a living room in Cresco, IA, typing on a very sweet Toshiba laptop. The idea to get a laptop for Christmas has been floated and, if it was as cool as this one, it might be something I would be interested in.
Last night, the men sat in the basement and we watched "The Hangover" while the women stayed upstairs. It was a good night. We all cashed in @ 2 AM.
The drive up was good. I think it's good to spend quality time with Karen, talking. It sometimes seems like we don't have all that much time during a regular week to do so. I miss sharing that quality time with her and discussing things that are happening. Like, last night, we fleshed out more of the kids' schedule for Spring Break. They are going to spend at least part of it in Balltown. I think we will go up the weekend before and leave them there on Sunday when we come back to work. Both of us have to work all week.
Project A is a huge change that has to do with how our clients process something. We have to be certified by someone and then, after we deliver the software to our clients, the clients need to be audited and certified. The way this has to work is that it has to arrive on 3/12 (that Friday). Selfishly, that week (3/15) is going to be a very busy week at work. The timeline for testing and documenting the changes to the system have a two week window. There are consultants involved so it will be very important that everyone stays on-time.
Project B means a lot of work for me. It involves buckling down and writing some content that I have been procrastinating. It is not that the content is difficult to write - I think I could bang it out in a day - it's that I think it's overview material, about something stupid that no one is going to read. It's content that should be covered in a training class but since we don't really do training classes like we used to - clients seem to magically end up with a new system on their PCs - I understand I need to write the content. There is also a lot of project B that I need to write in other areas, besides the aforementioned overview. I am comfortable with where I am, but there are holes I need to fill in.
Project C involves doing the user interface work I do and making records that display in pink display, well, in pink. If you imagine a floor with a carpet. The programmers code the floor and I design the carpet that everyone sees. I don't know if that really makes sense or not. I had to submit a call report to the software vendor that makes the "carpet" because the obvious ways to make the records display in pink did not work.
Project D is also a user interface project. When you are in Add mode, F16 should never be enabled. However, if I set it up where F16 is disabled in Add mode, it is disabled in Change mode as well. I tried all the obvious, and not so obvious, things I know how to do but it didn't seem to work. I asked for a call from the vendor and I need to get that resolved.
Project E is a huge change to one of our systems. Not only are there going to be UI changes - the carpet - but there will also be a lot of documentation changes. I've come to the conclusion that while it is not scheduled for release until the April/May timeframe, I cannot delay working on it until then. This area of the system continually has smaller changes but this is a larger one. I am hoping my co-worker is available to take some of the documentation work off my plate. However, I know that she is busy too so that's kind of an on-going storyline.
So that's five projects that would normally weigh anybody down. It is common to be 'under' that much at work and have multiple priority #1 projects. I don't know, really, how much I will keep up with this blog as the weeks go on. Life at home is equally busy with religious ed, drum lessons, tutor, basketball game, and, of course, homework.
I did take my grandma's cactus to work this week. It was looking sickly in the den at home and I think it was because of not getting a lot of light. So I'm hoping between the artificial light in the building and some TLC, I can bring it back to health.
I think I don't have much more to say.
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