I don’t feel 100% today, so I’m taking a sick day.
I’ll probably do some work later on, and will hopefully clean up some of my apartment and get some laundry done.
Archive for October, 2006
Burnout that is. Argh. Several looooooong work-weeks culminating in the last two weeks of stress, worrying about the appraisal, I already KNEW we’d come through with flying colors has me burned out with work. I’m ready to take a two week vacation or so to recoup, but that is not to be.
I think I’m at the tail end of it, as I feel my brain starting to wind up to being ready to focus again, but this is a terrible time to be behind the ball. Lots to do. Luckily, fate has smiled upon me with clients not being quite ready to meet with me, so that is one less thing to prepare for. Just need to finish my plans for FY 2007 this week and I’m off the races again.
I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can…
In other news, This was a whirlwind weekend por moi. Friday night was spent mostly in relaxation mode. Elizabeth trekked down to my apartment and we watches Spaceballs but fell asleep halfway through.
Saturday was the AIDS Walk, followed by a trip to McDonald’s where the group was quite entertained by an apparently homeless crazy man. He made what I can only imagine was an attempt to buy our breakfast by tearing a blank check out of a book that I assume was stolen and throwing it on our table. I couldn’t convince anyone to try and cash it. Afterwards, I was told I was his “motherfucker” which judging by body language was a term of endearment, but the jury is out.
After the hijinks, it was naptime and time for me to do some laundry and mix a few tracks before heading off to the Capitals game. Met up with the Joey, Rob, Mandy, Andy and John and walked to Union Station to catch the train to Verizon Center.
The “fan fest” was dumb, so we headed inside to pick up will call tickets and get our seats. We didn’t all purchase together, so Elizabeth and I wound up one row from the top, right behind the Carolina goalkeeper, Cam Ward. The seats further cemented my belief that there isn’t a bad seat at Verizon center for hockey games. I like sitting up that hi and watching the plays develop.
Anyway, broken up by the upteen times our Russian rowmates got up to go to the bar and get drinks (fuck you, Verizon Center staff for not preventing people from coming and going during play) we watched the Capitals completely handle the Hurricanes, winning the game 5 - 2 with a hat trick by Alexander Semin and 2 goals by Alexander Ovechkin. It was an awesome game and I’m definitely in full-on hockey fan mode after watching.
After the game, it was back to my place to let Elizabeth get a bit more sleep before we trekked out to WV for Some R’ Bandits, where I was scheduled to play at 0430. After a quick nap, we headed out and I wound up playing for almost 3 hours, which was the longest I’ve ever played out. I had a blast, starting off with some 148BPM+ evil evil psytrance, and working down to some 120-125 BPM downtempo while milk and cereal was eaten.
On the way to Elizabeth’s after teh party, we stopped at Denny’s which was delicious. Spent most of the rest of Sunday sleeping and watching TV. I had yesterday off, so I chilled in Bmore and had lunch with Elizabeth before we took the train to my place to watch Heroes and eat delicious sausages.
Okay enough procrastination from me for today. Back to work.
Oh, in other news I am working on a couple of papers to be published soon, and I’m thinking of starting up a professional blog. I’m taking suggestons on a domain name. It will be a tech/process blog, likely focusing on applying process/standards to small organizations and the best way to make them as lean as possible to allow very agile development and improvement. It may be more on the general tech side of things at times.
A while back I mentioned that I’ve been put in a leadership role for our process improvement efforts at my company.
For the past two weeks we’ve been going through the readiness review and appraisal process (actually less time, but spread out over that two weeks). Today we were presented with our final findings.. We Made It! We’ve now obtained a Maturity Level Rating of 2 for CMMI. We had many strengths in the findings, which is not a common occurence, particularly at the organization-wide level. A company does not usually have many strengths at this stage in the process improvement effort. A strength means that you went above and beyond with the model calls for.
This is a big feather in the cap for my company, and a massive personal accomplishment on my part. There was much patting of backs and congratulatory speechifying.
Here’s hoping for a juicy raise and bonus. I’ve also been promised some additional time off around the holidays, which is excellent. :)
Now, back to work. It really never stops. :P
Some couple in Houston wants the schools there to stop using Farenheit 451 as educational material. Read the article here.
If you’ve read Farenheit 451, I don’t have to tell you why people wanting to ban it is HIGH-larious.
The gem of the article: “It’s just all kinds of filth,” said Alton Verm, adding that he had not read “Fahrenheit 451.”
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