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[Dec. 16th, 2004|07:19 pm] |
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This week has been brought to you by the letters O, M, F, and G, (the Lockheed Martin Corporation, and the support of viewers like you). Since last Thursday, I haven't been able to leave work before 7:30pm; today I left at 6pm, but that was only because we knew we'd be in ALL weekend, so we just wanted one day of peace. I haven't been sleeping well either, despite my utter exhaustion, when I lay down, I can't fall asleep. I simply lay there, incapable of either drifting off to sleep, or mustering enough energy to get up and DO something, anything. And every morning I still wake up exhausted. I've been meaning to clean out my fridge, cooking and eating what perishables I have, but some nights, even eating is too much effort, much less cooking. 31/2 days until I fly to Louisiana to visit my family. This weekend, the highs are predicted to be in the single digits, and next week, the forecast is snow for pretty much the entire week. I get to miss the white Christmas. And you have no idea how much I appreciate that. =) I'm going to have to leave my carry-on bag half empty so I can shed coats, jackets, and other layers in the airport before arriving in Louisiana.
I need a "work bitching" icon.
When it rains, it pours. Three different groups all required my assistance this week on high-importance, high-visibility tasks. Ugh. I've been down in the lab attempting to diagnose a major problem, a showstopper of a failure. Basically, our hardware appears to be completely fuxx0rd, and connecting diagnostic equipment changes the nature of the failure. The process of observation changes the object observed. And we have a demo next week; initially it was going to just be a stepping stone for internal project diagnosis and evaluation, but now it has become a high visibility demo, with the president of the division very interested in our results. So myself and a few other members of the team will be here all weekend long, until this problem is solved. "One step forward, two steps back" would be progress; so far we seem to have "four steps in a circle, trip and fall down and break your ankle." Every day we seem to discover more constants that are actually variables and more bizarre, unexplainable behavior that often seems irreconciliable with prior results, without invoking totally far-fetched, catastrophic theories. Software and hardware both have problems, and doom often seems inevitable.
Obladi, oblada, life goes on, bra. La la, how the life goes on.
The Firefox 1.0 ad appeared in the New York Times today, as a two page spread, with my name among the other 10,000 listed. w00t. |
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