Work

I'm starting to take after Maynard G. Krebbs... Weeeeeerrrrrrrrkkkkk!!!!! Or at least I'm starting to agree with him.

I'm getting part-time programming, part-time database, and part-time testing support on this one project. One I am only supposed to be half-time on as well. The testing person gets called away to work on something more important -- fair enough, it's more important, and I agree that it is more important. So come Friday we don't have the thing fully tested, but she says she expects it to work OK because she believes she's hit those parts of the application in her other testing. Again, fair enough. She's part time, so she heads out. She's been expressly forbidden from putting in more hours.

So I go in Friday afternoon to tell the boss that testing is almost complete, and should be complete Monday. He says that we're doing a demo on Monday afternoon (first time I had heard of this), and to plan accordingly.

Plan accordingly?

So I did. I hoped it would work. That was my plan.

In the whole despair vs. apathy battle, apathy is winning.

As it turns out the demo didn't happen after all. Oh well. The rest of the testing turned out OK too. Fine.

It's a project with real promise, too. I can't get into detail, but this can fill a real need out there. The good news is that I may be able to get off it in a couple months and let others have this fun.