I have been super busy at work these last several weeks.  After a long period of development with a defined schedule (I was on loan to the development team – I’m officially part of the “customer team”), I’ve entered that hectic mode where I’ve been preparing demos, testing and tightening up code releases, travelling to the customer site to ensure they feel as warm and fuzzy about our new version as we do, etc.  All of this has meant lots of late nights, phone calls, and general craziness.  I’m hoping that once we get the final code drop to the customers (bug fixes repairing issues discovered in the client’s labs) things will calm down again and I’ll have time to breathe.  As it is, last night I ended up missing the VB meeting b/c I stayed at work until 8pm then had to rush to a local FedEx shipping facility to drop off a demo system that needed to be in the UK overnight.  I was running so late that I had to call the FedEx 800 number, get them to transfer me to the local office, and pretend to be lost so they’d stay on the phone with me and stay open!  It worked and I made it by the skin of my teeth.  Once I was out of there, I was going to head over to the VB group, but they’d pretty much finished up so I just went home to visit my poor, neglected doggies.

Work, work, work.  I’m tired of work – I want time at home so I can study up on some of my .Net stuff.  Different work!  Work with no deadlines feels different from work where people actually expect things from you.  But seriously, it is a statement about us, those of us who work all day then go home to do more work, isn’t it?  Is it a good statement?  I hope so!

— Matt Ranlett