Wow. What appears to be a short time is indeed a very long time. I had no idea it's been as long as it has since my last update until I glanced over at the time stamp from my last entry. It's been well over a month. I love writing and telling the world what's on my mind but I sometimes lose that focus and it becomes difficult to find the time to sit down to do it.
Over the last few weeks at work, things have been very challenging. We've received some very ambitious deadlines which we aren't realistically able to meet. It's been stressing my team out. But there's more to deadlines than not meeting them. The rushed schedule allows for the introduction of design flaws that are glaringly obvious to me when I started doing code reviews. Sadly, nothing is going to be changed because time is not permitting. Testing becomes minimal, at best. I'm testing things when I'm not entirely confident I'm capable of testing them. I don't know the tools or the design, I'm making a lot of assumptions. Worst of all, deadlines are a huge hit on morale. We've had a few instances where we've sat around just complaining about management. That type of attitude is not desirable or conducive to team building.
I have no doubt we'll get through it and we'll finish our requirements. But I'm adamant about not letting this happen to me again. If I have to throw a fit in the middle of a manager's office, I will. I won't let this happen to me or my team again.
Outside of work, not a lot of has happened. I recently bought a Blu-Ray player and I've been looking at movies I could buy. Of course, I have to be a lot pickier about my purchases since they're now $30 each. But that slight revelation has leaked itself onto my DVD collection. I've recently went through my collection and pulled out the movies that I love and could watch again. The rest (31 titles) I'm putting up for sale.
I'm not trying to raise money to buy my collection in hi-def or anything but rather I just realized I didn't need these movies cluttering my life. The things I own should be an expression of myself. If someone pulls out a movie from my collection and throws a weird expression my way, I want to respond "Shut up! Get out of my house! That was an awesome movie." Anything else is just taking up space.
That's about most of what's been happening lately. Oh, I'm getting my butt whooped in the hockey pool. ... Both of them.
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