Heading Home

On the last part of my trip home. As I write this, I am at 30 some thousand about an hour and 30 minutes from home. So far it's beautiful weather and a smooth flight.

I didn't get done what I wanted to on this trip but it was good to see everyone and get somethings finished. I will get the rest of the information I need next week.

Wanted to post this last night, but fell asleep.

Last Night Away

Heading home tomorrow afternoon. I sure hope it doesn't take three days like in January. I will be very happy to see my family again. I have not had a good night's sleep all week and it's really starting to wear me down. Tomorrow I will be in my own bed at last.

We will be having the funeral on Monday. That's going to be a long stressful day. I am still sorry that I was not home to give my wife more support. She knows that I would have been home anytime she called. I still wish I could have been home, but this was unexpected. I will give her as much time to relax as possible.

I was good getting to see the rest of the team this week. I wish we could have had more time for me to get up to speed but with the issues we had this week it just didn't happen. Sounds like I'll be flying by the seat of my pants again.

I do hope my next entry is from home.

A Death in the Family

This morning my wife's step mother passed away. Something like that kind of brings everything into perspective. You realize that time is short; spend the time you have with great care. I don't want to regret things not done or said.

I am still away, nothing is going to be settled until Friday at the earliest. I would have been willing to come home but my wife insisted that I stay. I hope she is doing ok. I will keep in close contact.

One More Day of Fun

I finally had the (miss) fortune off meeting some of the users that we have been dealing with. I don't know how the folks that have had to deal with them can stand it. We are still being forced to be so accommodating with changes (we added new fields today!!!), that I think we are putting the entire project at risk. When are the users going to be held accountable.... NEVER.

It sounds like tomorrow is going to be a long one. The only bright side is that tomorrow is the very last day we will be making updates. Though to be honest I'll believe that when I see it. I am enjoying getting together with the rest of the tech team. Being in the same location does help things move quicker.

I will be really glad to get finished and head home on Friday. I miss my family a lot, and I know that they are missing me. Friday is going to be a short day. I do need to make sure that I get the vacation that I have scheduled. Since I have not had any yet this year. I don't want to hear about schedules or staff issues, I need time off. I hope that I don't have any issues at this late date. We will see.

Travel Day One and Two

09.25.2005

I am sitting in the Chicago airport (Gage L1 to be exact) waiting on my connecting flight to Dallas. Once again I am spending most of the week in Dallas. Last time (January) it took me three days to get home, don't think I have to worry about a snow storm this time. The only good part (other than getting to see the rest of the team) is that it is not to be too hard of a week. Wonder what I will be saying on Friday.

Finally got to the hotel with just a little bit of hassle. Got dinner out and watched a bit of TV. I am going to make an early night of it; who knows what tomorrow will bring.


09.26.2005

It's didn't even take to Friday. A few of our more clueless users over reacted and set us into a "fire drill". Some of the others on the team had to spend a huge portion of their day just calming the project leadership down. All because of some non-issues.

In addition it looks like we will be making even more changes as we head toward Mondays production build. These folks just don't have any idea of how a technical project should be run. The rest of this year is going to be such fun. Can't wait to see what happens tomorrow.