shaver

Today’s work was good. I managed to remove a long-standing architectural limitation in our system, which let me make a lot of special cases and sharp configuration edges go away. It took a little longer than I thought it would, but still no longer than I had estimated to my “esteemed employer”:http://off.net/diary/. There were some bumps in the road — bits of code that were a little more global than they should have been, and one bit of code which was utterly craptacular in its absence — but I think that made the experience all the more satisfying in the end.

I’m not sure I’m going to be able to go on the canoe trip that I had been planning to attend next week. When I originally agreed to it and arranged the time off work, I’d thought I’d be missing Thursday and Friday. Turns out that I’d also be missing much of the preceding Wednesday and all of the following Monday, which moves it from “I can work around that” to “boy, that’s going to have an impact on our release schedule”.

I’m actually pretty sure I’m not going to be able to go, in fact, but I’m trying to think positive. Or is that denial?