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November 29th, 2005 byI thought I was going to sleep through the night at first… then I woke up in utter terror at 11:00 PM realizing that I have a meeting, no, THE meeting, in the morning. The one where I have to delicately explain why we’re months overdue with the new database system. So I flew down here and joined Karen the janitor in the basement dregs of the PDS for a long session of cleaning up other people’s messes. Got a ton done too. One of the gratifying things about development jobs is that you can always reuse 30% of the code you write for later projects. It’s a nice geometric progression because the more jobs you do the more pre-written code you get to put into play. This job for example is at least 40% code that I’ve already written. It’s nice. Unfortunately only about 5% of my time on this job is writing code. The other 95% is cleaning up the disaster that my predecessor left behind.
And yes, this job (and others) are exactly the reason why I haven’t been keeping this site very well updated. I have a hell-bent goal of being out of debt by tax season. But believe me baby, this site ain’t the only thing suffering at the expense of getting out of debt. No pun intended. Social life? Recreation? Physical fitness? Mental health? Ha! Who need’s ‘em?