Work’s slow this week, but I’m still there, because I’m not about burning bridges, I’m about building them. No, really, it turns out it’s a design pattern. Who knew? The sad part is that nobody’s around this week to listen to my bridge jokes, and now that I’ve found a Japanese page explaining them, quite possibly with Engrish in the code (“Imprementor?”), well, it’s a sad start to the new year.
You know you’re happy to be back at work when you start to think about the weekly status meetings that review everything you and your team have done since the last meeting. Even better (better still?), the meetings are no longer scheduled, and they just happen whenever it’s geographically convenient. You know you’re in super fun land when conversations like this happen at the end of the session:
“Ok, anything new for the list?”
“Well, no, I’ve only been back for 3 days.”
“Don’t tell me you were here before New Year’s?”
“Uh, yeah… Did you think I just got back from vacation today?”
“Yeah!”
“So, since you talked to me about this stuff just before I left, you thought you were getting a status report of the last five hours???”
“Well, you did have new stuff for the report!”
This is the same person who spent three days compiling a group vacation schedule. She might actually know who Herman Thrust is, so I’ll just say, yeah, that’s what I’m saying.
Album of the moment (which needs to be flipped, how the hell could music revolutionize the world if people had to get off the couch every 30 minu–ah.): The Get Up Kids On a Wire