where does the time go?

[joflasher]

Was I really on vacation for three weeks? It didn't feel like it at the time...it went by much too quickly. Hawaii and the south west were both gorgeous, though in vastly different ways. We swam and hiked and laughed and ate trail mix and the boys kept hugging the rocks. I'm about as tan as I can remember ever getting, which isn't very.

Of course, I came home and promptly got smacked by allergies. Every plant in MA is getting it on right now and my nose is left holding the soppy tissue. Normally it isn't this bad but there wasn't any build up this year. One day, desert, the next, pollen city. Its slowly settling down. The thunderstorms are helping to wash all the yellow from the air, at least.

Still, I'm back to work now. The new office is nice, though it took me a good part of yesterday to get my computer to play nice with the network in the new building. I'm now right above Beantown coffee house, which is both good and bad. Good because, hey, coffee. Bad because, um, my body really shouldn't have THAT much coffee. Hmmmmm coffee.

I'm still digging through old emails and I absolutely DREAD trying to do CVS merges today. I leave for Albuquerque on Sunday and get back the following Saturday. This SHOULD be the last trip out there for at least 6 weeks. Janet promised that they were going to bring on someone else for round 2 of this project to giving Josh W. and I some breaks in the travel department. My other project had a design meeting and did an about face while I was gone. All of a sudden my eye candy GUI became an intergral part of the deliverable. I am not happy. I'm not a GUI developer and it shows when you run with the thing. Hell, I'm still trying to get drag & drop to work. Its good to learn new skills, right? On the up side, summer hours start soon and I'm going to take off every Friday afternoon I can.

As the Boy said, the current state of the Jo is that I'm tanned and I swear a lot less. Lets see how long it lasts, shall we?

Comments

[tg2k.livejournal.com]

Do you take anything for your allergies? For the little occasional problem I've had, loratadine has helped. Cheap from Costco.

Also, you use CVS? Sounds painful. My brother-in-law says that his company (FedEx) is or has switched to Borland StarTeam and he seems to think it's an all around great tool (or really a tool suite) for everything from source control to requirements management and defect tracking. I'm going to have to ask him more.

What OS are you doing drag-and-drop in? In Windows I've done it before, and it sounded a lot harder than it actually was. It's a little trickier if you want to handle a lot more interfaces for the drag-and-drop (because the drag source can expose multiple interfaces, both standard and custom, and so the drag sink can potentially decide on a priority scheme for the data) but still not too bad. Dunno under X or anything.

[freeptop.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I've used CVS across four companies now. So far, I haven't had nearly the problems everyone who doesn't use CVS seems to think I should...

[flasher.livejournal.com]

CVS is not the problem. Forgetting to check my stuff in before I left is the problem. Therefore, I must merge instead of just checking out a fresh copy.

[luminifer.livejournal.com]

i've had occasional problems with cvs -- at my last job, they got so bad cvs was abandoned for something else.

most of the problems were with when cvs assumed it got a merge right and didn't really notify you much.

not sure how things are going there now. :)