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Madness and Milestones
Jan - May: Scramble to complete development and test for a small product and start to learn another at the same time.
Jun: My manager tells me I'm now dept team lead for both products plus co-ordinate work on a small open source software project
August: Wrap up the latest release for one product with much scrambling and last minute testing. Bicycle crash at end of month, bike is totaled, insurance buys me a new bike, a couple weeks in pain.
Jun-Dec: Try to pull together development on 2nd product, which runs later and later every week. Much overtime and madness.
Oct: Wife has minor foot surgery which keeps her off her feet till the end of the year, so now I get to take care of her & house on top of crazy project.
Dec: 25th year anniversary for me at work, same day. I was hired the day John Lennon was shot. Finally hand off final copy of software for crazy project. Close to complete the current cycle on the open source project I coordinate. End of December is vacation for a couple weeks. Maybe I can sleep then.
Somebody once made the comment that trying to manage programmers is like trying to herd cats. They were right.
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