crazy crazy

Over the past couple of weeks things have been pretty crazy, at the office and on the home front... most of it I mentioned in the last post...

With the move from one project to another at work, I spent part of last week tying up the lose ends on the old project while attempting to ramp up as quickly and smoothly as possible on the new project. Unfortunately, life didn't want to cooperate with that schedule. Aside from some minor issues with getting things all closed off on the old project, my original schedule for ramping up on the new project was being interrupted and "hijacked" on a minute by minute basis... usually when making a switch of this sort, the first thing to do is spend a few days just playing the game. Get acclimated with the game, controls, story, themes, gameplay, overall design, etc., and then file some feedback on the current state. While I had intended on taking that route, I instead had to get started right away on learning where everyone was at working on the project, where the other Design QA Analysts were focusing their time and effort, learning what reporting and feedback had been done to this point, and start coming up with a plan on how to get us from "now" to the end of the project.

With all of that in mind, I had booked off a few days for an extra long weekend... I had actually requested the time off before learning of the project swap... the timing just turned out to be unfortunate...

On top of all of this, I received a very sad phone call from Tia last wednesday... her grandpa in Nova Scotia had passed away. It was really sad because Tia and I had been talking for the past couple of years about going out east sometime next year to be able to see her family... so, this definitely dampened the excitement of that trip, but I really hope we can still make the trip out there because I would really love to meet the other side of Tia's family and finally get a chance to see the beautiful countryside that I keep hearing about and seeing in Tia's photography.

So, after getting a little bit of work done on the new project last Tuesday, I missed the better part of Wednesday, worked some more on Thursday, had Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday off, and returned to work today/yesterday depending on how you look at it. Now, we are essentially 3 days into our first week of a 3 week sprint, and we have a LOT of work to get done before the sprint ends on Dec 5, and even more that needs to get done for Dec 19 when we break for the holidays for a couple weeks.

And that is where I am right now... awake working on documentation and scheduling for the next couple of weeks... while my beautiful girlfriend sleeps down the hall... I really need to get this stuff done so I can go get some rest with her :-)

Needless to say, it should be an interesting few weeks as we head down the homestretch to holiday break.

b

(note I am already posting more regularly here... told ya :-) )