Wading in

Know what, folks? Yesterday was a week-and-a-half. I did get the air conditioning fixed—two fuses cost $118—but this is a stop-gap measure, so I’m looking forward to a week of getting estimates for a whole new system, AC and furnace.

At work, we had the kickoff meeting for internal testing—which was supposed to have encompassed a very limited cadre of users who could provide critical feedback on functionality. However, in the six times that Engineering delayed this start, the list has ballooned to more than 50, so we might just as well open it up to the entire company and be done with it.

Also, although I’d given ENG three days last week to provide their inputs to my PowerPoint presentation, and then gave them until 1030 yesterday (two hours before the meeting) the director AKA Foghorn) announced about an hour after that deadline that he needed the link to the deck so he could “review” it. I told him the link was in the email I’d sent last week, and resent as a reminder yesterday. Thirty minutes later, I looked at it to find a bunch of “don’t blame us” crap, along with two completely new slides announcing a “phased” test schedule, which was news to everyone in product management. And even though ten minutes after that I told everyone to stop editing it, he kept on until I finally downloaded the damned thing, rearranged the slides, cleaned them up and ran through a couple of times in the 15 minutes I had before we went live.

At least he kept quiet during the call.

Well, from that point on it kind of swirled, so I’m just going to leave you with some pix I took last week of a wading bird that was visiting the corporate campus behind my house. 

At the mo, I feel rather like I'm as deep in it as he is.