Error: I'm afraid this is the first I've heard of a "trackback" flavoured Blosxom. Try dropping the "/+trackback" bit from the end of the URL.
Magic Trick
This snow storm was like a magic trick. It snowed and snowed and snowed, but there was never more than an inch on the ground here. It was cold enough that it was usually snow falling rather than rain, but warm enough that it melted almost as fast as it fell.
They are predicting highs of 50s for tomorrow, 60s for the weekend (so market should be comfortable) and 70s for most of next week. There's no guarantee that we won't still have more snow this season (one of the nastiest blizzards I can remember in the Denver area was in late April) but really cold weather is getting less and less likely.
Tomorrow is kind of a good news/bad news joke.
The good news is, the new laptop should be delivered some time tomorrow.
The bad news is that I have a conference call with the VP in charge at my current project, who tends to be a micromanager and a bully. Our sales manager will be sitting in on the call, which is probably prudent. The temptation for me to suggest an obvious solution if they are unhappy with my progress is going to be very strong.
I'm sure they are unhappy with my progress -- I am very unhappy with my progress. I seem to spend more time doing re-work than doing actual tasks, so nothing actually gets finished. I state what I am going to be doing verbally in conference calls, and also in emails, in detail, and get what appears to be buy-in from the the people I am working with. But somehow what I have done is never right, never what they really wanted, and I end up having to re-do things.
I do not feel up for this conference: I need plenty of sleep tonight and plenty of herbs tomorrow so I'll be coherent during the call. Of course, it doesn't need a lot of coherence to say, "OK then, I quit." This is why it is good that our sales manager is sitting in: the company can't really afford to have me on the bench between assignments just now.
But it is not a good sign that I know exactly how many billable hours there are between now and the end of the contract. There are 592 hours left on this contract. By the time of the conference call it will be 588.
I will never work for these people again.
I usually get deliveries late in the day, because I am out away from business centers, but I'd be willing to bet that the laptop will arrive (and need to be signed for) between noon and one during the conference call.
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