A surprisingly good week at work

[flexagon]

Well! That was nice. I actually did some coding this week (as opposed to the design work I've been doing nonstop for ages now). Although it was coding of the kind that often seems tedious (updates to the database schemas), after all that design it felt like heaven. I got a 6-day refactoring task done in 5 days, got approximately the performance results out of the change that I'd been hoping for, and only broke the continuous build briefly upon checkin. Yee-haw. The path is so open now for the new functionality we want to add in the next project. Plus, I admit I love the sneaky feeling of working 'under the radar' during the design phase. I called it prototyping, but the truth is that it was real work. Heh heh. :)

I also ordered a unicycle for our team. With four of us going in on an $80 cycle it should be some cheap entertainment. I found a pretty good FAQ that talks about how to learn to ride, and it sounds doable enough. More importantly, I'm happy that I work with a team that would buy a unicycle. I'm coming a bit out of my shell these days -- hopefully not enough to get me in trouble, but I was getting tired of having no personality at work, and I think this is within the bounds of acceptable developer goofiness.

I leave for a 1-week vacation in Belize in 1 week. According to weather reports, it's going to be raining there all week (sigh). But at least it's in the mid-80s.

Comments

[savage-rose.livejournal.com]

Wait, you're leaving for Belize and buying a Unicycle? Huh, did I miss something?

[flexagon]

You're not going crazy, this was the first mention of the unicycle. I didn't think it was the first mention of Belize, but perhaps so... well, let it be known that a large group of people including me, HLM, hiddenbear, jg26 and bluechromis are all going to Belize for a week (along with some more people I don't know as well, friends of blue's mostly, for a total of ~9 people). We're all renting a condo together. There, some people will scuba dive as much as possible (blue, et al) while others will relax as much as possible (me, et al).

I did a group vacation once before (me, HLM and three other couples) and found it a good way to do things. You can be alone, social, whatever. So I'm thinking this will be fun too. :)

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

A lot of Carribean/Central American weather forecasts call for rain every day. Usually it is an hour or less midday, every day. I don't know if that is true for Belize, but in other places I've been its actually fun for it to pour a little each day.

on my way to work

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

On my way to work,
a man called out 'Hold the door',
unicycle dude.

Umm, yeah, what I mean to say is, while going into the T, he asked me to hold the door open, and then he rode through pushing a baby in a jogging stroller and he was on a unicycle. I was waiting to see him go down the stairs on it, but he jumped off and took the elevator.