A surprisingly good week at work

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.