Well the killer project is in its final stages though it refuses to go out quietly. Our defect count is high and we’re taking more throrough measures to ensure that goes down. It’s a little disappointing, like I didn’t do my job as well as I could have, mainly by laying down sufficient design early on for newcomers to the team and properly estimating things. Everyone including management is supportive of me and the project and for that I have to be thankful, but I don’t like delivering beneath people’s expectations. Guess that’s always been a little character trait/flaw of mine that I either do something well or don’t do it at all. Still, I’ve changed a lot in the last few months in my outlook on my career and work life, maturing I think. I take my work more seriously and hold myself personally responsible for what’s going on there. As one of the senior tech leads on the application I’m starting to feel ownership and stewardship for the site.

This weekend has been a nice respite from things though including beautiful weather (a bit chilly and windy, but still nice) and good times. We celebrated Chris’ birthday in proper fashion and I did manage to get a number of to dos that have been plaguing me of late with my dearth of free time due to work. The growing list related to house maintenance, wedding planning, and the equivalent list at work has been weighing down hard on me of late. It’s helped me to take a more Zen approach to it all of addressing the problems I can fix, and living with the ones I can’t, and not worrying about those solutions until I can actually do them. Still I manage to swerve between extremes of calm acceptance and near hysteria.
In good news, a project I worked on months ago (that was coded well, was on time, and a great success other than the third party system was crap and couldn’t handle the load we gave them) finally went online this last week. You can now visit AA.com and retrieve reservations that you have made with them online and offline (previously you would just see any reservations you had made or retrieved on AA.com). It’s a small thing but it’s nice to know (or hope) that the work you do every day in the end results in something that someone, somewhere, benefits from.