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lyornMight be the weather, but this week really took it out of me. I'm so glad that it's my day off tomorrow. And that I have two weeks of vacation upcoming.
Work, if watched through the most rose-coloured glasses imaginable, will soon provide me an opportunity to regain some of the skill and focus that being sick and then in HO for 2 years has lost me.
In short, management wants to have something done that the system cannot do. (Something very stupid, but unfortunately necessary for, well, reasons.) So we can either hack our own system and accrue technical debt, or do a complete overhaul to make it more flexible. (System was designed to be rigid to strongly encourage compliance with project guidelines.) We will try for an overhaul, so we will be up over our elbows in decades-old code and decades-old databases. The joy of mechanical engineering, where the machine might outlast the customer that bought it, and still needs software updates.
Today at choir practise I had just run out of fucks to give, which was kind of relaxing. I do not know why everyone was so agitated, I mostly just phased out and sang when required. Our conductor got into some details of pieces that I already know, which, I feel, they should do a lot more often -- and earlier! It still was helpful.
Work, if watched through the most rose-coloured glasses imaginable, will soon provide me an opportunity to regain some of the skill and focus that being sick and then in HO for 2 years has lost me.
In short, management wants to have something done that the system cannot do. (Something very stupid, but unfortunately necessary for, well, reasons.) So we can either hack our own system and accrue technical debt, or do a complete overhaul to make it more flexible. (System was designed to be rigid to strongly encourage compliance with project guidelines.) We will try for an overhaul, so we will be up over our elbows in decades-old code and decades-old databases. The joy of mechanical engineering, where the machine might outlast the customer that bought it, and still needs software updates.
Today at choir practise I had just run out of fucks to give, which was kind of relaxing. I do not know why everyone was so agitated, I mostly just phased out and sang when required. Our conductor got into some details of pieces that I already know, which, I feel, they should do a lot more often -- and earlier! It still was helpful.
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Date: 2023-06-23 07:24 pm (UTC)The overhaul sounds exciting, heh. I hope it goes well!
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Date: 2023-06-26 05:59 pm (UTC)