February 2007 Archives

This past week was pretty uneventful, really. Well, up until Wednesday, at least. Wednesday, we got a pretty good storm that came through the area. The good news is that we didn't get anything near the 20+ inches they were originally predicting on Tuesday. The bad news is that this meant that I didn't get a snow day off from work. So that meant driving on messy roads with snow still falling from the sky. Granted, it was still better than back when I lived in Pennsylvania and drove all the way to Ithaca and back each day for work.

The only down side to the experience was that Wednesday was my day to be split between projects. That meant that when I got up in the morning, I had to clean my car off to drive to the customer's site, only to clean my car off again at lunch time to drive over to my own office and finish out the day there. When I cleaned off my car in the evening night to drive home, I decided that was the last time, stocked up on anything I possibly thought I could need before morning, and locked myself in my house for the night. It was actually quite relieving.

Of course, when I came home, I noticed some kids climbing a snow bank accross the parking lot from my home. They appeared to be having a good time. It gave me quite the smile, and made me think of my nieces and nephews down in Mississippi. Poor Liam is begging for snow, it seems. So I called my sister and jokingly told her she needed to bring the kids up here for some winter play. She laughed and told me in no uncertain terms that I can't even mention the idea to Liam or he'd be all packed.

In other news, I have a coffee date tomorrow. I won't say much about it other than that I'm quite excited about it.

I suppose one more meme/test result post will totally ruin my blog. Thanks to Eileen for making me aware of this one!

The past week or so, I've been focused on work too much to put much thought into blogging. I'm still trying to work out a satisfactory schedule that works with my current work situation.

You see, I'm currently working on two different projects (I'll call them Project A and Project B) at the moment, focusing on each one for twenty hours of my work week. This is not unusual when you work in the contracting/design services industry. This is especially true when your involvement in Project A is winding down and the customer for Project B wants you get as early a start as possible.

Of course, this particular situation is further complicated by the fact that for the time being, Project B requires me to work on the customer's site. So that means that when I'm working on Project B, I'm driving to the customer's office, and when I'm working on Project A, I'm coming to my own company's office. For four days of the week, that's no big deal. During those days, I'm only working on one project, and simply show up at the correct location for the day and stay there until it's time to come home.

However, the fifth day of the week (and which day that actually falls on varies from week to week), I work for hours on one project and four hours on the other. This means that for that day, I go to one site in the morning, drive to the other site halfway through the day, and then return home from the second site when its quitting time. Thank goodness both sites are relatively close to each other! Add to this the fact that I have two weeknights (and some weekends) that I spend doing business for Paths of the Old Ways, and I have a pretty busy schedule.

Oh, did I also mention that while my hours are extremely flexible at my company's office, work on Project B is requiring me to standardize my workday a bit more? Also, getting up earlier than I like has become a necessity. So I've been spending most of my free time trying to get rested up and recovering from the schedule change.

Hopefully, I'll have more time to seek out inspiration. I had a pretty good blogging pace going at the end of January, and I'd like to recover it in the near future.

I don't normally post quizzes and memes, but since I was tagged by Pisco on this one, I'm making an exception.

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

The running commentary going through my head for some of the questions was funny.