This 'n That
Mar. 18th, 2011 01:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deaneBusy, busy at work. Back in October I was asked what new features I'd have ready for the product for its next release. I responded with a list of what I thought I might have, and hedged it with a lot of conditional statements and disclaimers. Marketing removed all of my disclaimers and for some reason I failed to twig to that when they passed their copy by me. The upshot is that we've now promised customers that the product would have stuff which isn't in there yet. So now there's a crash project to get all that stuff completed. The good news is that I now have other people helping with the project where previously I'd had to do it all myself.
So not much time for updating this journal, but I did want to note a few highlights:
- DST has arrived. Yay! I love DST. A whole extra hour of daylight after work in which to do things. Wish we had it all year round. Or, even better, I wish all the 9-to-5 businesses would shift their schedules to 8-to-4, then we could ditch DST and just stay on standard time all the time.
- We had our first double-digit temperature this week when the thermometer briefly hit 10°C on Wednesday. According to the weather forecast we've got even warmer weather coming, starting next Monday.
- I attended my first-ever geocaching event last Saturday. It was a CITO (Cache In, Trash Out) event where cachers get together to remove the trash from what should be pristine wilderness. About 75 local cachers attended and we removed nearly 3 tonnes of garbage from a half kilometer stretch of logging road. One funny/sad moment occurred when a fellow in a pickup truck full of crap pulled up to dump it all in the woods. The glares of dozens of angry cachers sent him on his way, but he probably just picked some other place to dump it. Just to save himself $20. It's enough to make me lose what little faith I have in humanity, though the selfless actions of my fellow cachers helped to restore it a bit.
So not much time for updating this journal, but I did want to note a few highlights:
- DST has arrived. Yay! I love DST. A whole extra hour of daylight after work in which to do things. Wish we had it all year round. Or, even better, I wish all the 9-to-5 businesses would shift their schedules to 8-to-4, then we could ditch DST and just stay on standard time all the time.
- We had our first double-digit temperature this week when the thermometer briefly hit 10°C on Wednesday. According to the weather forecast we've got even warmer weather coming, starting next Monday.
- I attended my first-ever geocaching event last Saturday. It was a CITO (Cache In, Trash Out) event where cachers get together to remove the trash from what should be pristine wilderness. About 75 local cachers attended and we removed nearly 3 tonnes of garbage from a half kilometer stretch of logging road. One funny/sad moment occurred when a fellow in a pickup truck full of crap pulled up to dump it all in the woods. The glares of dozens of angry cachers sent him on his way, but he probably just picked some other place to dump it. Just to save himself $20. It's enough to make me lose what little faith I have in humanity, though the selfless actions of my fellow cachers helped to restore it a bit.
