Decompressed
May. 4th, 2011 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deaneTwo weeks ago I finished the high-priority project that had been consuming my life for the preceding six weeks. It was a Wednesday night, at around 20:00, when I finished up the documentation, mailed it off to the Documentation Team, looked around, and realized that that was it. It was done. The frickin' thing was done! And on time, too (albeit with a ton of overtime).
For the next couple of hours I kept getting up from my desk and wandering around the house for a bit before finding myself back in front of the keyboard, staring at my inbox, hands twitching above the keyboard as if there was still stuff to be done. It took most of the next day before my limbic system finally caught up with reality.
Not that I could crawl into bed and sleep for a week. On Saturday I was flying to Toronto to spend a week with my folks in Hamilton. The timing of the trip was less than ideal - despite being a vacation, any kind of travel means additional stress - but it was my mother's 75th birthday and I wanted to be there for it. I had packing to do and I had to get my mom's new (to her) laptop ready. So I couldn't rest yet, although at least the tasks at hand were relatively simple and undemanding.
Through a combination of intent and happenstance I ended up not making any trips into Toronto on this trip, so the only friends I got to visit with were the ones who picked me up at the airport. While it was disappointing that I didn't get to see more of them, it did mean fewer demands on my time which I really appreciated. What I needed most was time to just sit around and vegetate for a while. I got lots of that and actually ended up returning home feeling rested and relaxed rather than like I needed another vacation to recover from the first one.
I was really not looking forward to starting back at work yesterday but it to be almost pleasant. The project had made it safely out the door and into the hands of customers while I was away and no new crises had erupted, or at least not in that part of the product that I was responsible for. I was able to take my time and work my way through the backlog in my mailbox. Yesterday and today was spent mostly doing code reviews. I'll finish that up tomorrow then start in on doing bug triage, which will likely take the rest of the week.
After that I need to sit down and do some honest-to-god planning so that crises like the one that almost ate my stomach in April don't happen again. Or at least are less likely to happen.
For the next couple of hours I kept getting up from my desk and wandering around the house for a bit before finding myself back in front of the keyboard, staring at my inbox, hands twitching above the keyboard as if there was still stuff to be done. It took most of the next day before my limbic system finally caught up with reality.
Not that I could crawl into bed and sleep for a week. On Saturday I was flying to Toronto to spend a week with my folks in Hamilton. The timing of the trip was less than ideal - despite being a vacation, any kind of travel means additional stress - but it was my mother's 75th birthday and I wanted to be there for it. I had packing to do and I had to get my mom's new (to her) laptop ready. So I couldn't rest yet, although at least the tasks at hand were relatively simple and undemanding.
Through a combination of intent and happenstance I ended up not making any trips into Toronto on this trip, so the only friends I got to visit with were the ones who picked me up at the airport. While it was disappointing that I didn't get to see more of them, it did mean fewer demands on my time which I really appreciated. What I needed most was time to just sit around and vegetate for a while. I got lots of that and actually ended up returning home feeling rested and relaxed rather than like I needed another vacation to recover from the first one.
I was really not looking forward to starting back at work yesterday but it to be almost pleasant. The project had made it safely out the door and into the hands of customers while I was away and no new crises had erupted, or at least not in that part of the product that I was responsible for. I was able to take my time and work my way through the backlog in my mailbox. Yesterday and today was spent mostly doing code reviews. I'll finish that up tomorrow then start in on doing bug triage, which will likely take the rest of the week.
After that I need to sit down and do some honest-to-god planning so that crises like the one that almost ate my stomach in April don't happen again. Or at least are less likely to happen.
