Good morning on a misty day.

The radio said the sunrise was really pretty. I wouldn't know. My bedroom was orange when I decided to sleep another 15 minutes, I know that. It was normal-colored when I got up. *grins* But I got to work on time. I got pictures of N. (Picture-taking is more fun with people who are amused by the process, than with people who are tolerating it because they need a picture. Oh, well.)

I got in to find emails sent at 6:20 last night trying to schedule a conference call at 8:30 this morning. I was not terribly amused by this but, as it was about 8:30 when I read them, I sought out J., who had scheduled the monstrosity, which the other two people were available for, and asked what had been decided. Well, it was supposed to be 8:30 but one of the people who said yes wasn't available. (He works in the Bay Area. Odds he got stuck in traffic, anyone?) So now I guess it's 4 pm and why we even need a conference call for what should be handle-able by email, I dunno. I sent the email in question so we'll see if we can stave off the mad attack of the conference call.

I helped M. with some checkins. I got a new version into a client site that fixes most of their concerns.... And now I need to see if I can figure out the other one. Bah! (But a cheerful bah. I feel productive. I'll probably be exhausted and grouchy, later - I didn't sleep well last night, because I didn't feel well - but right now is good.)

Hmmm. And a day, and a day, and a day.

Finished a design, today. Included pieces of my code, pieces of someone else's. Most of the time on it will be someone else's work, though. Too easy to get assigned to me, lucky me. Actually it has some interesting considerations but it's all a piece; except for the 'gut' work which I may claim for myself (and which is just an hour or two of work, compared to the couple-weeks which is the rest of the changes) it's pretty isolated, not impacting other parts of the system.

Also included design for the input forms, got an estimate back of 40 hours of time to make that change on that person's part. So make that three man-weeks. Whee.

Then I went back and did a design for several utilities (all on the other team's head, really) - very high-level notes. Haven't heard back from my boss on that, so haven't passed it on to other team for estimate.

Getting stuff done. Got some code-merges done, helped the rest of the team sort out some merging issues, etc. In fact, most of today has been merging issues, mainly because today was the day I rebuilt everything. Most of it behaved, but some pieces clearly did not approve of being rebuilt. :)

Now, in about a half hour or so, I am going to html-ize a query to show someone how it's done. They've done all the work, I just have to update and branch the formatting. I hope. Wish me luck, that it doesn't bite me in the backside.

*gets grouchy*

"Here are my estimates. Note that I couldn't estimate 3 due to insufficient information."

"That's great. Please give me estimates on the three you didn't."

Grrrrrrrrr.

How about I put 50 man-years on it? I'm sure that will be enough. If it's not, it won' t be my problem....