Wow. Okay, maybe I am productive.

[kyrielle]

I keep looking at how big a list "what I have to do" is. Well, the list of "what I did today (so far)" is pretty big too.

Done today:

• Rewrote a design document for a relatively easy-to-design (but important) command, forwarded it for evaluation, discussed and finalized it.
• Emailed a policy question off and received (as yet) no response. I promised I'd ask. I didn't promise I'd get an answer.
• Provided someone with a comprehensive list of changes to the system (bug fixes and enhancements) in the past two months.
• Sent the same list out to someone else for inclusion where others could see it.
• Discussed a communications module at a site and assisted with the installation of two updated versions of it over the course of the day.
• Updated said site with a SLEW of new commands, a couple new fields, and lots of new system messages, since I had put in the version of the code that uses all of those.
• Checked and repaired a new and fairly obscure bit of communications code (and swore at the C++ variable promotion - if they're all shorts, why promote them to longs to compare? And why promote BEFORE the bitwise OR, you stupid thing??).
• Assisted my team members with their tasks and, for two of them, assigned and prioritized several new tasks.
• Read and responded to way too much email, most of which needed answers yesterday.
• Reviewed the results of a test load from another team member, forwarded the results for one site, asked for a re-run with parameter changes on another site.
• Largely finished updating a piece of code I've been writing that has not been working. I figured out what the problem was, but it necessitated massive design changes. Now I only need to finish updating one more program to use the new format.
• Made sure we had someone working on confirming that we could get in to the company dial-up before we need to use it.

I'm not done for the day, but I almost am. I'm keeping my list of what "must" be done today down so I can get home. I'll be back in tomorrow, unfortunately. I need to get the lab set up for testing a different site than it was, and I haven't had time today, and I don't want to stay that late tonight. It's needed by Monday, so tomorrow is fine. Plus it needs the code I still have to update one more program for....

Still left to do today if possible:

• Wait and review the resend of data on the site that I requested a change in parameters on. Forward any results from that. (If I miss on this, I can pick it up tomorrow, though.)
• I'd like to finish the code I'm working on.
• Complete my timesheet.

To do tomorrow:

• Anything from the above list not done.
• Set up the lab for that site, including a data-pull from the client site, a full update of the lab with that data and the new code, database sharing as it's a multi-access site, etc.
• While doing the data-pull from the site, update their database layout.
• Attempt to fix two communications bugs, one of which I already know the cause of thanks to a team member - the solution is what's evading us.
• Update this and another site with the newest version of the database applications.

So...a fair amount, but it really is doable. And I am getting stuff done. I look at all I have to do and freak, but what I have to do now is mostly manageable (now that my boss has come in and made sense of the whole mess by prioritizing).

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[kyrielle]

Wish I had more spare time. :)

And I did get the "stuff left" for Friday, done Friday. Except I haven't tested the code, just finished it, so I'm not sure that counts.