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I have the things I need for my trip. I have to pack them, but they're all gathered pretty well. A few are in the dryer, but that's survivable.
The purpose of the trip has changed, but the schedule hasn't. The changed situation does make it more likely that my vacation next Thursday and Friday, immediately following the trip, won't be mucked with, though. And M doesn't have to go, which is good. He just came back from a week and a half of vacation and has mostly managed to destress during it, so it's nice that he doesn't immediately have to go on-site. Of course that means I've left him holding up things at the office, but he's good and I'm headed to one of the most trouble-prone sites right now, which should help. The reality is he has the entire team as potential backup remotely and now we are not leaving R. alone in the office with no backstop which makes me happier. I don't like leaving anyone as the sole in-office contact. Especially me. It sucks.
So I'll be in New Hampshire. I told the project manager she had to find me a store that sold maple sugar candy. It shouldn't be too hard, in that area of the country, and that is one of my addictions that I indulge fairly rarely (largely because I so rarely see it available out here). I can afford to treat myself to a bit and it will make the trip a bit nicer. It is a pretty area at least, but I don't imagine I'll have much more in the way of photography opportunities than last time. A pity.
I was telling C (the project manager) that I ought to download some pictures of Cape Cod and tell N (our trainer) "See what you missed. We all went on Sunday!" See, the original schedule called for N to be present the same time that we will be. The actual live was on Sunday and N was protesting we owed her, because Sunday's her birthday, and also that she was going to abandon us during setup Saturday and drive out to Cape Cod because she wants to visit it.
She's now scheduled to be there tomorrow and Friday, flying home Saturday (unless she extends it deliberately, but I imagine she'd rather spend Sunday with her partner than not).
But it takes a streak of mischief and stubbornness that I'm not feeling to actually, say, do that as opposed to saying, gee think if we did.
I'm going to take C the silly t-shirt I made for her. I meant it to be a go-live shirt but at this stage I think she needs a laugh and honestly it won't be any better or worse then.
I still have a writeup I was looking at when I went on the last trip, to work on on this one (oops, sorry Jill!). I have some code-snippets and a whole help file to review for Ashes. So if I have any downtime where my brain is still functional, I will work on these things.
Of course, there will be no downtime during working hours. If what we're doing runs out on me, I have 4-5 minor updates to make for the site, and several changes I ought to put in, and some other stuff I have to review, and.... Gah.
Fortunately I misremembered, Scott's parents aren't coming until November. Which is good because the house is a disaster. Whee, disaster.
I have my eye on some shelving units for the library. I'm also going to put in some tall ones in the garage eventually. The right side is not usable to park on because of the furnace so I might as well acknowledge that it's doomed to be storage, and set it up better. Right now it's a crap-pile. Unfortunately, we need to clean the garage before I can put the shelves in to organize it.
Fortunately, it's all irrelevant when packing for a trip....
The purpose of the trip has changed, but the schedule hasn't. The changed situation does make it more likely that my vacation next Thursday and Friday, immediately following the trip, won't be mucked with, though. And M doesn't have to go, which is good. He just came back from a week and a half of vacation and has mostly managed to destress during it, so it's nice that he doesn't immediately have to go on-site. Of course that means I've left him holding up things at the office, but he's good and I'm headed to one of the most trouble-prone sites right now, which should help. The reality is he has the entire team as potential backup remotely and now we are not leaving R. alone in the office with no backstop which makes me happier. I don't like leaving anyone as the sole in-office contact. Especially me. It sucks.
So I'll be in New Hampshire. I told the project manager she had to find me a store that sold maple sugar candy. It shouldn't be too hard, in that area of the country, and that is one of my addictions that I indulge fairly rarely (largely because I so rarely see it available out here). I can afford to treat myself to a bit and it will make the trip a bit nicer. It is a pretty area at least, but I don't imagine I'll have much more in the way of photography opportunities than last time. A pity.
I was telling C (the project manager) that I ought to download some pictures of Cape Cod and tell N (our trainer) "See what you missed. We all went on Sunday!" See, the original schedule called for N to be present the same time that we will be. The actual live was on Sunday and N was protesting we owed her, because Sunday's her birthday, and also that she was going to abandon us during setup Saturday and drive out to Cape Cod because she wants to visit it.
She's now scheduled to be there tomorrow and Friday, flying home Saturday (unless she extends it deliberately, but I imagine she'd rather spend Sunday with her partner than not).
But it takes a streak of mischief and stubbornness that I'm not feeling to actually, say, do that as opposed to saying, gee think if we did.
I'm going to take C the silly t-shirt I made for her. I meant it to be a go-live shirt but at this stage I think she needs a laugh and honestly it won't be any better or worse then.
I still have a writeup I was looking at when I went on the last trip, to work on on this one (oops, sorry Jill!). I have some code-snippets and a whole help file to review for Ashes. So if I have any downtime where my brain is still functional, I will work on these things.
Of course, there will be no downtime during working hours. If what we're doing runs out on me, I have 4-5 minor updates to make for the site, and several changes I ought to put in, and some other stuff I have to review, and.... Gah.
Fortunately I misremembered, Scott's parents aren't coming until November. Which is good because the house is a disaster. Whee, disaster.
I have my eye on some shelving units for the library. I'm also going to put in some tall ones in the garage eventually. The right side is not usable to park on because of the furnace so I might as well acknowledge that it's doomed to be storage, and set it up better. Right now it's a crap-pile. Unfortunately, we need to clean the garage before I can put the shelves in to organize it.
Fortunately, it's all irrelevant when packing for a trip....
