It’s such a relief to no longer be on-call. I have free time in my evenings and weekends to work on the house, bring the dog out, make progress on school work and some design projects, and even relax if I want.
My new “job” at my company started today, but I still don’t have any info on who I report to or anything like that yet. I think I’ll get that on Wednesday.
Two weeks can’t come soon enough. It’s like the application that we support knows that we’re leaving so it’s helping us go out with a bang. It continues to fail over and over and no one can agree on what the root cause is. Friday’s on-call was just exhausting. I was only the secondary but it was enough wipe me out for the weekend. I feel bad for the primary on-call… he had it much worse.
I’m still not sure where I’ll be in a month and that’s a little scary. But at the moment, getting away from supporting this application and the on-call requirements outweigh that. I can’t wait to have my life back. Thankfully though it looks like I have another project or two that will at least help me pay off some more debt. It’ll help me fill up my portfolio too, so that’ll be awesome.
Meanwhile, I’ve been putting my mixer to a lot of use. I tried to make chocolate chip cookies on Christmas and they came out all wrong. Since then it’s like I have a mission to figure out how to make the perfect cookies.
A lot of things are changing at work. Our contracts are coming up for some of us and we’re getting shifted around to other opportunities. It looks like my time is coming up in a month, and I’m really looking forward to it. I think. I’m hoping that it will all be for the better, though I’m not entirely confident that I’ll enjoy the temporary positions that I’ll need to be placed into until the right one becomes available. At the very least I think that in a month I won’t have to worry about being on-call, and perhaps I can work a normal work week instead of bringing it home with me. That means that I’ll have more time to finish up my classes and perhaps even some of my design projects that I’ve had to put on hold (sorry guys!!) because of all of the projects we’re working on now.
Wish me luck!
P.S. I can’t promise that I’ll be checking MySpace often, but I did finally sign up for both Twitter and Flickr and should be updating them frequently.
Fall is here. The leaves are changing colors - but I’m afraid that it’s been so dry lately that the color will be extremely short-lived.
I’m still working on my Design & Comp class. It’s due soon and I need to finish it up ASAP. I also want to brush up on my basic Photoshop skills because I’m headed to my first ever Photoshop seminar next week. I’m very excited about it - I’m such a dork.
Things have been significantly less stressful at work since I’ve stepped down as Team Lead. Now I can focus on all of my projects and technical work instead of trying to figure out politics.
I’m *SO* glad that DST is done. We’ve been busting our butts working on updating all of the server OS’s, applications, databases, etc., in preparation for DST for… 2 months now? Thank god it’s over. Maybe now I’ll be able to get some sleep or have some form of a life outside of work.
Granted, I didn’t need to work as much as I did. But the UNIX team had it tough because all of their servers’ patches were so out of date that they needed additional resources - and I volunteered to help whenever I could.
Maybe now we can finish the upstairs bedroom walls. We moved in, removed the wallpaper, and then got sucked into work projects and DST remediation for 8+ weeks and haven’t even finished unpacking. At this point we’re thinking of canceling the house warming party and just having a big outdoor bbq party or something in the summer.