Another reason I’ve been busy for the past month is we had a release at work.  Things tend to get pretty crazy around release time for software projects.  Friday afternoon before the actual week of the release, they decided that they should have someone at the customer’s site to make sure things go smoothly.  There’s money in the contract for getting the release out on time so they didn’t want to take any chances.  My project has lost a lot of people lately so it pretty much came down to me.  The following Monday morning I was off to California.

It turned out that our software actually pretty much did what it needed to do and all the issues were elsewhere when I actually got there.  That’s better than the alternative where I was running around fighting fires, I suppose but it’s a little frustrating to fly across the country with no notice, to no real end.  I did get to put faces to names of all the people I’ve been emailing with, at least.

In addition to the 3 hour time shift I had to wake up at 5:00 am to catch my flight on Monday.  I fell asleep at 7:00 PST that night.  I didn’t really have much energy to take in sights or do much outside of work while I was out there as a result.  I pretty much just wanted to go to sleep by the time I got to the hotel.  I did eat at some good restaurants though.

I got back to Boston, Saturday morning, just in time for a weekend of torrential down pouring.  It was good to be home, rain and all.