Two Months!
Phew – it’s been two months since I stopped blogging, and I don’t know where to start.
In the last two months:
- My work has been insane, dealing with a project where the management have never even heard of the Mythical Man Month, have no idea of how to define a project scope, no idea of how to handle change control, and think the solution is to get everyone working weekends.
- My Housemates have been in chaos, just for a change, it’s probably not reasonable to list all the madness here, but it’s been bad. I guess the “why are we selling the house” questions have gotten somewhat easier to answer of late…
- My employer has been taken over / merged with a bigger company – some things seem good, but the initial contracts they tried to get us to sign were full of wildly unreasonable things – thankfully I think we’ve resolved all of this, but it definitely seems we are losing our small company flexibility in exchange for … something … not quite sure what yet
- The Government, needless to say, have also been insane – but at least we’ve been marching in the streets, which makes me feel we’re doing *something*. More on this later
- And we’ve been to a pile of fabulous concerts – The Eeels, The Bangles, Michelle Shocked, and Steve Earle last night – again, scope for more blogging here…
Needless to say, I’m tired, and finding it hard to keep track of which of the stresses is the root cause du jour. Work stresses make me less able to cope with home stresses, and vice versa. But at least this project is nearing it’s end, which will help immesurably.