Yeah, still alive. 1. Work/Programming Work is doing that end-of-year winding down. In fact I am on vacation from this coming Thursday until next year. So there’s really not much going on. I have one project on my list.. but that won’t really get going until next year. In the meantime I’m a documentation demon. Nothing fills time so fully…
Category: Five Things
Five Things: Mini-Human
1. Work/Programming Busy is good. At the moment I’m working at home 3 days a week. I’ve actually had to start using a computerized task list to track the status on all my projects so I don’t lose track of any of them. I have so many currently in process it was becoming hard to keep track of how each…
Friday Five: Kilroy was here
1. Work/Programming Work is moving along work-like. Meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting. You know with all these meetings it’s amazing any work ever gets done. On a programming-but-not-work-related note, the tablet weaving editor at Webbriefeditor http://www.b-oberholz.de/editor/index.php stopped working. I think I have the programming chops to write a replacement. More to follow. I finally settled on monica.l.stroud@gmail.com as my new email…
Friday Five: Power in the naming of things
1. Work/Programming I’ve finally started the process to get my name updated at work. Before Erik’s birth the HR department told me that if I changed my name in the system before end-of-year there was a chance I could get dropped from the system completely just about the time I went into the hospital to give birth (you know, like…
Five Things: Did you miss me?
Long time no write. Babies keep you busy. Let’s see if I can do a summary. My son, Erik Alexander Stroud, was born at 10am on November 19, 2013 via C-section. He weighed in at 8lbs 14oz and we are over the moon. I was on maternity leave for 3 months and have just started back to work. While on…
Friday Five: All baby.. all the time
1. Work/Programming I’m tying up the last of the loose ends. Today is my last work at home day before maternity leave officially starts. I think I’ve handed off all my projects.. but I also think there’s quite a bit of “things I do under the radar” that there’s really no one else to cover for me. I’m sure the…
Friday Five: The value of panic
1. Work/Programming This week I’ve gained an added appreciation of my PMs. I’m now in a new group.. with a new “things-to-do” list. These last two weeks my main thing to do was to figure out how a new tagging system worked, test it out and then get one of our sites to make updates so they would be loading…
Friday Five: Of Hand-flapping and Nice-To-Haves
1. Work/Programming At this point I have 13 years of industry experience as a Software Engineer. It occurs to me that I have learned some interesting lessons. First, I am a documentation animal. If I have to answer the same question twice I poke the answer into my technical wiki so that I can point people there instead of having…
Five Things: YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!!
1. Work/Programming BART strike this week. It only kind of impacts my commute.. kind of meaning there’s a chance traffic from my direction will get bleed over traffic from the East Bay and be “terribly bad..” It’s enough of a chance that if I don’t have meetings that require my physical presence I’ll happily work at home. I finished the…
Friday Five: Five weeks and counting
1. Work/Programming I “met” the new team today.. as in we had an on-the-phone meeting. One person is in England (but is leaving the company at the end of January), one is in Australia (but is leaving end of um.. December(?) I think) and honestly I’m not exactly sure where the rest of them are. The meeting was interesting. This…