The week as we knew it really got started last Wednesday. I was running dance practice, since Mara was off at KWDS. This was fun as always -- of all jobs I've done in the SCA, playing dancemaster is probably the one I most consistently enjoy. Must remember that.
What really made the day interesting, though, was that it was our 2.2 release at work. Midafternoon, everyone agreed that this was the best-prepared we had ever been for a release, and there were no obvious danger signs. Which, of course, should have been a danger sign unto itself.
To be fair, I was one of the lucky ones. Having done dance practice, I didn't do more than check whether any email had come in for me afterwards. Which meant that I got to sleep until 5am, when they finally called me in. The *un*lucky ones had been there since the shutdown at 9:30pm, and were by now frazzled and frantic.
Fortunately for my ego, the critical bug turned out to have nothing to do with my code. After a bit of poking around, I puzzled out that one of the migration scripts (that translated the data from 2.1 to 2.2 format) had an error in it; we called our DB designer, who dialed in and fixed it nice and quick. (He got hit the hardest, really. He'd been there until 3am, so he'd gotten just a couple of hours of sleep before we had to wake him up again. And that evening he had to get on a plane to fly 21 hours so that he can spend a month in the Turkish Army. No, really.) We got the systems all booted around 7:50am, just in time for the morning rush.
Needless to say, the rest of the week was *very* quiet, as the folks who'd been here for a solid 24 hours slept it off. The company's timing proved to be exquisite -- they'd planned a 4-day weekend for the 4th, which was much-appreciated by the staff.
The weekend had a fairly consistent rhythm to it. Wake up a bit late, accomplish some mildly useful house stuff in the afternoon, then off to a party. Enumerating said parties:
On Saturday we went over to
We wandered out of the party early -- it was
The main focus on Sunday was
Prior to the picnic, I wound up on a game hunt.
So we spent a while during the picnic playing that, in combination with Say What?, which
All in all, a lovely evening out with friends. I had some quibbles with the concert itself, but that was more than compensated for by the stunningly perfect weather, and the tasty food everyone brought.
On Monday, we went over to
(On Tuesday, I did not budge from here. Mostly, I spent the day in pleasant but pointless debate about The Fourth Peerage Thing, on a couple of different forums where it has brewed up again.)
Wednesday was back to work. We had the kickoff meeting for our next big project, a relatively focused effort over the next few months. I'm hoping that the need to produce something relatively quickly is good for the company -- we simply can't waste time as we have too often done. I've wound up in a semi-lead position for this one, because I was interested and have been studying the problem for a while. Should be interesting, but it does mean that my attention is going to be badly divided come September. So between that and desperately needing to nurse my burnout, I've started the process of trying to hand off the Borough Liaison role. More on that anon.
After work, it was over to
Coming Up: Book giveaway at Carolingian Champions! At the start of the weekend, we filled
And Monday is our wedding anniversary, and the annual trip out to Blue Ginger. (Our very favorite restaurant, period.)