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A touch less sleep than i prefer last night, but enough slow wake up time this morning, i think.
Yesterday's summit meetings were more pleasant than the previous December series. Nonetheless, there are problems. The current work plan calls for 24 some odd more staff. Our team's work plan's request for three more staff is not included. We're planning expansion into two different international regions, and it still takes us a whole week to get a new release built and installed. (Admittedly, the install is on eighty some different systems -- probably a hundred by now -- with our team's services on probably twenty five of those.)
The Architect, however, has apparently spent the past few weekends working on a "Service oriented Management System dynamic configuration tool." Far more ambitious than what i have asked for: I
can't decide if i really admire the complete problem solving approach.... I suppose i will wait to see if we have a useful tool in the necessary timeframe. My fear is that by making it into a great big project there's less likelihood of seeing a functional solution. He's delighted to be working on it, though, so i suspect that means that the magic tool will actually be produced.
Dinner out last night was hosted and mixed us California folks up with people involved in other projects. We went to Polaris, a horrifying sprawl of mall and chains and commercialism, the parking lots full on a Tuesday evening. The Cantina Laredo was perfectly reasonable gourmet Mexican in an attractive setting: i had an avocado-artichoke enchilada on a bed of spinach, with a delicious side of jicama carrot mango salad. Our host seemed proud of the shopping mecca, but i couldn't quite tell if she was being sarcastic. Soulless horror sucking the life out of any chance of finding distinctively local character, is my summary. Nonetheless, the restaurant was just fine, and the conversation quite pleasant. My end of the table, with my boss and the systems analyst from the operations division, was pleasantly geeky and left leaning. The geekage was aircraft stories and radio stories and some boat stories, none of which i could directly contribute to, but which i enjoyed. Flying backwards in a Cessna in a 60 mile per hour headwind was my favorite. My boss recapped what he knew of the final Coast Guard evaluation of Jim Gray's disappearance, as he knew Jim Gray and knows the lead Coast Guard investigator.
Yesterday's summit meetings were more pleasant than the previous December series. Nonetheless, there are problems. The current work plan calls for 24 some odd more staff. Our team's work plan's request for three more staff is not included. We're planning expansion into two different international regions, and it still takes us a whole week to get a new release built and installed. (Admittedly, the install is on eighty some different systems -- probably a hundred by now -- with our team's services on probably twenty five of those.)
The Architect, however, has apparently spent the past few weekends working on a "Service oriented Management System dynamic configuration tool." Far more ambitious than what i have asked for: I
can't decide if i really admire the complete problem solving approach.... I suppose i will wait to see if we have a useful tool in the necessary timeframe. My fear is that by making it into a great big project there's less likelihood of seeing a functional solution. He's delighted to be working on it, though, so i suspect that means that the magic tool will actually be produced.
Dinner out last night was hosted and mixed us California folks up with people involved in other projects. We went to Polaris, a horrifying sprawl of mall and chains and commercialism, the parking lots full on a Tuesday evening. The Cantina Laredo was perfectly reasonable gourmet Mexican in an attractive setting: i had an avocado-artichoke enchilada on a bed of spinach, with a delicious side of jicama carrot mango salad. Our host seemed proud of the shopping mecca, but i couldn't quite tell if she was being sarcastic. Soulless horror sucking the life out of any chance of finding distinctively local character, is my summary. Nonetheless, the restaurant was just fine, and the conversation quite pleasant. My end of the table, with my boss and the systems analyst from the operations division, was pleasantly geeky and left leaning. The geekage was aircraft stories and radio stories and some boat stories, none of which i could directly contribute to, but which i enjoyed. Flying backwards in a Cessna in a 60 mile per hour headwind was my favorite. My boss recapped what he knew of the final Coast Guard evaluation of Jim Gray's disappearance, as he knew Jim Gray and knows the lead Coast Guard investigator.
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Soulless horror sucking the life out of any chance of finding distinctively local character, is my summary.
Yeah, as someone who lived up that way just as they were building all that mess, I remember when that was all farmland, too. *cries*