done!

For the last three weeks or so, I've been working insane hours as my team approaches the first public release of the software we've been working on for the last year and a half. It would normally be bad enough, but two weeks ago, we decided that we (mostly me) needed to replace a pretty major feature at the last minute.

Kendre and the kids have been very patient and understanding while I worked 80-110 hour weeks. I had to put off going out for our anniversary, taking Mathias out for his bday lunch-with-a-parent, and a bunch of other stuff. If I've owed you an email or phone call or anything else, I'm sorry if I've neglected those things.


As of about 5:45pm today, my part of the project was sent on to the next step in the chain. It gets bundled into a larger project, and finally into a much larger software package. There will be a few weeks of intensive testing (we've had testing going on concurrently with development also) to prepare the final project. It's possible - even likely - that there will be some things to fix, but major changes will likely not be permitted until after the final release. Then starts work on the first fix-pack.

Now I'm taking some (ok, a lot of) time off work. We are going to see my parents for a few days and after that, I'm going to do stuff around the house and catch up on sleep. And make up for some stuff I've missed out on doing....