The Day After...

As a deadline or, as we call it at work, a code cut off approaches pressure builds and stress levels rise. Especially if the milestone corresponds with a major contractual obligation, such as the one we had yesterday. Afterward, the sudden release is like the exhalation after a swimmer breaks the surface of the water.

Days of frantically scurrying around are replaced by hours of lax boredom waiting for the next list of problems to solve which my manager says will be released tonight. Sadly I won't be at work tomorrow (9/80 for the win!), so that pile of work will have to keep till next week. And that in a nutshell is work for me these days. No more, no less.