I’ve been doing some freelance work for the past few weeks. The deadline is this coming Friday. I turned in the last file this afternoon. Of course, there may be some tweaks necessary, or the project manager could hate the whole thing, but I’m pretty sure I’m under-budget and I exceeded the expectation on time. Yay. Now I can go fall down. Working all day and then coming home to work some more is tiring, y’all.
Today at work it was nothing but a series of meetings or trainings and I have to admit most of it made no sense to me. Seriously. I was in the second session of a training listening to the technical person describe what goes on behind the scenes of the thing my colleague just trained us on and I found myself saying I have no idea what in the hell this is about. I’ve been to nearly every project meeting and have reviewed the material. Still. Don’t ask me a dang thing about it. It’s all blah, blah, blah-tee, blah-blat as far as I’m concerned.
I walked over to our other building to talk to some testers to get their advice on training I’m leading later this month. I was early and so I did some research on my phone about a problem I was having with that last file I turned in today for the freelance gig. This is the first time I’ve spent a second of work time on this project so I don’t feel bad about it. I found something that seemed like a path to success so I sent myself an email. Lo and behold, the thing I could not “see” yesterday evening was as plain as day. It took me less than a half hour to fix the problem and turn in the file. Thank you Articulate Heroes. I can’t tell you how that little bit of success made me so much better after the beating my brain took today at work.