I was hoping to be able to say that September has been a really good month for me. I had high expectations for two things that were supposed to go through rather seamlessly, resulting in, well, good things. The reality, however, has been far removed from the expectations.
Instead, I find that my stress level at work is at an all-time high. So many blockades have been causing so many problems, and they are not sitting well with one of my co-workers who seems to love trolling over me with threats of weekend work that my boss isn't even interested in us doing. He's already got me working late nights, and this is causing me to fall behind on one of my projects I'm working on for some friends of mine, one that I can't really afford to fall behind on.
One of the people who was with this new project has moved on shortly after I started working on it, making me the only person doing development now. If I don't do it, no one can, and I don't see that result being pretty. Already I've had some stressful issues come up on this project, and I've done my best to deflect the stress from that situation by providing them with what I can.
The bottom line is that I'm now taking 12 to 16 hours a day to accomplish next to nothing, and because things have seemingly fallen through, not only has September been all but ruined for me, October isn't really looking all that great either.
Oh, what I wouldn't give to be where I was just three months ago, working quickly on my own projects while working normal hours at my job. I was getting stuff done back then. Life was a lot simpler then.
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In California, truck license plates are 7 characters, all numbers except for one letter in either the second or the sixth position. Whenever that letter is an X, I get nerd snipped into treating it as a multiplication problem and solving it in my head.
we should have paid more attention to the cats who, for decades, put their bodies on the line to walk on keyboards and sit on laptops and prevent us from programming
Former 2 time world champion DogPlayingTetris becomes the first player to ever rollover the level counter in NES Tetris, performing what's known in the community as "Rebirth". Final score: 29,486,164, 4216 lines, level 347 (256 + 91)... all huge world records. #tetris
I'd also love a 6 hour layover overnight instead of taking the red eye I was going to take and be 7 hours later getting into Cleveland than I wanted, why do you ask? #airporthell
Why yes, I'd love to leave at 4:40 to get to the airport at 6:20 for an 8:20 flight that got delayed to 9:05 which is too late for my connection so now I'm on a 10:20 flight instead. Why do you ask? #airporthell
@shanselman Who at Microsoft do I have to bribe to fix ADO so that those of us on dark mode who copy/paste text from one task to another can do so without our friends on light mode seeing dark text on a dark background?
I updated the blog post with a statement from Revival. While I'm not particularly happy with Revival's decision, I understand their motives. It's just a shame that it was someone from Interplay that had to go and do this. "By games for gamers" my ass.
Damn, got another Tetris world record! This time in the arcade variant developed by Atari. 6,008,005 points, 5,386 lines, round 363. Be warned, it's nearly FIVE HOURS. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2131759212