Amazing self restraint

RC — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:51:24 +0000

Tonight, for the first night since Saturday, the day “Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows” arrived I’ll be in bed before midnight. Not much before midnight mind you, but still, it’s progress. In previous years when I received the latest installment of the Potter franchise I would be known to read until the ultra-wee hours of the morning and cram as much in as possible over the weekend it dropped. This year has been a bit different of course, what with the new baby & new job. I’m not quite through with the book yet, but I have definitely crossed the 50% threshold, and there was never any choice of turning back. I’ve added Harry Potter to my now reading list, with the full intention that I will probably finish the book by the end of the week.
For a quick update on the new job, things couldn’t be better. I’ve been given some time to come up to speed on their version control, build, and other processes, meanwhile having a project that would give me the ability to inspect a large amount of code, and change relatively little. I feel pretty comfortable with the tool now, and I’m looking forward to some more challenging work. Tomorrow (Wednesday) is code freeze, so I’ll be pushing a bit tomorrow afternoon to make sure one last, very small tweak (changing some user permissions), makes the cut, but shouldn’t have to burn the midnight oil by any means. That is a far cry from every other release I’ve worked over the past year, and from what I can make of the process the testing and move to production should be similarly controlled and orderly.

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Amazing self restraint