Sorry I've been so busy, guys, just haven't had time to post at all.  I am on the project from hell at work.  Tuesday I worked a 15 hour day which finished up at about 2 AM.  I spent the entire day trying to get a new feature implemented and working on this product I'm involved with.  At 1:30 AM it was finally finished, and I took some screenshots, wrote up a report to explain how it all worked, sent the report to the team and checked everything in.  The next day I got up at about 11 AM and checked my e-mail.  From the entire team I had but one response, from my boss.  Here's what it said:

Thanks for the update.

Not, thanks for busting your ass, or wow looks great, or take the day off.  I was pondering alternative employment when the phone rang.

“Hello?” I said.

“Hi Chuck, are you sleeping right now?” It was my boss.

“I just crawled out of bed a few minutes ago and was getting ready to pack up and come in to work.  What's up?”  Here it comes, I said to myself, she's decided to thank me over the phone, the personal touch and all that.

“I'm here with [the QA guy] and [the customer's technical lead] and we'd like you to walk us through the new screen.”

Now that the QA guy and the customer know that I just crawled out of bed, sure why not?  ”Um, sure, although that report I sent you pretty much covers it.” I said while rubbing sleep out of my eyes.

“Well we think we get it, but we'd like you to go through it anyway, and then we'd like to discuss how we'd like it changed.“ 

*sigh*  Not only do I not get a thanks for working all night  but I do get a your work isn't good enough.

And the changes they wanted?  Completely cosmetic and IMHO unnecessary, the “new” version is no better than the old version and is going to cost me another 4 hours at some point.  Yayyyyyy.

I gotta get a new job.

So since I've been too busy to post, I uploaded some new pictures.  Nothing amazing, pictures of my cats mostly.  Check 'em out in the recent photos sidebar at the left.  Hope y'all had a Happy Solstice (or Yule for the Wiccans out there) yesterday, and enjoy the beginning of Humanlight (for the atheists/agnostics out there) which starts tomorrow and runs until the 27'th I believe, Happy Hannukah to my Jewish friends, and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everybody.  Happy Holidays.