Okay…so the .NET thing I started developing 2 months ago is almost due…so I’ve had to put in a few extra hours lately.
On Thursday, I did 10:30am-1:30am…15 hour day.
Friday…1:30pm-1:00am….11.5 hour day.
Saturday 6pm-2:00am….8 hour day.
Now, I didn’t really mind Thursday night, that was more by choice. I got into the developing groove and didn’t want to leave.
Friday, I had a release that was supposed to start at 11pm and finish by 12am. It started around 12am and finished at 1am. Now I was kinda pissed for this one because I had to miss a friend’s birthday event which was at a bar right across the street from where I live. My other friend, who was at that birthday thing, was walking home and I ended up meeting him at 1am, just as my release/conference call was ending. But yeah, saw one friend, hung out with him til 2-3ish…so the night was okay.
Today, came in at 6pm to work on my .NET tool…had a release that was, ideally, supposed to finish at around 10:30pm. Sh!t happened cuz the CMS I was using is f*cking garbage…I ended up finishing my release at around 2am. I don’t often mind working on off hours for releases but today was also Nuit Blanche, which happens once a year and it happens in downtown Toronto. I usually hang out with my friends til 2 or 3am or w/e. But because I got off work (on a Saturday!!) at 2am, I missed it all. F*cking sucks balls. You know, I don’t get mad too often but I was absolutely hating sh!t today. Anyways…I still walked around downtown Toronto from 2am to 5am…so 3 hours wasn’t bad. My feet were killing by the end so I guess I saw enough.
Really pissed that I had to miss 2 social events because of work, 2 days in a row. F*cking ridiculous.
And to top it all off, I come home and one of my monitors, 19″, isn’t displaying properly. It was fine when I left, at like, 6pm…I come back 8 hours later and I can barely read anything. I’m using it now but the color is all F*ed up. Which means….deal with it or…new 24″ Widescreen. Then I would have 2×24″ Widescreens O_O that’d be pretty nice….but what am I, made of money?! Not sure if I can tolerate the color difference. Also, I’d have to get the exact same 24″ widescreen monitor or my OCD wouldn’t be pleased. Hah, like it’s a separate entity.
Anyways, as soon as I got home, around 2am…the night got better. I went out, saw some kool nuit blanche stuff, had some of those tim tom donuts or w/e…I ate like, 20 of them out of 24….I’m at home and everything’s better. I did make really good progress on my ASP.NET tool too the last 3 days so I’m happy for that. Tomorrow’s all about relaxing my ass off. Which kinda sucks cuz it’s 5:30, I still plan to do some reading tonight, meaning tomorrow’s gonna be awfully short. I’ll have to make the most of it. Argh…still kinda angry, maybe I should read tomorrow…and just sleep and get this terrible day over with.
/rant & nerd rage