New Record

This has to be some kind of record: from waking up at 5:52 to checked-in at the airport and waiting for my flight at 6:28.

The alarm clock didn't go off (my subconscious sending me a less than subtle message about how much I *love* going to Vernon). The flight boards at 6:50. Waking up less than an hour before depature time is *not* recommended. In theory I should have already been here at the point I woke up.

I have a presentation today where I am to show the SharePoint site I've working on. Not only do I hate going to Vernon at the best of times, but going to present software I think sucks to people I don't care about at the company that put everyone I've worked with for the last three years out of a job on what should be my day off according to my contract *really* sucks.

I need to fire this client.

Meh

Today wasn't so bad after-all. Of course now I'm stuck in the airport for a few hours, but that's why they put bars in airports. Maybe I'll go take a nap by the terminal in a bit.

I'd forgotten what kind of crap these people are used to. *I* know that SharePoint is crap compared to what they could have, but in comparison to the circa 1998 Cold-Fusion based application running on a PII, they don't see not so much as crap but as da shit.

Because the Vancouver office is shutting down, they are going to set me up with a VOIP phone that will give me a Vernon office "local" and allow me to work from home on this with infinitely less stress. My contract says I have to be available 9-12 & 1-3, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday and put in 21 hours a week on the project. Going into the (dying) Vancouver office makes the two the same, but with a local at home I can be "available" and be working on a painting and I can put my hours in when and how I see fit.

I guess I won't be firing these guys just yet.