Workity work

First, work is getting hectic. I've worked from 7:30 AM to about 6PM most of the last two weeks, and on weekends a more reasonable amount of about 2-3 hours. It's pretty much just like putting in an extra day a week, and it's helping me get things done more quickly. I figure the more time I spend now, the less I'll have to spend in the next two weeks before the deadline comes.

The job has taken much more time than we realized, which is understandable since no one at our company has attempted to redesign an existing program to be part of a real-time transmission system. I didn't have a good understanding of what was going on with the program originally, since I'd only been hired at the onset of this project. We're getting the work done though, and hopefully we'll finish up late this week with some of the trickier, small features we've been waiting to implement.

This week we've got our annual user meeting to let our users throughout the state see the changes that have been made to update our programs to the new DOE system. Kristina and I will have the first meeting in Shreveport on the 26th and the second in Baton Rouge on the 27th. I'm looking forward to getting feedback from the users and getting to meet them.