Vacation Time

So, today is my last day for a while. I'm going to Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado for a week, very far away from cell phone towers, internet, and power – at least while I'm on the trail.

Today was the colossus of people all calling me, coming to my desk, and wanting me to do stuff.

I was doing two people's jobs plus my own. Since I had helped those people out with stuff, I knew what they did for much of their job, so I could do it to some extent. Well, all the people I had helped out on my coworkers behalf started contacting me directly, because two of my fellow coworkers were gone.

So, it was e-mails piling on top of e-mails, with an ultimatum given to me by anther coworker to get a script out the door in an hour, no less...since a company which I am fond of needed something by 5. Joy.

So it was a little stressful watching some of my tasks colliding in mid air while the debris rained down on other tasks.

So, basically, I recycled stuff in the keyword queue in intermittent spurts while I hacked away at the couple of Perl scripts that needed to be done. Somehow and some way, between the confused people calling me and the stupid bugs Perl threw my way, I got everything done.

Hooray.

I will be blogging about my adventures in Colorado, just to keep consistency in my writing and having a nice log for my trip.

Yes, this laptop will probably be on top of some mountains as I type. That will be pretty cool.

Since my Colorado trip has nothing to do with my job (Well, a lot of what I type doesn't, but whatever), all my entries will be put on http://xanga.com/danmagicman7

Follow it if you want. If I have momentary access to the Internet, posting my xanga entries online will be the first thing I'll do.