So far this year feels like this year is flying past at an insane pace, like I've not had a chance to relax.
The end of the year I spent mostly working through the holidays feeling a bit put out by it. (Single dudes get jacked for holidays in the corporate world.) Spanning into the beginning of the year I was running at a fast pace to get work squared away before Further Confusion. The last day of FC I found that I was on-call that week so I had to make a crash reentry to my day job while heading up the last official day of the convention. Had to run at fast pace the rest of the week to cover on call, the work I'd missed during the week away from work for FC, and sort out post convention loose ends.
During the week, and weekend, following Further Confusion--while on call for work--I developed a nasty viral ear infection making that week not physically agonizing as well as busy and stress filled. The weekend and week after that were no walk in the park either, though I'd sought attention the entire right side of my head was still well fucked from agonizing pain as I recovered.
The week after that I learned that my co-worker was heading off on vacation for two and a half weeks. (Yes, he'd been planning it. No, he didn't put it in the vacation calendar.) I had to ramp up on all of his tasks to take over support of the entire project during his absence. On top of my task stack. On top of an on-call rotation to cover the on-call it'd scheduled for him because I didn't know he was going on vacation.
In there I had one weekend basically free spent in the garage wrenching on motor swap project and zoned out working on post FC work while watching House of Cards.
I'll be on-call this coming weekend, the weekend after that I'll be at Animation on Display doing the FNG thing with FLARE, and the weekend ofter that my entire Saturday is going to be eaten away by Board/Exec meetings. (I would prefer these be on week nights, honestly.) Oh, then the following Monday I go back On-Call.
In the more immediate time frame this week as been even heavily loaded thanks to a another team's cert change that the production pipeline I work. That was a 16 hour day of troubleshooting and emergency deployments. The day after that I was up at 5am supporting another team's deployment that broke pipeline [again] leading to another 16 hour work day. Since the end of FC my days have been 10-12 hours anyway so...well...what's a few more hours, right?
The my coworker should return to the office on the 18th/19th making my work life a little more sane once again. Over all my time will still be just as heavily subscribed, just with a little less stress. I think I only have one free day entirely to myself between now and April.
I admit that I've done some of this to myself. AoD is something I'm looking forward to for the fun of it but still, it is a contributor to my very busy life.
*HeadDesk*
