Work Weekend
Jan. 26th, 2009 01:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournFor a weekend that started with not much scheduled, it went by damn fast. Friday evening was a birthday party for one of my RPGA gaming friends at Serious Pie. It was a 'not pizza' joint--by 'not pizza' I mean the kind of thing California Pizza Kitchen labels as pizza--with a somewhat snooty menu presentation and 'gourmet' ingredients. In any case it was an entertaining and social evening.
Saturday I slept in, cleaned house, and then went to work for a few hours. I've been doing a development project the past few months, and we are coming down to the last few weeks before release. Since I'm basically doing the product management, the technical design, and the test development with the help of one of the engineers in my group, it's a lot of work to do in a short time. Plus with the angst about layoffs, it's probably not a bad weekend to be crunching a bit. At the birthday party, I was invited to join in on an unofficial Living Greyhawk game with some other old-timer RPGA folks. As the campaign was shot in the head at the end of 2008 in favor of 4th edition--the RPGA was bought by WotC and turned into a purely marketing arm a few years back, so it no longer really matters what the membership wants to play--it was completely unofficial. Still, there are a lot of modules we missed. Given that it was a home game with long-time friends, it was quite enjoyable and low-stress. It went quite late with several hours of the chit-chat and a lot of trying to remember the details of characters not played in some time.
Again a late morning Sunday, and then catching up with my brother on the phone. Again, I went to work to continue my push. I had planned to leave about 7pm for a evening at home, perhaps playing Lord of the Rings Online with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cuddlyeconomist. Unfortunately, just as I was finishing up and copying my weekend's work to a second location, I moved the files the wrong way. Two and half hours of reconstruction work later, and I got them all back and finally called it a night. Normally I don't leave that much work checked out from source control, but it was tons of tiny changes. It sucked, but at least I had a way of getting it back--for the technical people out there: I lost the private source header, but I had a cooked version for both platforms and could reconstruct the original with some extensive cut & paste. I'm just glad I realized the mistake before I lost the opportunity to get them back.
Saturday I slept in, cleaned house, and then went to work for a few hours. I've been doing a development project the past few months, and we are coming down to the last few weeks before release. Since I'm basically doing the product management, the technical design, and the test development with the help of one of the engineers in my group, it's a lot of work to do in a short time. Plus with the angst about layoffs, it's probably not a bad weekend to be crunching a bit. At the birthday party, I was invited to join in on an unofficial Living Greyhawk game with some other old-timer RPGA folks. As the campaign was shot in the head at the end of 2008 in favor of 4th edition--the RPGA was bought by WotC and turned into a purely marketing arm a few years back, so it no longer really matters what the membership wants to play--it was completely unofficial. Still, there are a lot of modules we missed. Given that it was a home game with long-time friends, it was quite enjoyable and low-stress. It went quite late with several hours of the chit-chat and a lot of trying to remember the details of characters not played in some time.
Again a late morning Sunday, and then catching up with my brother on the phone. Again, I went to work to continue my push. I had planned to leave about 7pm for a evening at home, perhaps playing Lord of the Rings Online with
cuddlyeconomist. Unfortunately, just as I was finishing up and copying my weekend's work to a second location, I moved the files the wrong way. Two and half hours of reconstruction work later, and I got them all back and finally called it a night. Normally I don't leave that much work checked out from source control, but it was tons of tiny changes. It sucked, but at least I had a way of getting it back--for the technical people out there: I lost the private source header, but I had a cooked version for both platforms and could reconstruct the original with some extensive cut & paste. I'm just glad I realized the mistake before I lost the opportunity to get them back.
