saga so far
thu am: packing up the beautiful and talented alisa and the boys to go on the annual camp michigania trip. this year they've got an extra jaunt to chicago and macinac island planned. i'm excluded from those extra bits so i can stay home and gets lots of work done. thu aft: ceo cancels my entire trip. thu pm: not cool. compensate me. fri am: ceo: no, have a nice trip. yay! vacation. fri am: a/c fails in the server building. things get unreliable. fri am: managers of all groups ask their employees to come in to work this weekend. fri aft: meeting with ceo. expectation is he'll sign off on all the hard work we've done since the last time he saw the product. instead he raises the bar and adds an insane number of new deliverables. fuck, no vacation. fri aft: folks discover the server room is 150 degrees and computers have failed. mad scramble to repair the damage. fri pm: a/c restored. servers restored. fri pm: drunk employee sets a fire in the main building. fire trucks and everything. timmer works through the evacuation order. fri pm: cancel flights and break the bad news to alisa again. sat am: fell asleep on the train. skated back to palo alto from menlo park. sat aft: change all passwords. sat aft: product has gone from wow! to holy fucking shit wow! except for a few minor problems that will be really fucking difficult to fix. so, how was your week?