There are times when the day just doesn’t seem like it’s going to end. I ran into that several times today. I think today it was from information overload and the need to do a bit of catching up. Regardless, it made for a work day that seemingly dragged on. By the time I got home I was really just shot. Not physically, but psychologically. Yeah, something like that.

Anyway, I took some time to just hang around tonight. Really didn’t get anything special accomplished (aside from the fact that instead of wait until after I put Kirstin to bed to upload pictures, I did it before 9pm tonight). Although, I did do some web updates that’d been requested some time ago, which only took about an hour. It took longer to do some CSS research on the particular effect I was wanting to do than it did to actually do it.

Ah well, I’m pretty sure I’m going to spend a long day at work tomorrow, and just stay in town until choir practice at 7pm. It’ll work out well, I think, because I can then turn off the phone for a while (come late afternoon) and just hit things hardcore without distraction or interruption. That’s the only really bad thing about working in a very small office setting (especially when one person is out as is the case right now) — everyone’s a jack of all trades.

I don’t actually mind much of the support work I end up doing. I try my best to only handle the second-level stuff, though. The things that are more technical or detailed in nature (that generally I’m the only one moderately capable of solving said problem). And once in a while the ‘easy questions’ are really quite welcome (especially after dealing with some of the questions I get). But I also find it really frustrating at times when I’m really flying with some code or other work project and get ‘interrupted’ by the phone or some other communication (email). I always prioritize incoming requests (especially the electronic ones, to which it’s easier to sometimes ‘ignore’ for an hour or two), but the phone can really be hit or miss sometimes.

I don’t like to do that to people, but there are many times when those exact people don’t necessarily know or understand that if I take an hour or two out of my prime time to handle their problem, that’s an hour or two longer it’s going to take for the next update to come out. A few calls isn’t so bad, but multiply the effect and it could quickly grow into days. So there’s a fine balance to maintain, and I think that by and large we accomplish that quite well. At least I hope so (I haven’t heard any complaints through the grapevine about my performance in support).

Anyway, now that I’ve rambled on about that, I think I’m going to call it a night. Kirstin will officially be at the six week mark come 6AM (just under seven hours from now), so tomorrow is the start of a new photoset on Flickr! I will probably see about doing another photo blog entry tomorrow. I like the additional bits of colors and variation to text that the photo blog entries bring to my long, textual ramblings. Alright, I’m really going to stop typing now. I promise.

Until next time…

–MZ