Crunch time...

Sorry for the lack of posting recently. This year has been dominated by work so far. On the 7th of February I will have been with this company for 1 year. I am now getting to the “crunch time” for the design that I have been working on since I started last year. There have been a lot of distractions (other little projects and changes in the specifications) that have caused this design to really drag on. All of a sudden everyone is panicking about getting this project finished, so by the end of this month, we will be releasing all of the design details to our manufacturers. Personally, I welcome the additional pressure. A little bit of pressure seems to bring out the best in me and really helps me make the final push to get things done.

The downside of working hard and putting in extra hours is that I am completely drained by the time I get home. I have had a hard time getting motivated to work on my music and recording project.

In other more random news… I stayed up watching my beloved Bears blow it in the Super Bowl on Sunday night. The sad thing was that the game stayed close enough throughout that I had to keep watching until the end (3:30AM). There was always a chance that they might put a couple of drives together and get back into it. Sadly, this never happened, despite the best efforts of the Chicago defense, the offense never got going.

I got caught up on my sleep last night by getting to bed early. It was one of those strange nights when I heard noises in the house, but was too dead to realize what might be going on. This morning when I woke up there was a dead mouse in the middle of the rug in the living room. The noises that I heard were the cat scrambling around after a mouse and then proudly yowling about her catch, but nobody got up to admire it.

JE