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My partner is going to love me!

July 19th, 2009 | Author: csrickard

Work has been increasing the past month. We just found out that there’s an August 14th deadline for petitioning for some of the stimulus package for telco. Of course, I’ll be in Montreal Aug 5-10, which means Ali will be flying solo for that week.

(my evil laugh kicks in) Finally he’ll be the one getting swamped with work when I’m on vacay instead of the other way around — like it usually is.

I’m getting excited about the trip to Worldcon. I think it will be both fun and educational. I’m looking forward to meeting several of the author’s attending. It’ll also be neat to get an autographed book or two (I don’t have any!).

I had almost forgotten about my passport. I re-took my maiden name after the divorce, so I had to get a new passport. It should be here sometime in the next 7-10 days. That’s the last piece I need to be ready for the trip. And I’m making sure Ali knows I’m completely out of touch while I’m there (no helping remote like I usually do). God knows he does that to me.

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I shouldn’t have said anything

May 29th, 2009 | Author: csrickard

I jinxed myself by saying I wasn’t as swamped as I usually get when Ali’s out.

A referrel to a potential new client with a data quote; additional analysis on one of the new requests this week; revision of a project I did last month; another new request that I pushed off till tomorrow (yes, that would be saturday)…oh yes, and let’s not forget my normal client load that I was able to partially complete.

And that was just today.

Ali gets back on Monday. I hope he enjoyed the time off because I’m dumping a bunch of stuff on him in the morning…payback!

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What is the deal?

May 28th, 2009 | Author: csrickard

My partner, Ali, and I have this running joke about vacations. Everytime he takes one, I get swamped with work. Whether we’re completely dead or casually busy leading up to his week off is irrelevant. The week that he’s gone, I always get slammed with work. He’ll tell people ahead of time he’s out and try and get them to send anything pending in before he leaves, but nothing.

This week? Yep. He’s at the outer banks, his usual vacation spot.

Monday was a holiday, so luckily nothing jumped in then. Tuesday, however, I get two emails forwarded from clients who tried to reach him first. The third request came in as a rush job late yesterday afternoon and I had to miss my critique session last night because of it.

The other one is just getting finalized now, and they want to expand it — all due today.

Oh, and then there’s my own client project that I’m also working on.

On the bright side (because I’m always looking on the bright side of things), I’m not as slammed with work as I usually get the weeks he’s out.

Of course, the week’s not over yet.

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