Hmm, what to talk about today. I think I was on a sugar high yesterday and thus the disjointed thoughts. My thoughts today are about how thankful I am to be leaving this job. To top it off the project that I have been working on the past 9 months has been cancelled. If I was not going to another job I would've been very mad and would've definitely started looking for another job. The people who are currently on the project are going to be moved off onto maintenance work which is the equivalent of giving up on innovation IMO. One year ago I was burnt out on coding, having spent the whole 4th of July weekend coding. I remember watching the fireworks on the Internet as I was programming. I even counted the number of "if" statements I would type in my life and it turned out to be 184,000. That is why my new language doesn't have the word "if" in it. By this time last year I had finished 2 separate projects delivered on-budget and on-time and had kudos from all my superiors. This year I've been twiddling my thumbs in la-la land waiting for the go ahead to code while I've been writing cute little word documents and PowerPoint presentations. One year later I am ready to get back into it. I think I learned a lesson this past year that I am meant to be a developer. Anyway, here at the IRS their motto seems to be - "give me money and I'll do anything except deliver so you have to give me more money so I can deliver." It's a never-ending cycle of funding for projects that never see the light of day. The regular employees are unionized and put up so many roadblocks that they will have jobs for the rest of their lives. Meanwhile the contractors just stop at the roadblocks and wheel and deal and produce documentation for the rest of their lives. It is a sad state of affairs with nothing getting done. I used to not like being in a cube alone and was unhappy and wanted an office. I will now be so grateful for being a cube alone. It all seems to be a matter of perspective. If you know how bad things can get you definitely will feel better about your situation. Anyway, yesterday as they announced the re-org I was thinking to myself "I could give em a piece of my mind and they can't do anything." But then I thought, "Nope, I'd be just like them." So I just looked around the room and smiled.

Thought of the Day
"Isn't there like a statue of limitations on that?"
"Statute."
"What?"
"Statute of limitations. It's not a statue."
"No, it's statue."
"Fine, it's a sculpture of limitations."
- Kramer and Jerry, in "The Cafe"