Holiday Delivery

We've been doing a nice long string of 14+ hour days here to get this project pushed out before the Thanksgiving break.  Technically, it is not due until the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, but nobody wants to come in over the holiday (nor to they want to pay us holiday overtime) so it has to be done tomorrow night.  It is looking pretty good right now.  It's always fun to being going 100 mph constantly handling problems and changes and finding things you missed and then.....hey we don't have anything to do, what happened?  That is usually a good feeling because it means you can go home before midnight.

When I was first starting with the supervising thing my friend Richard told me what another sup told him when he was first starting out.  He said "when you are a cg supervisor you are the one driving the bus".  For my first few jobs I felt like I was more pushing the bus and then occasionally running around to the front to make sure it was pointed in the right direction.  The more projects I do the more time I feel like I am spending at the front of the bus.

I heard that the Congressional superdeduperty committee couldn't come up with a plan to reduce the deficit.  What a shocker.  Word is it came down to the Republican pledge to not raise taxes.  My feeling was even if they had come up with some kind of compromise it would been bs.  The taxes would have been instant put into effect while the cuts would have been scheduled to happen sometime in 2013 and then later repealed.  That being said since the committee could not come up with a plan there is apparently 1.4 trillion in cuts that are going to happen very soon.  The pentagon is scrambling to try to save as much of the defense budget as possible.  I think they are in trouble.  Might have to build a few fewer stealth bombers this year.  The key things that I believe aren't on the chopping block are social security and medicare.  This is like me saying I am going to cut 30% from my monthly expenses but my credit card and mortgage are off limits.  Well gosh if I had a $3000 cell phone bill I that might make sense.  It all comes down to what I've said all along, you can't take stuff away from people.

Hey maybe now that the project appears to be on track I can find a way to go for a run at lunch.  That would be cool!