Runester

Today was supposed to be the closing on the sale of my condo. Instead, it was delayed … for up to a week. Oh, well. I’ve been waiting nearly two years – what’s another week? The primary difficulty is in getting my primary and secondary lender on the same page at the same time. Luckily I have a great lawyer and real estate agent working on my behalf. With even more luck, everything will fall together next week and this time then, I’ll be reporting my joy at the completion of this interminable process.

Work is grating. I actually feel myself going backwards! If I finish five cases, I get assigned six more. In order to keep up with the cases, my project work suffers. In order to meet my project deadlines, I have cases sitting in pending states and not being closed for days – or longer. Each day I start with the good intention of grinding through as much as possible – and each day something comes up, another meeting, another crisis, another meeting to discuss the latest crisis.

Our saving grace is that management understands this situation and has not been pushing too hard. That, and that fact that we have two new co-workers! One started on Tuesday the other in another week. It will take some time for them to get trained and fully operational, but the faster that happens the faster that the work load can be distributed and higher the output our group can produce.

Know what would be really nice? If we could get through this deployment / migration phase and return to maintenance. A nice quiet period where we spend most of our time taking care of the few issues that come up, the occasional upgrade, and then the rest plotting and trying new and cooler applications! I’m told that was how things were before Exchange was mandated. Perhaps, if we work hard enough and stick with it, it’s how things will be again. That would be great!