The term Busy Season rears its ugly head
Last year I was incredibly lucky when it came to busy season - I was on a job where I had mercifully little to do. I felt a little guilty that everyone else seemed to be working like mad while I essentially coasted through the fall.
Then of course I worked the winter busy season - but all those hours were needed for my CA, so it didn't feel like that much of a chore.
Now, I'm in my second busy season and I'm getting the full Busy Season treatment. It should probably be obvious by the fact that I haven't done any posting since my trip last week!
Travelling out of town can either lead to a scenario where you have tons of time to kill, or you're trying to experience as much as you can and can hardly find time to sit down and write about what you've done.
Needless to say, the latter scenario played itself out last week. And since then, I've worked on five different clients in a ridiculously short period of time. There is a light at the end of this tunnel - things should calm down by tomorrow, fortunately!
I found myself with one nice long job - long jobs are nice, since you have more time to space out the workload! - and a few jobs with "loose ends" I had to tie up.
I could've dragged everything out a few more days but I really didn't want to - that would only extend the period of insanity. So I tried to do everything as soon as possible. And I came pretty close to succeeding.
Now to see if things calm down, or keep humming along at a ridiculous tempo - will I get any time to go back to playing
Company of Heroes or
Sid Meier's Railroads! anytime soon? I hope so - CoH is so much fun, and hopefully SMR's numerous crash bugs will be fixed by the point when I have time to enjoy it again.