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Meh. Not many entries this week at all. I feel grouchy, uncreative, and lacking in interesting thought. I'm boring myself with some of the stuff going through my head, and that's unusual. I looked this morning at the game material I'd written over the last week, and came this close to just deleting it, which I never ever do. I think it's effect of a lack of sleep over the weekend, combined with the erratic weather - an unpleasant mixture of reasonably high pressure, some sunshine, and a lot of showers and wind. Whatever it is, I don't like it, I want my old brain back.
Work is being just average, for here. No spare time, but no massive deadlines, either. I'm becoming more and more envious of people who don't spend 100% of their time in work actually working - as it is, working through some of lunchtimes and often some overtime, I'm probably working about 105% of a 40 hour week. This is as opposed to the 75% in IONA or Kerna - not that I was doing nothing for the other 25%, but I had time to read things like HTML and Perl mailing lists, look at web design magazines/webzines, and discuss work-related stuff with other people. Here, I'm subscribed to only two mailing lists (one general webdesign, one XSL) and I haven't had time to as much as look at them in over two weeks.
And this isn't really something I can take to the Guy I Report To - what do I say? "I'm working all the time I'm in work." I did mention the lack of list-reading time before, and it was suggested that I take an afternoon once a month or so to catch up. I don't know how to explain that you can't catch up on web development in 4 hours a month.
And there's the associated trouble that the 105% nature of work leaves me less able to do stuff outside work. I was out for dinner with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
olethros and inannajones last Wednesday or so, and having been in work until after 18:30, I spent the whole evening in Very Stupid Mode. And my game work is suffering.
Enh. This extended whinge brought to you by the letters O and W, and the number 9. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
Work is being just average, for here. No spare time, but no massive deadlines, either. I'm becoming more and more envious of people who don't spend 100% of their time in work actually working - as it is, working through some of lunchtimes and often some overtime, I'm probably working about 105% of a 40 hour week. This is as opposed to the 75% in IONA or Kerna - not that I was doing nothing for the other 25%, but I had time to read things like HTML and Perl mailing lists, look at web design magazines/webzines, and discuss work-related stuff with other people. Here, I'm subscribed to only two mailing lists (one general webdesign, one XSL) and I haven't had time to as much as look at them in over two weeks.
And this isn't really something I can take to the Guy I Report To - what do I say? "I'm working all the time I'm in work." I did mention the lack of list-reading time before, and it was suggested that I take an afternoon once a month or so to catch up. I don't know how to explain that you can't catch up on web development in 4 hours a month.
And there's the associated trouble that the 105% nature of work leaves me less able to do stuff outside work. I was out for dinner with
olethros and inannajones last Wednesday or so, and having been in work until after 18:30, I spent the whole evening in Very Stupid Mode. And my game work is suffering.Enh. This extended whinge brought to you by the letters O and W, and the number 9. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.