Another weekless post?

Check that. Meant to say another postless week.

Work is not the challenge I expected it to be (is it ever?). But the prospect of being able to return to school without the external pressure of having to constantly out perform (read:shine) is an attractive one. I have the typical single office setup, monitor facing away from the door, should the need arise to alt-tab away from the paper or assignment I am focused on. All the while, looking so intent on completing the last bits of a work-related report or document.

Do I feel the least bit guilty about using time at my desk for studies? Normally, I would say yes. However, since I have logged considerable hours at my home office performing work, the guilt is almost non-existent. Once I reach a deficit of time spent of home over work, I will not allow myself to feel the pangs.

A small mention about the work out, I am running Tuesday and Thursday to supplement the thrice weekly workouts.

-nn

min post

it is 2339 on wednesday night. i have been working since 0730.

the build is not ready for testing. i am the only one who can post it.

am fading fast. it is still not ready.

i get paid for doing this............

at times, it makes me ill that it happens this way.

-nn

Motivation = NULL

My motivation to accomplish anything at work is positively nil. I have been able to gather a few coherent thoughts into a passable list of items, but executing on them is an ongoing challenge. I think the ISO audit took more out of me than expected. There are dozens of little, niggling tasks that I just do not care to deal with. Of course, all of them are a priority one and need immediate attention. But for the life of me, I cannot get the brain cells focused long enough to do more than just nudge them along. I feel satisfied just to get the most immediate next step started, normally by someone in another department. I am complacent to remain in an interrupt driven mode, rather than pro actively take charge of the list until each one is completed.

I feel quite happy to focus on the minutiae of each task rather than the entirety because there is comfort in getting lost in things familiar. Whereas, if I were to tackle a bunch of unknowns, I would feel without direction. A silly human condition, but there is some comfort to be had in following it.

-nn

taste of the thread in my head

this is a sample of what is draining the "juice" out of my head.

All applications will undergo a rigorous battery of tests directed to ensure an appropriate functioning application will be delivered to the customer, regardless if the customer is internal or external. Testing will be guided by a series of functional documents, which can vary from SOW, Project Requirements Document (PRD), or Functional Specification.

Time permitting, Quality Assurance (QA) will submit proposed tests in the form of a Master Test Plan for approval by the Project Manager, Lead Developer, and QA Manager in the form of a draft. Shortcomings will be noted and incorporated for final review to the same approving body. The initial version number will be displayed as "0.1". Once all changes have been documented and accepted, the version number of the testplan will reflect approval by changing the version number to “1.0” (per companyName Document Approval process). Follow on changes which detail changes accepted after accepting the completed version will be denoted by changing the version number to “1.1” and so on.

Once the testplan has been accepted the Lead QA engineer will begin crafting individual testcases reflecting the test points outlined in the Master Test Plan.

and so on and so on....

-nn