Already under high pressure to get Magma installed, more equally high priority stuff has been put on my plate. Crescendo has been put on hold for over a month so that we could work on Magma. My best guess is that there's another 2 full weeks of programming to finish the stuff that needs to be finished so they can go live with the second major module. The first major module was finished late October, but they haven't started using it because of some complicated issues out of my control. Apr 1st is quickly approaching and they were supposed to be using Crescendo by then. Now the plan is to roll out both modules at the same time instead of phasing one in then the other. I'm supposed to go up to their office to do some other work next week and Doug has asked if I can put Magma on hold to finish Crescendo before I go up! That's about 2 weeks of programming over the next 5 days. On top of that, I had to upgrade their mail server to support anti-spam filtering & malcious attachment filtering, reconfigure the RAID drives in a new server, purchase and install the OS, configure it to be a fileserver with about 50 accounts, configure the tape drive, install SQL Server 2000 & Crescendo Server on it and I'm sure there's more. That means I'll be working day and night. I really don't think all of that will get done by the end of Tuesday night. I started work on Crescendo again on Friday but had a million other things to do and didn't get much Crescendo work done. Today I spent about 4.5 hours working on the mail server because of configuration problems and poor documentation so didn't get much Crescendo work done either. However tomorrow (Sunday) I'll go in early and spend the whole day and night and will hopefully get one of ther major parts finished. I've been working hard like this for over a month now and know that I'll burn out for a while if I don't slow down soon. Hopefully I can slow down in about 2 weeks. I don't mind doing this once and a while.. the killer is having to walk 45 mins each way in the cold. Try doing that once in the morning, then coming home for dinner, then going back after dinner and then walking home again. Do that Saturday and Sunday. Sure I could cab if I want to spend $30/day. Hmm now that I think about it, it's cheaper to cab then to waste 3 hours walking when I could be working.

** Update : It's Sunday 8:00 PM and I'm at work... I was just telling Bruce about my new deadline and as I was telling him my nose burst and started bleeding! I quickly got it under control, but wow! That doesn't happen often.