Ask him if he likes appliances.

:)

Finally....my current client got me the info to cram on a 10 week project to get it to testing phase in three weeks.

I will offically, now, be starting at the new job on Aug 14 and notified them, which they were fine with, though still wished I was starting earlier.

I look forward to momentary breaks from this push in which I will surely pop in to the LoT.

I need some sleep... :D

Congratulations - once you live through the next few weeks I'm sure it will all end up having been worth it.

I hope so. I think I can do 12-14 hour days 6 days/week with maybe a 4 hour day on Sundays. That comes to about 82 work hours/week for the next 3 weeks, or a total of 246 hours. The problem is that I estimate about 360-400 hours of work needed on it to get the project to testing stage.

A conundrum indeed. I could sit at my desk longer, I suppose, but I'd be completely worthless and probably counterproductive.

After 12-14 hours, you are going to be pretty punch drunk, and your productivity will approach zero (I've been there). I think it may take more than 3 weeks, unless you can quickly rope your family into programming for you.

Child labor - excellent idea. As my dad would always say " what do you think we had kids for? Now go mow the lawn."

A wise man, you dad.

I resurrected this thread to thank you all for the well wishes. Next week I will have been at my new job for an entire year. Very difficult to believe. The last 11 months have seemed shorter than the first 4 weeks.

I've learned a lot, am expanding my skill set, finding and solving problems they didn't know they had previously, and probably creating new ones as well. It's a good place to work, and I've learned better to balance working at an office (as opposed to working at home). I'm also now working 6:30-3:15, so it will work out picking my kids up from school this year (except on Mondays when I have a standing 3:00 meeting).

For those of you that remember, no more of this guy....

But I still miss having you around more.