On the move
I've been awfully busy this last week. On Tuesday I was made project lead. This is a good thing and a bad thing. I'm taking over from someone who is senior to me who is now reporting to me until he moves off the project. Tuesday was nuts trying to figure out what everyone was working on and what had fallen through the cracks. For a couple of nights I didn't sleep well with everything running through my mind. The rest of the week improved greatly. By the time I left on Friday, I was still stressed out, but I think everything will be fine. It's a new experience having my performance based on the performance of other people. For now I'm following a principle that Ronald Reagan put forth. "Trust first. Verify later."
Friday night we participated in the Relay for Life at the Frisco High School. It was an all night walk-a-thon. The youth were responsible for walking from 2:00 AM to 5:00 AM. We planned to stay all night, but the temperature just kept dropping. I finally convinced Dezi to go to my apartment about 10:00 that night. We guessed that at the coldest point it was 45 degrees. I know the wind chill put it into the 30's. The youth and I were quite a sight trying to stay warm. I brought a tent, but the wind finally put an end to the tent. I'd had it for about 12 years and it just wasn't going to cut it any more. I have funny stories to tell about that tent. Maybe I'll include them later.
Since Friday I've been doing my best to recuperate from the weekend. Saturday and Sunday I've spent most of the time in bed. It's been nice since I'm not going to be able to do that much over the next few months.
