how did it get to be wednesday night already

i am about to leave work. in the past three days, i have worked 36 hours. i never expected to experience this in a job as a staff engineer; i never expected that there would be days when all my waking hours are spent at work, and the only time i am home is to eat dinner, sleep, eat breakfast, and go back to work. i'm not complaining. but i am exhausted. my back hurts, my eyes hurt, my hands hurt from running unix scripts all day and typing new ones, if you can believe that hands can hurt from typing.

the good news is that tomorrow and friday, and all the days after, should return to "normal" hours. we have decided to go ahead with the ascent/descent analysis happy hour tomorrow night, an event we planned last week before all this chaos.

i am going home. i want to run, but don't feel like i have the energy. we shall see.

we are making progress at work. good progress.

(8:42 p.m.)

i just posted some pictures from the columbia memorial service at work yesterday. view them here.