Week 38 Retrospective & Week 39 Outlook 2021

Week 38 Retrospective
Overall feel - last week was a grind. Despite that all my projects are green, SJSL went well on Sunday and not a complete disaster, the week in totality felt like a drag. A few negatives outweighed the positives, hopefully I can flip the script in week 39.
- Surgery - tough week to focus when one of your children needs surgery. It was downgraded, prognosis was positive, but it still threw me off to start the week.
- Project assumption (I assumed ownership for the project) when key personnel are rolled off. My partner at the client, with me for over a year, had to roll off due to his contract expiring.
- Dependency - integration blues when systems out of our control are failing. 500s on major service calls, made development and testing untenable. Need to explain to QA that the errors are integration.
- Injury - Haglund’s Deformity and Chronic Achilles Tendonitis - barely walking, shooting pain on dorsiflexion of my right foot.
- Attended the Snowflake Financial Services Data Summit - Americas. This was interesting, FinTech knowledge is on my professional learning goals.
- Roll20 MarkUn2 Something fun to do, I got back into D&D with a Cleric who thinks all Mages are possessed and need to be exorcised.
Week 39 outlook
- Project Release for testing
- Back to School Night
- Team Introduction Lunch
- CPEs from CodeRed
- Project for SJSL -> Schedule Manager
- Project for SJSL -> SJS1
- Wednesday Night Gaming
References
Ру́сский WOTDs this week
- фен: hairdryer
- Круто!
- заводи́ться/завести́сь: to start (an engine)
- утёнок: duckling
- хоро́шенький: cute
- шлёпки: flip-flops
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