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Dead Week

Unlike last years software release efforts which kept me online and working virtually every-single-day from Thanksgiving to Feb 15, this years efforts have me out the door in time to enjoy some well deserved time off. It should only take a couple of days for me to decompress and relax...

And since its raining and the daily temperature is somewhere in the low 60's, we can also kiss any sort of skiing activity goodbye this week( to warm to ski, to cold to Kayak ). So, I will be catching up on blog maintenance, some reading, a few book reviews here and there, and maybe get around to building a couple of models that I've had sitting on the bench, hook up the webcam, that sort of thing. I may also republish some of my posts from the year, just to give you fellow vacation-eers something to read while I'm casually recreating.

You see, blogging goes up when work goes down. Its not that I havent wanted to blog, but you have to sleep now and then!

The week between Christmas and New Years is traditionally known in the software business as "dead week", the reason its called this is that even if you are not out of the office "on vacation" there are usually so few people on staff that almost nothing can occur even if you wanted it to. So, you have a case where people go to work just to mark time, but theres almost nothing to do, so its a "dead week". Usually I dont take "dead week" off for vacation, I catch up on professional reading and finish upgrading my certifications and use vacation time for more valuable times of the year, but after last years seemingly never ending nightmare I'm not taking the chance this year of being the only guy still around during this years "Dead week".


So, let the games begin!

Posted @ December 22, 2005 07:57 PM | Current Affairs

Comments

You've got that right. In my experience, it's actually the last two weeks or so. Most companies freeze their application changes right before year end, so projects go into suspended animation.

It isa good time to catch up on those tasks that never get done any other time, which is what I've been doing this week. Next week I'm off for all of dead week for the first time in about 5 years.

Posted by: DC at December 23, 2005 05:17 AM