Incremental Improvements
La Professeure is upstate now with her father. Apparently her dad has continued to improve slowly, and they like the nursing home/rehab center that he is staying at, so that is good news. He is awake for longer amounts of time, speaks more often, but still can’t hold a conversation.
We came back from Christmas holidays the day after New Years while her brother stayed for another week. And another week later (MLK weekend) she went up again. Now that school has started, I’m not sure how sustainable these visits will be. It’s going to be just her mom being there. And she has her own limitations.
I guess we will see.
- D
Backfiring
At the end of the year, Meetup sent an e-mail to users who have been inactive for a long time (I think 6 months) to tell them that they would be automatically removed from our amateur musicians group if they didn’t log in. We expected membership to drop in the new year. Instead, that e-mail reminded people that they were part of our group, so more than triple the amount of people RSVP-ed on meetup.
I had to worry about the recital space being too small, but in the end it turned out okay - meetup only represents maybe a quarter of our concert attendance, so even with that part tripled, the concert space held up. There were a few people who came in late that had to stand but there were empty seats they decided not to take.
The concert itself was pretty good, except for the very last performance - someone played the Chaccone and claimed to only need 10 minutes. I had assumed they were playing an abridged version, but nope, they played the whole thing. So I had to warn them to stick to the time. And remember not to give performers too much credit, even those who had performed with us before. The sad thing is, she was easily the worst of the performers there. It was painful to have to sit through her playing, worried about getting kicked out of the performance hall, and trying not to fall asleep.
Hopefully this doesn’t deter some of the “new” people; I guess we’ll know next month.
- S
It pays the bills
It used to be the case that we’d listen to product managers talk about market needs, looking at potential opportunities where our company could fill, and then half a year or so later, that would materialise into a project and we would work on it, and deliver it a year or more later. These days I get assigned projects with little warning or knowing where it came from. And, they’re not particularly technically challenging either.
I’m not sure if it’s because I’m disengaged from long-term planning or if there isn’t long-term planning anymore. Or because I’m more experienced in the new team, that fewer projects seem as challenging anymore.
I haven’t felt this much like a grunt since I first joined the company.
- N
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