I’m in New Orleans. At this point, not a whole lot is going on. Will and I went upstairs to the roof and everything was really calm.  We had a band of weather come through around 7pm that brought a lot of rain and wind.  It lasted for only 10 minutes, but we lost power briefly twice.  Definitely a harbinger for tomorrow.  It’ll be nice if we get a full night’s sleep before things get crazy.

I’m not worried about the storm.  I’m not looking forward to losing power, but at least Entergy is camped out at the zoo parking lot.  Perhaps that will give us some priority.  Anyway, good luck to everyone!

The city is obsessed with Gustav.  Or at least the people I’m around.  My office wants me to work from home to ‘practice’.  Being me, I’m not.  This isn’t to say that I’m not paying attention to the Gulf.  I know what’s happening, but it’s too early.  I’m just not concerned yet.  I think Friday afternoon is the first time that we’ll actually know something.  Perhaps I’m just still happy from last night.

I know that I’m kind of grouchy right now.  All I can say is that the last few weeks have taken their toll on me.  I released the big project that I’ve been working on for the last 18 months.  That felt good, especially since it didn’t have any real bugs in it.  Instead of having some much needed downtime, I was thrown immediately into a new project that also had to be released this week.

Let’s just say that I really hate Siggraph.  Every year we have some kind of new feature that needs to be ready for it which practically kills dev.  Then marketing and business development get to go play at the convention and parties, showing off our work.

Anyway, I’m hoping to really separate myself from work and New Orleans this weekend. I know that I haven’t even been that nice to my parents this week.  My weekend might be hectic, but in such a different way.  I’m excited!