I call the few business days between Christmas and New Year the "Holiday Hump", kind of like people call Wednesday the "Hump Day". We're in the midst of the holiday hump here. A long Christmas weekend is out of the way, but I still have the in-laws descending on my house this weekend, and whatever we end up doing on new year's eve.

I have neglected this blog, and I'm considering making it my new year's resolution. I'm still really into reading various blogs, even if the RSS feeds I subscribe to have changed over time. I still enjoy reading Joel Spolsky, Jeff Atwood, Leon Bambrick, K. Scott Allen, and others, but those are the first that came to mind.

I suppose I started this blog because I wanted to be able to contribute to the community like these other people have inspired me, but I've found that writing doesn't come as easily to me as I'd hoped. Also, I realized that blogging is life for some people and it's just a supplement for me. I still think I have things to contribute from time to time, but I also have been working on such mundane things lately that nothing has come up.

It will be really interesting to see what pops up once the current project I'm working on is up, and into the new year. This project is due the first week of January, but we'll see about that. I was complete with code, had the design documents updated, had started on a user guide and had my one resource doing unit testing and working on example configurations when I was blindsided on Friday morning. I should have seen it coming, but there has been totally new functionality added to the requirements. Requirements being a non-existent document. I'm not really upset about the change of scope because I've had to deal with it plenty of times in the past, but I'm not sure what will happen if I don't meet the deadline. Things are so disorganized here that I really have no idea.

Holiday hump, project hump (almost), and unsure about what the new year will bring. In the face of all of this uncertainty, I'm still blessed with a loving family and I still love what I do. Maybe I don't need any new year's resolutions after all.

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