Had another 2-hr meeting with engineering from 11-1. I think I've previously complained about two-hour meetings and how much I hate them. But why do they insist on putting this thing right during lunch? Gives me a major Grump.
Also, Grumpy and related.... A long time ago, I think in the Tech thread, I mentioned this project for engineering that needed a database solution but we were going to have to try to do it just with software products. We are on the home stretch of this thing, so close we can all taste it, but we ran into two roadblocks in this meeting that's putting a damper on everything.
It's like this software is designed to do most of what we need it to do, if you're creative enough to use it in ways that it probably wasn't designed for....but also designed to thwart you in every way from getting that last 5-10% just how you want it. More grumpy.
If we pull this off I'll consider it a big win for our department and it might even make the happy thread. The Industrial Engineering prof that brought this to us and is heading it up on their end asked us in the last meeting if he thought we could present this elsewhere to show what they've done (and what we've done). One of my co-workers told him he could present whatever he wanted, she was going to hide under a rock and forget any of this ever happened. She's pulled a lot more weight on this project than me, and is likely more burnt out on it. I guess I'm offering a grumpy paragraph on her behalf.
