hanging in there..

the last one week or so had been a minor version of hell on earth.

My current work assignment had me teamed up with one of the smartest engineers in my department - and we were in charge of migrating our product from platform A to platform B.

Being teamed up with him was both a delightful and a heart rending experience: I had learned lots in that time, but I truly realized the inner limits of my dumbness. It was a very humbling experience.

We were hoping (i was praying hard actually) that we would be able to get all the work done before he went on vacation - but this did not exactly happen. In fact, due to server issues, lots of work were left undone even as he left for vacation.

guess who has to try to figure out how to carry on?

It was not a problem of donning my super-hero tights. It was rather tough to deal with the stress (though not impossible). The problem was that I was already rather overworked and feeling the strain.. and manOhManOhMan - he left big shoes that are hard to fill and even harder to walk in.

.. so far, so good. approximately 1.5 more weeks to his return. So far, in his absence, we have encountered all the possible combinations scary situations (the type that makes you want run to the toilet to throw up). However, these were those which we had previously encountered while he was here (except that now, I have to solve them myself).

.. I'm now left with a nagging question: having experienced all that I did for the last 1.5 weeks, are the next 1.5 weeks reserved for some new scarier problems?