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Luck of the calendar and I have on-call for Thanksgiving. It’s not a holiday in Europe or the Far East. I’ve been logged in and working since 9am. Whee.

I just hope it stays quiet.

I just got back from a few days off, arrived at JFK, and now I turn around and fly out for work, leaving from LGA. This is not how I like to plan these things but I have meetings tomorrow and the idea of a 6am flight didn’t sound so good. I’ll catch up on the 1000+ backlog of work email over the next couple of days.

I’m on my second day in the new cubicle in Brooklyn. So far, so good. My cube is about a third smaller and the floor is larger but it shaves twenty minutes off my commute. I go into the Manhattan office for meetings one day per week and the engineering teams generally work together via email so it doesn’t feel much different.

Quite the mess to follow-up on today. Two teams involved in a powerdown did not communicate, or miscommunicated, procedures. That mistake inflicted an NY-wide outage on us. Not good.

I’m amazed that before I got to the office (I was sick yesterday) the feedback began coming in. Some of the attendees told their colleagues on the other side of the globe and those folks asked for copies of the material and want to know when I would present it to them. On the other hand, we saw a couple of the people who attended, who are experienced and should know better, go off half-cocked in email today. I might have been informative, and even entertaining, but if it is not translated into practice it was a waste of eight weeks development time and a week of teaching.