What a Week!

As you may have seen in Laura's blog, it was another whirlwind week at LM. I was given approval to start working on a new project on Monday. Originally when we started trying to get the funding to do it, we were told that it needed to be complete by mid-January. However, with the approval came news that they needed it "expedited" a little bit...it turns out that a "little bit" meant by the weekend. So, I worked basically around the clock trying to get it finished. I did get it finished, but the kicker is that on Friday afternoon, I got a call (after I was already finished, mind you) saying that they no longer needed it. WHAT!? I was less than pleased. As if that weren't enough, a totally separate problem popped up and I ended up putting in several more hours over the weekend. I don't know what my total was - somewhere in the mid-80's - but it was exhausting. I don't know how some people do that every week...I struggled to do it just this once.

On a separate note, we finally received our NOVA awards from Lockheed this week (the one we won over the summer for all the work we did last November). Anyways, thought you might be interested to see the excerpt from the write-up that was submitted:

"For responding to a premature hardware failure in a vital national asset by precisely analyzing the problem and developing and installing a software solution that transformed the platform from 'end of life' to '100 percent Mission Success'."