Three days long weekend

Took today, Monday, off to make a three days long weekend.

I desperately needed a break.

But I didn't get one.

Worked overtime on all three days, including a 02:42 to 04:51 hours bout.

Because that's when the simulations completed, and if I didn't post-process them and set subsequent cases to run, I would lose simulation time where the server and the workstation just sat idle.

And I couldn't sleep anyway.

Health is a total mess now. Constant headache. Horrible quality of sleep. Regular eye pain. Worst ever hemorrhoids. Emotionally deprived. Drained.

Besides sleep deprivation, I have been in constant ache and discomfort for days now. Could really use a lot of tender loving care.

Took annual leave to rest and relax, to release some stress. Got neither.

Only worse.

Absolute mess.

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累·无奈

累。真的好累。

很想过个什么都不做，就只是休息的周末。真的很想。

拿了下星期一的假，虽然有这个月不拿假就要作废了的缘故，但更因为是累。

假是拿了，但已经知道今天晚餐后依然是要工作，而且很大可能三天长周末也是。

希望不需要三天都要加时工作啦…

我真的好累。

好无奈。

心语细述 |系列|

命贱莫思闲

三月过了，今年已经过了四分之一。

上星期整理了今年至今的加时工作记录，暂时还不错，如果继续这三个月的趋势，今年有望达到加时工作少过一百天的目标。

劳碌命的人，真的不可以这样遐想…

就因为有了那想法，马上就需要连续加时工作了三天。两天周末，和昨天做到近凌晨两点钟那种。

我知错了！求求不用再证明些什么了。

命贱的人，想都不要想。真的。

心语细述 |系列|

New view counter

Since February, the view counter for this blog that I used for many years has gone haywire.

I was hoping it's just a temporary glitch that would be sorted out, but alas, it wasn't.

From early February to early April, it reported negative view count for about twenty days. So the counter is no longer reliable and the view count is totally messed up.

I finally decided I have given it enough time to sort itself out, and since it didn't, I ditched it and changed to another counter from websiteOut (thanks!) yesterday.

So the view count (daily unique visitor) for this year is screwed, I will have to start over with this year being the new baseline. Oh well.

Blogspot does have its own counter though, which I displayed at the bottom of the left menu labelled Total Pageviews. That's Blogspot internal counter and it shows a pretty large number so I guess that must be from the beginning of this blog and most likely is page view instead of daily unique visitor count.

Anyway, let's hope this new counter is reliable.

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生活点滴：选择

煎鸡蛋加上点酱清和胡椒粉，夹在两片面包间，是我从小就吃到大的三文治。

今天早餐，情人老婆仔也是帮我准备了鸡蛋面包三文治，感恩。=)

只是齁，今天用的是那吃起来干巴巴又哽喉咙的麦芽面包。=(

人生短短几十年，何必为难自己吃这么 dry 的面包哦？

午餐后洗盘碗时，我问情人老婆仔：“婆仔，为什么你买健康但不好吃的面包？你知道我比较喜欢不健康但好吃的白面包的吗齁？”

情人老婆仔一往精简的回说：“知道，没有白的了。”

我：“哦…”

结束。都还没有把也喜欢白面包的小瓜拖下水，呵呵！

唉，只好吃几天这很 dry（但比较健康！）的麦芽面包咯…

生活点滴 |系列|

Record!

Not even April yet and I have already completed my tax refund. This has got to be a record for me.

Yes yes, I know there are kiasu people who completed it as soon as the e-filing tool is available and some who already got the refund banked in.

I am not one of those people, I am the slacker extraordinaire, so the norm for me is doing it on the last few days before the end date.

This so un-slacker-like behaviour is due to this being the first time I am filing tax refund with wifey having income, so we decided to try to see whether filing together as one or separately net us higher amount of refund.

Hands down filing separately for our case, by a big margin. Now we know.

And since I have completed the two versions, I just submitted the filed separately version and be done with it.

So ya, 'tax refund completion more than one month before end date' achievement unlocked! =P

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Insecurity

My work involves working with customer to design their system to the best possible within their constraints.

So when I am not assigned to any project that works with the customer, but only assigned to internal projects, naturally I have some misgivings.

Truth is I feel a lot more comfortable not working with customer, because of my introvert and antisocial personality.

But I am not paid a salary to be comfortable, and the team charter is to work with the customer.

So there is sense of unease and insecurity.

Is this the sign of being next in line for the chopping board? That I am going to get axed soon?

Time will tell, and for the time being all I can do is worry myself senselessly.

The anxiety is real.

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