Upgrades ...

I ordered a new phone from Sprint. I was able to get on their SERO employee discount plan, $30 a month for 500 min. with unlimited text and data. Seeing as data is included I figured it would be a good time to get an internet capable phone. I didn't like the Treo's or BlackBerries with the face mounted keyboards, to bulky when using as a phone and too narrow when using the keyboard. That's just me though plenty of folks rave about them.

I'm getting more involved with the project I'm on at work. Previously they had me working on the documentation (which I had the most previous experience with out of anyone on the team), but now I'm getting more involved with the testing and data analysis. Our project lead has a 'deal' with us, if we don't mind doing more of the 'hard work' he'll go to all the meeting for us. I like this plan a lot. Most of friends in the department complain about the sheer number of meetings that take place and how they stay late just to get the actual work done. Aside from that it strikes me as the way things should be done. One person is in charge and is knowledgeable about all the aspects of the project, because he is the one to attend the meetings and delegates the sundry action items to the rest of the team. He knows who is responsible for what and he is responsible for reporting the information to the other groups who may need it; thus he also knows what has been communicated and by whom. All in all I think it cuts down on the "well wasn't so-and-so supposed to be doing that" and the "didn't so-and-so get in touch with you about how to proceed". Of course it leaves essentially zero time for the project lead to be an engineer, which I think is why most project leads don't go down this path ... they want to still be engineers.

J