Rough day

We kind of had a 'come to jesus' meeting with the deployment manager on the project today, cause he's asked us to build basically without requirements. Its a bit tricky, as I know from the Motive side we really shouldn't do it that way, but on behalf of the manager, I know that the Germans/manager are more concerned with meeting dates than with the correctness/usefullness of the product.

A good example of that occured when we left the building today. The guards stopped us and had to do a 'bag inspection' cause they turned on the light to stop us. They opened 1 bag, peeked in, and let us go. It wasn't that they really had to check all the bags for hardware walking out of the building; it was that a video camera had recorded the stop, and as a result they had to check a bag on camera, even if it was superficial. That's what they were going to be evaluated on - if they stopped someone, they should do the check. The check didn't have to be meaningful, but it had to occur.

Its been a frustrating week all around. I didn't get to get to the pool other than Tuesday. Will have to go Sat/Sunday in Munich.

Charles bough his ticket to come over for Thanksgiving. I'm going to email the dutch part of our crew & see if they're staying in the same area as we are again. That will be a fun weekend.

Ballot got off in the mail this morning. Tomorrow afternoon Marcel & I fly back to Munich. I've really got to do expenses saturday as well. ugh.