Fun and Games at work

So two months ago, our schedule was built based on the availability of a function on the customer's modems.

Then we find that that feature is not available. The customer says "Sure its there, you're testing wrong".

We demonstrate that we're testing fine. The customer sets up a meeting with their supplier.

The supplier says, "Uh, yeah, our next release of the firmware will have that feature - check with your customer cause we can't give it to you."

We get the firmware update today from the customer, and its for a modem that we don't have on our supported modem list.

We ask the customer for one of those modems to test on. They say we can't have one.

Meanwhile, the clock is ticking and we rework the schedule. Fun, no?

Swim practice was good last night. We did 2300 meters in the hour:
300 warmup
4*50 crawl
4*100 IM
100 easy
5*200 stroke/crawl
100 easy
2*50 sprint
100 cooldown

On the first of the 2 sprints, I was trying to beat Heinrich, this tall lanky guy. I shoved so hard off the wall I got a serious cramp in my right leg. One of the guys heard me yell underwater when it happened. Its feeling much better today, but I know its still there.

Steely grey day outside, and while I know Texas is having a freeze as well, I'm missing my hottub bitterly.