Well, I couldn't let Leap day pass without posting something. This'll probably be a short entry, though, since it's getting late.

I think I mentioned a while back that my boss was retiring. Friday was his last day. It was tough saying goodbye - even though we've worked together for less than a year, he's been a terrific mentor to me - he taught me a bunch about technical writing. He was a great manager, too. It's going to be difficult to find someone to fill his shoes.

We've got a couple more people in the department who will be leaving later in the year, so we're starting in on this mad scramble to make sure that we've got people who can take over their roles. The good news is that I'm getting shuffled into some more interesting and challenging assignments. The bad news is that the next couple of months are going to be a bit of a time management challenge: I've got to juggle about 4 different projects at once. It's do-able, but I'm still getting into the groove on some of them, and it's making me nervous.

So, I adopted a classic response to stress this weekend: I ran errands and played on the PlayStation 2 with fixed concentration, and otherwise did absolutely nothing useful or productive. Go me.

And now I really need to go to bed.