Worn Out, But Still Kicking

So the last couple of weeks have been a bit exhausting...not so much in the physical sense, but more in the intellectual. Two weeks ago, I spent a couple of days generating documentation for the very big project I've been on at work. Those 2-3 days saw about 250 pages of documentation get generated. By the end of that week, my brain was mush and I just power-lounged all weekend.

Last week saw refinements to those 250 pages, as well as drills on those documents to prove the procedures worked. This included "no prior knowledge" testing by one of my colleagues who knew little of the framework and none of the specifics of the process I had documented. Happily, the documents withstood such outsider testing, despite a few glitches which are not show-stoppers and are already places I had noted for future improvement. All in all a big win for me, despite another mentally strenuous week...the weekend was another spate of power-lounging except for driving my best friend back to his house in Lexington after he was stranded here by circumstance.

So begins what should be the final week of testing for my process. Today should see the final tests done. Then documenting the test results. Followed shortly by process and results review by management and auditors. So hopefully by end of week my huge multi-month project will be over. And maybe I'll have some brain power to spare on some other projects or aspects of my life.