{"id":709,"date":"2004-04-13T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/709"},"modified":"2009-02-06T12:57:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T20:57:24","slug":"the-beginning-of-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/709","title":{"rendered":"the beginning of the end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just talked to my supervisor (my initiative) about my project and<br \/>\ntold him what I had recently finished, where I am, and where I was<br \/>\nthinking about going, etc.&nbsp; Recently, I have not talked to him (nor he<br \/>\nto I) about the project for a long time; over a month.&nbsp; Every day, I<br \/>\nfill out progress reports, and he stamps those once he&#8217;s looked at<br \/>\nthem.&nbsp; He&#8217;s been very busy, recently with a promotion and the beginning<br \/>\nof a new fiscal year, so those have not been stamped for over two<br \/>\nmonths.&nbsp; I just wanted to provide him with an update<br \/>\nso as he could adjust my present direction, if he felt appropriate.&nbsp;<br \/>\nWell, it&#8217;s time for me to start making &#8220;<i>lots of very detailed<br \/>\ndocumentation,<\/i>&#8221; apparently.&nbsp; Joy!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Actually, contrary to the stereotype, this programmer doesn&#8217;t really<br \/>\nmind doing documentation.&nbsp; I&#8217;m just a little surprised I got this much<br \/>\ntime to do it!&nbsp; Glad, but surprised, none-the-less.&nbsp; This gives me a<br \/>\nbit more than a month.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll probably need it, too.&nbsp; I try to do<br \/>\ndocumentation in parallel, as that&#8217;s the easiest\/best way, but it&#8217;s<br \/>\nmore orientated for myself.&nbsp; I am told that my supervisor will continue<br \/>\nthis project after I leave, so I have to write for him.&nbsp; It&#8217;s kind of<br \/>\noverwhelming.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t really know where to start.<\/p>\n<p><b><\/p>\n<p>*stares blankly at screen*<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Damn, now that thing that I was in the middle of doing seems like a huge task to finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just talked to my supervisor (my initiative) about my project and told him what I had recently finished, where I am, and where I was thinking about going, etc.&nbsp; Recently, I have not talked to him (nor he to I) about the project for a long time; over a month.&nbsp; Every day, I fill&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/709\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the beginning of the end<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,211],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-japan","tag-ljimport","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jEMb-br","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}