Awake.

There is something inherently depressing about starting your last week at a job, no matter how much you've been aching to leave and go find a project somewhere else that doesn't quite have the same stink of doomed about it.

Yeah, I think its doomed. I haven't said much about that here on my blog while I've been working there, as I didn't want to say or do anything that could potentially make a bad situation worse, but there doesn't seem to be as much reason to hold back now.  Now, as in most projects, there is a kernel of a good idea and some potential good that can come out of this project, but seriously at this point, if they ditched about 4 levels of managers and hired a systems architect and a refactoring guru, I think they'd still miss their ship date by a good 6 months, but they'd actually have something to show for it in the end.

Ah, well, gotta get ready to work -- the Titanic needs to have its decks all shiny and clean for its date with the iceberg.

Its settled.

I've bought my plane ticket. I'll be flying home on Wednesday the 12th. That gives me the Monday and Tuesday to do stuff between my contract ending and me going home. One of those days I'll be visiting the Google Campus, since I met someone at the Overcoming Bias / Singularity Summit Dinner that invited me over for a tour.

So, in just over a week, I'll be in the city I love again.