Feeling the Pressure

The pressure is building towards going live in Scotland. I've been doing masses of work under the bonnet in respect to rewriting the code more elegantly and efficiently (with the wonderful benefit of hindsight), and these will be our first clients to use the application in its shiny new 'go faster' form. There is always a lot of last-minute debugging and configuration and I've been right in the middle of that today. As ever, too much to do and not enough time to do it in.

It was the last Under 17s league match of the season tonight, at Adel, and with so many of the lads on holiday No.2 son was persuaded out of his early retirement to play. I was late leaving the office, missed the train, and enjoyed a very fast ride out to Adel in exactly 40 minutes. Just what I needed. It was beautifully balmy, an evening made for watching cricket indeed. We won the game fairly comfortably (in the end) with No.1 son getting out cheaply but taking a couple of good wickets, and No.2 son taking a possibly match-winning catch on the boundary off a skier when Adel's No.3 was on 49 and threatening to take the game away from us single-handed. The game didn't finish until 9.30pm and I had forgotten that the nights are beginning to close in quite quickly now. I had an even more rapid return home, in time-trial mode (reminding myself why I don't do time trials!), in 36 mins. With my computer not working and having forgotten to charge up the Garmin, I'm intrigued to know what speed that was, but it was good for my head to have a real blast, before another late night working.