what a kick in the nuts

today at lunch i find out that the last feature that i was on will not be purchased by a single customer. even worse was that we warned management that no one would buy it with the functionality that we stripped out of it to meet the dates. this is the project that i gave up the last year's worth of nights and weekends so that we could finish on time and have a killer product. i had a buddy of mine in project management run my timesheet and over the course of the 14 months on this project, i worked an additional 9 man-months. it made me feel kind of sick when i was told that all that work was pretty much for nothing.

ok, enough bitching.
apparently, i've not learned my lesson, since last night, i got out of work around 1:30am (with a break for food and 20 minutes of a very scary illinois game). i get home and am whupped so i climb into bed and pass out. 2 hours later, i wake up. and i mean i'm WIDE awake. was it my alarm? no. passing snow plow? no. some fat man in a sleigh letting his reindeer shit all over my roof? no. it was my stomach. i was hungry. and not just hungry...ethiopian hungry. and thus marks the beginning of running season.

and now it's time for dinner!