Re: What do you do when there's nothing to do?

[Jona Steenbrink <jsteenbrink -at- bluefinrobotics -dot- com>]

Or... Scrabulous?


On Mar 7, 2008, at 11:01 AM, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:

> Sarah L Blake had the strangest request:
>> I'm sure it's happened to us all at some point.  That moment when the
>> hectic work for the last release is just a distant memory, and the
> next
>> release is just a sparkle in R&D's eye.  You've updated all the
>> documentation according to the spec, done that re-indexing you were
>> always intending to get around to, created a new version of the
> training
>> course, read the more useful or interesting of the books and manuals
>> lying around...
>>
>> What do you do next?
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> Um... work feverishly on the other three pending, multi-document
> releases that are currently in your box and do some preliminary
> investigation on the two or three additional ones that are scheduled  
> in
> your pipe, between attending meetings for all the above?
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> Is that what you meant?
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> Kevin
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> list these past two days)
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