Moving Forward with Low-Priority Work
This evening I did a little work on a few low-priority tasks in the project I'm on. Normally, I wouldn't worry with stuff like this, but a nice guy in the group in Palo Alto really wanted this stuff added to the code, and so I took the time to finish the work I started several weeks ago that he needed.
Normally, I agree with the priorities we have. It keeps my work at a manageable level. But there are times - like this, that I feel kinda bad that I don't have a few more hours in the day/week/month to push a few tangential things forward a bit. Yeah, it's gotten me scolded in the past, but my argument this time is simple - I'm at home, I already did a lot of work for the day on the stuff that is meant to be my high priority, and it was after 5:00 pm.
Basically, I did it on my own time.
Thankfully, it wasn't that hard - took me a few hours, and now it's on a pull request into the main codebase and we should have something ready to test in a day or so. I feel like I've been a "nice guy" today. Makes me feel good.