Work Goodness

Work has slowed
down finally.  I've been going none stop since returning from leave in March.  However, I'm guessing this is only a temporary pause as we have several bids out and we should win the majority of them.  One proposal in particular will change our division dramatically.  We could double in size (headcount and facilities) and quadruple our revenue.  It will probably make the news if we win but I won't be able to point it out on here because that would bust my employer's anonymity.

The cool part
is that 'if' we get it then I'll have to build two new data centers ...  and I love that!  That's my bread and butter right there.  I really wanted to build in Austin and Reno but HR couldn't make the numbers work in those cities.  We settled on Oklahoma City and Boise.  That was 6 months ago so by the time it comes to signing leases and racking servers then the actual cities could change 16 more times.

Of course
we missed an opportunity recently because we underbid the project - which makes the customer think we don't know what we are doing.  We freaking underbid it because our director wanted to take an unreasonably austere view of the technology requirements.  Grrrr