Switching hats
Coding has gone very well for a while, I feel more and more comfortable with the framework I am building.
Late today I’ll start switching hats. I’ll stop implementing backend functionality, have a brief meeting with my partner and hand over more detailed specs for the search front-end - then I’ll prepare for two days of demos, documentation writing and negotiations about future work. This is tight, but I have done it before.
Unfortunately my partner is behind with the front-end. It’s not that complicated, but his children take a lot of time and his girlfriend is about to give birth real soon. I wish them luck, of course - but it’s doubtful if I am physically capable of finishing myself in time. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.
We do have a good track record together - I think this will be alright in the end, too.
Update: hat-switching will happen soon. My partner is ready to take over the code and finish it.
A few more hours of adding new DB-tables and back-end functionality - then I’ll start making slides and practicing my lines instead. I’m working at home today and already talk to myself - it saves time, when people call I just keep talking. 
Greg has started a June monologue. There is a part about re-used code vs homegrown that supports one of my pet beliefs: when coding, naming things is an act of communication. It should never just happen.
Hal, Alwin and everyone else appear very busy too. Someone recently mailed me and said it would soon be summer - but it IS summer already, we are just too busy to notice.