If It Is The Weekend Why Am I Working?

Because I have too damn much to do, evidently.  Vacation recap blogging will continue, hopefully this weekend, once I get some work done.  I'm going to try to limit myself to no more than a half day today.  I have way too much to do and no end in sight.  The problem isn't only that I'm on 16 projects at one time but they are all pretty much in the same phase as well so instead of the work being staggered I have something like 10 technical designs and 6 solutions to code by the end of November.  That seems like a lot of time to get it done until you look at the estimates showing that each tech design is 60-80 hours of work (or more) and the code is estimated at something like 120 hours each.  Then it becomes clear that I'm allocated for something like 1300 hours worth of work over the next 6 weeks.  No, I don't know how I'm going to get it all done either.  The only bright spot is that our estimating sucks and I can usually get things done in about half the time they were estimated to take.  That still leaves me with 650 hours worth of work to do when 6 weeks is only 225 man hours.  I may be known at work for pulling off miracles but I think this one is beyond me. 

I've already talked to my boss about it.  Unfortunately the other people on my team who would normally take some of the burden are just as over-allocated as I am.  Our new guy doesn't start until January.  And having someone from one of the other teams help us out isn't really much of a help because it will take us longer to get them up to speed than it will for us to just do it ourselves.  I've given head's up to the project and resource managers so they have fair warning that some of this stuff is going to have to go to the back burner.  No one likes having their projects pushed to a later date but without additional (trained!) resources there's really no other choice.  

So part of today is to get a couple of small things out of the way as well as sitting down with a calendar and my task list to plan out the next several weeks.  I refuse to give up going to the gym 2-3 times a week or to miss Thursday yoga class.  That means that I'm going to have to get into the office earlier so I can work 9.5-10 hours and still get down to the gym by 6:00 (5:15 on Thursday).  It also means that I will likely be doing at least four hours from home on the weekends for a while. 

I need a clone.  Or an evil twin.