As you may recall, my work gets crazy busy twice a year, in March/April and September/October, due to the convergence of my two annual responsibilities with my various quarterly responsibilities. This spring was especially hellish because, on top of the things I always have to do in the spring, I also unexpectedly had to create a new application that the top brass insisted had to be completed, and then never published. Well, this fall, they suddenly decided that they now needed it to be published, with massive changes, so they again buried me with unexpected work at the height of my expected work.
I just finished the last of my scheduled responsibilities, and I received an award for the project that buried me in both the spring and the fall. (I received the same award last year, so I've gotten an award both years that I've been in my current job.)
That means that I don't have any huge projects until March. There are a lot of things that I know need to be done, which I'm doing on my own initiative -- my employer wouldn't know that the work needs to be done if I didn't say so -- but at least there's no deadline on any of that.
So, I finally have my life back. When I don't have to kill myself at work, I have way more time and mental energy to work on my own projects, such as this mod. I have three Cookie Jar scenes that are an image or two away from completion, so Beta60 is in progress again.