Saturday, May 17, 2008

• It feels like a lot more than three days have gone by since I last posted.  It has been a week to forget, work-wise. 

  It started last weekend.  For once, I wasn't on call, but I had to get involved anyway.  Long, long, long story as short as possible:  A vendor had a failure Saturday night, took them 'til Sunday night to fix it.  Not so bad, since that was all nonbusiness hours.  Monday we were good.  Tuesday morning, we're back down.  We scramble to bypass the problem.  Tuesday night, it's back up, no, wait, it's back down.  Wednesday morning, it's back up, but I'm not confident that we should get off our bypass method.  Major blow-out with boss about it (our first in the eight-plus years I've been there).  End up partially going off the bypass late Wednesday.  Decide, after much debate, to move to new platform (a project which had been in the works for several months), a bit early.  Means we won't do quite as extensive testing as we would prefer, but expect it to be more stable than current system.  Second blow-out with boss about this, as boss will be out of town when move occurs. 

  Go to Giants game Wednesday night; train gets delayed, miss first inning; it's a special event night, so stadium is full of non-fans, who are busy being annoying to actual fans; Giants lose; get home around 11:00pm; work for 30 minutes or so then try to get some sleep. 

  Go to work at 7:00am Thursday.  Start move to new system late Thursday afternoon, which brings system down for longer than we would have liked, but up and running satisfactorily within a couple of hours, and almost perfectly by 8:30 or so.  Work until 9:15, go home, work for another hour, try to get some sleep.  Just to spice things up, we're having a heat wave and the house is uncomfortably hot, making it very difficult to sleep. 

  Get to work at 7:15am today.  Finish moving off bypass and on to new system.  Troubleshoot and correct variety of problems.  Everything seems to be running properly.  Cross fingers and finally leave office at 5:00.  So far, so good this evening. 

  And another annoyance I didn't need this week:  The MySpace Truth Box.  The equivalent of saying "Hey, here's a Slam Book page with my name on it.  Posted right on my own site.  For everyone, including me, to see. Oh, and say anything you want, 'cause it's anonymous."  The Little Missy has a private MySpace page, where only people she "approves" can visit.  So these anonymous comments are from people she thinks (thought) were her friends.  She had some not-so-nice comments; nothing truly vulgar or nasty, but enough to upset her.  I made her take it down. 

  And I'm out.   

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