Snow.  Ugh.  Must have been 12 inches out there and the plows had left a thick, icy, heavy layer at the top of our driveway, which is a miserable hill, as any of you who have seen it can attest.  It took me a couple of hours to clear the top near the street and I was about ready to fall over after.  Fortunately, the guy who plows our driveway had ( Read more... )

Things are looking good.
- It's Friday.  Work Hell is almost done!  Yay!
- I finished the character creation portion of the 7 Virtues database last night.  It accurately tracks race expenditure, headers (including pre-reqs and exclusions), skills (same as headers *and* the wonky 2:1 CP expenditure ratio for core skills).  Now all I have to do is get ( Read more... )

Monique has a problem at work.  She's due to roll out a new program to one of the divisions she works with this week in MD.  This is the workflow database that I worked on for a year and a half until this past January when they hired a full time developer.  He's done a great job, but due to medical reasons he missed a fair amount of time just ( Read more... )

Today will be a new test for me.  I have resolved not to do these ridiculous hours trying to pull off two 40 hour a week jobs at one time.  My boss agrees with me and I'm feeling really good about saying 'no'.  We'll see if I can hold on to that.  Anyone wanting to send along thoughts of strength and resolve, feel free.  I can use all I can get.  " ( Read more... )

I worked a lot this weekend on this database project for United Health.  I was there until about 8:00 Saturday night and about 6:30 last night.  I lost a good 6 hours to what appeared to be a design flaw.  Turned out it was crud in the sample data that should never happen in real life.  The bright side is that there's now all sorts of error ( Read more... )

I've been pushing really hard for a couple of weeks at work.  The earliest I've gotten out of work has been 6:30.  That means my short days have been 11 1/2 hours, though in all fairness I did get out of work Friday at 5:30 to beat Monique home.  I wanted to make sure I had time to finish cleaning the house before she got back from her two week ( Read more... )

Are you kidding?  No way!.   It's been done by everyone else.  I want to write about something really exciting, like the weekend I just had ( Read more... )

I was pretty excited Friday morning.  I beat some amazing probabilities and got the answer I wanted from my analysis of some data.  I won't go into the details except to say that my findings would save my lead programmer and my favorite consultant hours and hours of work.  I was ecstatic.  I don't think my lead programmer understood enough of what ( Read more... )

The weekend was both fairly enjoyable and productive, an unusual combination ( Read more... )

Damn, this got a lot longer than I originally thought, so I'll put it behind cuts.

( Weekend )