tread lightly - depressed mode
I can say that last night was one of the most intense, harrassing shift I have ever had. Incidents kept pouring nonstop. I was handling all issues, communcation emails, heavy duty plan and answering inquiries on top of that. It broke me down. The frustration and the pressure brought me to tears. It shocked my system into depression. The 9-hour shift turned to 12, and I hadn't had sleep for 24 hours. There were 100 tickets in the queue during morning handover and a different set of 100 tickets in the queue during the afternoon handover. At least my Outlook was cooperating while I was on night shift - it stayed connected for the most part of the shift while I was on the P&G network (though in the afternoon and until now the connection is nonexistent again but at least my shift was over then). Even my application cooperated, it ran fast to my pleasant surprise. Dunno if it had something to do with the deployment instance being locked, thus less concurrent processes running at the time. I'll leave the investigation and conclusions to the better and more capable hands of our DBAs. Anyway I was drained when I got to bed, and fell asleep for four hours before I had to wake up for a brief meeting. I'll catch up on sleep tonight. And I hope this depression is nothing that a good night's sleep can't cure. What a way to spend the day before my birthday.
I accept hugs and prayers and jokes to cheer me up...and maybe chocolates as well.