Lots of stuff going on. The picture is because Aaron said he was “quitting caffeine cold turkey”, and not quite succeeding.
Tuesday: relatively normal at work, and there was trivia afterwards. Saw almost everybody (minus Nathan and Trevor) and heard all the stuff about what’s been going on. Stephanie’s apparently planning some sort of charity concert at her work, and trying to find musicians and herd them. Zach believes that there will never be a single-payer health care system in the USA, no matter how good of an idea it might be. Nobody knows where or when the Halloween thing is going to be just yet.
Wednesday: Started out with a bang as a stupid helpdesk ticket showed up at 5:58am. Then as I was fixing that, I saw some other stupid things happening with the database. It looked annoying, but not critical, so I took a shower and made lunch so that I could get on the bus. While I was on the bus, it went critical, so one of my co-workers disabled something. So when I got in to the office, I got a chorus of “OH NOES EVERYTHING ARE BROKEN FIX IT FIX IT!!!1!” from people. Even though I hadn’t had anything to do with whatever caused the problem in the first place. So I had to find the cellphone# for the co-worker who’d made the change, then tell the people who were annoyed to call him, not me, because I had no idea of what he’d changed. That pile of hassle ate most of the morning.
After that, I tried to track down a problem that’d been bugging us for a while. Machines 1 and 2 were both in VLAN 21. They couldn’t see each other, even though they really should’ve been able to. After far too many phone calls to too many people, a guy in Systems finally said, “Oh! All of the reporting tools say machine 2 is in VLAN 21. However, it’s really in VLAN 33. Um. Let’s fix that.” After they did that, it all started working, which was a big relief.
Late that afternoon, I got a really important change request that had to be done ASAP. “I can start this, and I can get this totally done tomorrow morning. OK?” They said that was OK.
At least Stephanie, Steve, and I got to get pizza and wings after work. That didn’t quite make up for it, but it was still fun. Steve’s been putting in a lot of hours there thanks to a recent software release, but they’ve been buying dinner for all the employees if they have to stay late. We had Rock Band 3, but we stopped at 8:40 instead of 9:00.
Thursday: Much less annoying, mostly. I got another really important change request right as I walked in the door which said, “Remember what we wanted yesterday? We actually want something totally different from that.” I was glad I’d only done about half the work on it, because I didn’t have as much to throw out. And after I finished that and produced some test data, they said, “Oh! We actually want something different from what we said the first two times!” sigh. At least they were eventually happy with it all, which is what really counts.