Wednesday, the big excitement was what seemed like a never-ending raft of trouble tickets, a couple of which had absolutely nothing to do with us. Sure, something sourced from http://example.com/stuff/ may be giving a “500 Internal Server Error” for everybody. This doesn’t mean that I can fix it, even if ten people are all yelling [...]

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Wednesday had fairly normal work stuff. Except for the semi-panicked attempts to learn as much as possible about the huge complex system that we’ll all have to rewrite and maintain in roughly 2 months. That’s going to lead to far too much work until February, for sure. And maybe beyond that. Not much that can [...]

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Tuesday was a little less terrible than Monday, mostly because we’d already heard enough bad news on Monday. Also, Aaron was back, even though he wasn’t feeling 100%. This is mostly because various regulations won’t let him get paid for the several weeks he’ll be taking off soon unless he goes in to work for [...]

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Thanksgiving week was pretty relaxing, since I was on vacation. And of course, I learned that Chris has found another job, and his last day is Friday. This is slightly inconvenient as he’s been here for a long time, and he was working on a really important project. Which he doesn’t have time to finish [...]

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Monday: Pretty normal at work, though I spent a fairly long time talking about basic Linux system administration to another guy from a different section. I also heard from Bill—he said that he quit his new job and returned to his old job mostly because “After a couple of weeks there, I knew I wasn’t [...]

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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 [...]

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Arr, ye scurvy dogs, it be Talk Like A Pirate Day! Set back, we’ll be keelhaulin’ the politicians and the bankers momentarily. Not that much actually happened on Monday, though. I found a huge mess of data in the master DB that isn’t being used and doesn’t need to be there, so getting rid of [...]

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Friday: heard that a couple of the senior people upstairs have had it with the complete idiocy from corporate, and are leaving for greener pastures. This is great for them. This will be a total pain for those of us who are left. So this wasn’t particularly fun or exciting. No idea how much fallout [...]

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Wednesday was a lot more annoying than it should’ve been. A third-party vendor ran a DROP DATABASE on the main database we’re replicating, and that broke a bunch of our stuff. What really made me feel good was the way a “tech” said, “Oh yeah, there’s some instability with the system, so errors build up, [...]

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Monday. Heck. It seemed like a long string of relatively minor requests, punctuated by more complex and time-consuming stuff. And it all mostly worked. Until I got called after I’d finished dinner. Someone somewhere had approved a project/something that was using a bunch of code that was never designed to do what they wanted it [...]

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