What a Day
What a day. What a day. What a day.
Today my day started at 2 am and will be ending
right after I finish this entry (11 pm). It started out with my supervising the
updating of the Privacy Policy for my company's web sites. Sounds easy right?
We when your web sites is in the thousands of pages and make millions of dollars
people get a bit grumpy when they are not up and running
properly.
Well this upgrade didn't go
as well as we would have liked and it did go well for the oldest reason in the
world, poor planning. There were lots of assumption by some people as to what
other people would do. It's not that people wouldn't have done what was
required. If anyone would have asked them to do it they would have been happy
to. Sigh... This part lasted from 2 am to 7 am.
Then I ate breakfast, showered,
shaved, brushed my teeth, got my son ready for school and went to work. My wife
had to take my son to the bus
stop.
During the next part of my day I
had to deal with ensuring that someone was trained to take on the duties of a
person that we are going to let go at the end of the month. Do you know how fun
it is to get someone to train the person that will be doing their job in the
future? Well let me tell you it is not all that much fun. This part lasted
from 9 am to around 11 am.
I then got
to go to a parent teachers conference because my son hasn't been doing his
homework for several weeks because one of his teachers accused him of "Goofing
off"! When I was a kid I had teachers who would break a yard stick over my head
(I sound like my father, "I had to walk 10 miles in the snow to get to school".
He lived in Florida!) What I had to do was convince a bunch of teachers that
they should really give my son special treatment because... well because! I
managed it but now my son has to earn what I talked them into giving him.
Sigh... Oh yea, that was my lunch
break.
Then from 2 pm - 7 pm I had to
get all of the things that other people broke during the morning upgrade fixed.
Not real hard but we had a half dozen other people wanting help as well! Then
the last part of this portion I got to write a report telling everything that
went wrong and what we wanted to do to fix it so it wouldn't happen
again.
I came home fixed my self a tv
dinner and tried to explain to my son why he was failing 3 out of 4 subjects and
what he had to do if he wants to fix it. He promptly didn't do anything else
for the rest of the evening. It would so have helped him with his teachers if
he would have done at least one of his assignments.
Sigh...
So I did the dishes and now I'm
doing this. After this day you might ask why are you typing on a computer? Why
don't you go to bed? To that I would answer, "OK I
will"
Good Night
Moon
Posted: Thu - November 6, 2003 at 10:23 PM