Saturday, February 05, 2005
Well, what can be said about this week except I’m so glad it’s over.
Little Miss has been to the doctor and her fever finally broke Thursday morning. She’s still not sleeping longer than a couple of hours due to the snot but that’s one thing off the list. LSW is not good however, between me and her mother we’ve convinced her to get next week signed off sick. She needs to recover. The Doctor has taken blood for tests as he thinks she might be depressed.
When I went home from work yesterday, after another 9 hour day, everything was in tatters. Queries on the database were returning Oracle Errors left right and centre and no matter what I tried, nothing worked. So reran the oracle statistics package last thing last night and went home. I came in late today, expecting to be fired but it turned out that the statistics run fixed all of my outstanding problems. Client Two will get their release as planned and that’s another crisis averted.
Scooter and the Dr. are not happy. This project is now a loss maker and that’s caused problems. However, the main issue was performance. That would have had to been tackled at some point anyway.
Even so, I’m shattered myself. I’ve managed to keep a cold at bay due to pain-killers and vitamins. I’m sleeping (kind of) on the sofa downstairs because Little Miss is sharing the Bed with LSW. I know LSW is in worse shape but if I add my troubles as well, then everything is going to collapse. It does feel we are that close to the edge.
The game is on hold, the CV is ready to go and payday is ten days away. It feels we’ve just go to hold on for a little longer.
When I went home from work yesterday, after another 9 hour day, everything was in tatters. Queries on the database were returning Oracle Errors left right and centre and no matter what I tried, nothing worked. So reran the oracle statistics package last thing last night and went home. I came in late today, expecting to be fired but it turned out that the statistics run fixed all of my outstanding problems. Client Two will get their release as planned and that’s another crisis averted.
Scooter and the Dr. are not happy. This project is now a loss maker and that’s caused problems. However, the main issue was performance. That would have had to been tackled at some point anyway.
Even so, I’m shattered myself. I’ve managed to keep a cold at bay due to pain-killers and vitamins. I’m sleeping (kind of) on the sofa downstairs because Little Miss is sharing the Bed with LSW. I know LSW is in worse shape but if I add my troubles as well, then everything is going to collapse. It does feel we are that close to the edge.
The game is on hold, the CV is ready to go and payday is ten days away. It feels we’ve just go to hold on for a little longer.
