So – being on-call this week is making me grumpy already.
Yesterday’s maintenance window work was to be done by one of my team members – he volunteered because he had to work anyway on something similar. He didn’t show until nearly three hours after the scheduled time – I got a call at 2h30 after and had to cut my evening short to deal with it, but by the time I got to work, he’d shown up. Lose.
Today, the winds blew to the north, and instead of Mary Poppins wandering in (or out), we got the Indians fire blowing over us. That’s deeply unnerving, and confirms to me that the reason I constantly feel like I’ve been eating hair the last week is that I’m inhaling a lot of ash. This fire makes me sad.
Today, we’re preparing for a disaster recovery test. I had to work instead of go to game. That’s okay, stuff like this happens. Everyone did their final signoffs – all the apps are set up right, everything’s ready, according to the folks on the phone. Then half an hour later I get a call from one of the guys on the line – turns out that connectivity was fine for one app, but it was returning errors for every query. Lovely. His response? “Hey, come in early tomorrow so you can figure out what’s up.” Um. I don’t know what’s wrong with your data. If I came in it’d be a whole bunch of ‘yes, this data source is correct. No, there’re no other moving parts.’
*sigh* So I’m grouchy and my mouth tastes like used tree. Is can be Polycon yet?
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