Random Whinging

Hello to flist. *waves* Just wanted to quickly post and say that I have not dropped off the face of the earth. I followed a perfectly dreadful week with a busy weekend, and as a result, I'm at about skip 750 on my flist.


Last weekend I managed to corrupt the database in which I keep my huge budget project. On Monday afternoon I learned that none of the data was recoverable. The nightly backup made by our IT department had been failing before they got to my file for about two week, resulting in a loss of almost all of my three weeks of work.

I worked my tail off and managed to reinput nearly all the data I'd lost by Wednesday night. Then the database failed again. On Thursday morning, there was a flurry of activity while my boss called the president of the company that supports the planning software and they got their development people involved, etc. They were able to extract my data and load it into a new database, but they didn't get it to me until 4pm on Thursday afternoon. I then worked until 4:30 Friday morning trying to get enough done so that I wouldn't have to cancel my Friday meetings with the Big Important People. Alas, the meetings were cancelled and I'm still not done. I'm now backing up my new database about every hour.

Everyone has been pretty understanding about the technological glitch, but I'm really disappointed. It's the first budget I've done for this company and I wanted to make a better impression than this.




Had my 25th high school reunion this weekend. It was really quite fun. Hubby and I graduated in the same class, so I was able to bring my spouse and not have to worry that he wouldn't know anyone. On Friday night we went to a party thrown by a group of friends who were boycotting the official events because they were too expensive ($50/person didn't seem that unreasonable to me). I've seen most of them since high school, but probably not for five years. Then it was off to the official event which was held at a local bar. Ended up staying out until 1:15, and we would have stayed longer had the in-laws not been babysitting.

On Saturday I went to a party for a group of us that were on the dance line together, and then the family picnic (which Hubby and kids decided to boycott at the last minute without telling me). The main event was last night and there were probably about 175 people there, most of them classmates rather than spouses. The thing I found most astonishing were the number of classmates who had a huge are range between their oldest and youngest kids. Most of them were due to having children from a first marriage and then again from a second marriage, but not all of them. And there were an astounding number of people who had four or more kids. And some classmates are still having babies at age 43. We have one classmate who is a convicted murderer, and several successful actors. It was really very interesting to see what everyone is up to.

And one of my friends put her home movies on DVD which happen to include lots of shots of Hubby as well as my graduation ceremony. With 375 people in the class, they didn't catch everyone's name being read, but they caught mine, which was fun. And there is a tiny cameo of my mom and dad which was fun too.


Now it's back to work for the rest of the night. With any luck, we've solved the technical issues and my life will be much better next week.