Condo girl takes a break

So........ what makes condo girl take a break you ask???? Dental work. When I was in South Carolina I broke a tooth. I was lucky it didn't crack down to the nerve. (thank you Jesus). So I dodged the bullet of the 'root canal'. But today was step 1 in getting a crown. My poor little tooth has been ground upon, the gum tissue all around it is very sad and sore. I loved the nitrous oxide. Its a relaxing little trip while you're under. Too bad you can't take a tank home until the tylenol kicks in. All the funny things you think to say you can't because the dentist is working in your mouth.

So...... tonight I created a new recipe and added it to 'sparkpeople'. I got a bunch of great emails and pictures from Ha-Min. It looks like they came on Sunday - not sure why I didn't see them. Oh well, she sure seems like a happy girl. I can't wait to meet her in person.

Today as I was driving to the dentist I realized how smart it was and how much more relaxing to allow time for the drive. When I scheduled the appointment in my work calendar I gave myself driving time. I always cut it too close - but today I didn't. It was so much less stressful. Then when I came home and my tooth hurt, even though I kind of thought I should go out and do more weeding, I took a nap to let my mouth get unnumb and let the tylenol kick in because my poor tooth was throbbing. Then I made dinner and continued with laundry. How much less stressful then working outside until 9, making dinner and doing laundry afterwards. Then I realized - who asks all these things of me. Okay - that'd be 'ME'! So........ the weeds will be there tomorrow.

glad this week is over

What a miserable week this has been. Its pretty bad when you have to cheer yourself up by saying, well....... nobody died.... Anyway, we moved a huge project into production after 2 years of very hard troubleshooting and on and off work. I say on and off because we have so many other projects, this is the project that always got put off. Finally, we started running one line of business (our writing of homeowners insurance) into production under this new version of software. Someone in the company made a huge mistake back in 1997 to basically rewrite the source code to pull off all kinds of pretty things. Sadly this prevented us from being able to upgrade........ ever since. Duh - this is programming 101. Is your code portable, upgradeable, migratable??????....blah blah blah.

So any way, after a 16 hour day at work we migrated to production successfully. There were still problems. We worked through them. None of them were actually that big when you consider the immensity of the project. All records were retrievable in production. All data was sound. There were a few duplicate records to contend with in one view, but that had been there since the code was running in development. Hello.......that's why the person who was supposed to be looking at development should have caught it. Anyway, we backed off those dupes, got the single recs displayable - life was good. Any accolades????? Nope!!!!!! I guess that comes from inside????

I was keeping my cool. I was dealing with the stress. I can't say the same for my co-worker. He kept slamming his desk in frustration, swearing, etc. All that did was add to my stress. Now I'm a very expressive person, but when push comes to shove and I'm under stress to figure out a problem at work. I'm heads down - serious - figure it out - no dramatics. I can't afford the energy waste. So....when someone I work with is doing that it is quite disconcerting. When he yelled at me................. look out!!!!!!! Especially when he yelled at me for talking too loud on the phone on a 3 way speaker phone conference call when he's been slamming things on his desk. I've been sucking it up for 15 hours straight. I didn't go home for a 2 hour break to have a little dinner because I live 1/2 hour away. Certainly don't yell at me when you've been having little temper tantrums at your desk every 15 minutes when things that you are supposed to be able to control don't work!!!! I expressed my concern about using a tool that you couldn't control way back. Did anyone listen????? I asked if there was a way to log the process so we'd know where the process was dyig. Did anyone listen?????? You're listening now. Aye - what a week.

Is anyone listening???????? Who takes care of me?????????? I guess I do. So what do I do for relaxation???????? Mow the lawn for 2 hours. hahaha.

I've got to say though, since I need Rich to focus on the remodeling and I'm the new lawn mower of 2 acres. I bought a new rider and a new push mower. The zero turn mower is awesome. Tight spots are tricky, but it sure gets through the yard a lot faster.

See ya -

okay - so here I am in South Carolina. The weather is really nice here right now. I really enjoyed meeting all the CSC people that I've been working with by phone for the past 2 years. They are all great to work with, especially when you can work directly with them without the administrators. Well, I just added comment ability on this blog. Let's see if it worked!

So..........I'm in Columbia South Carolina right now. I've got a nice hotel room all to myself. During the day I'll be busy with the conference. Afterwards I'll have lots of quiet time. That can be very therapeutic actually.

We waited on the tarmac for over an hour after our flight was already delayed by about 2 hrs. So we arrived about 3.5 hrs late into Colombia. Kind of tiring. But, we made it safe and sound. You gotta love that motion sickness patch. It really helps me with the incline and decline. It makes me tired, but nothing wrong with a nap when you're just sitting there getting hot anyway.

I don't know how Ko and Ha-Min handle a 14 hour plane trip though. That must be kind of stressful.

We got settled into our rooms and then went out to eat at a decent seafood restaurant. I had crab cakes - yummy. I feel a little guilty because Rich and David had sloppy joes. A couple of the guys went out for beers, but I declined. Its been a long day.