Jamie Hilao

Ho-hum, I’m twiddling my thumbs.

Our Development Server at work went down, and after organizing my binder, cleaning my desk, organizing my e-mail messages, and completing my performance review assessment which is due by the end of the year, there’s nothing else I can possibly do right now.

This is making me crazy.

I hate Murphy’s Law. Everything that can go wrong on my project HAS.

Well, maybe I’m exaggerating a tad.

It’s been this way for the past 5 days. 5 very loooong days.

I just finished writing a 2-page blog about everything that has gone wrong but decided not to bore you with the details.

Instead, I’ll bore you with a brief summary:

• Some upgrades this weekend caused my PC to shut off over the weekend. So, I wasn’t able to log in remotely UNTIL after many FRANTIC calls, I found someone who lived near the studio to come in and turn on my computer. Yes, I have very nice friends at work. But this is a bitch session, so we won’t focus on that.
• I use Remote Function Calls from a Java application to connect to SAP. A developer made changes to SAP code which, in laymen’s terms, broke some stuff on my end.
• The developer who made the changes is on vacation until after the New Year. Once I found someone to fix the SAP code, I tried to test his changes. The Development Server was down, so it was a no go.
• After some analysis, we figured out why the server went down: Despite explicit instructions from a consultant on my team to NOT apply certain patches, our Web Operations Group proceeded with the installation, which affected our database & caused the server to go down.
• The Development Server is still down. It’s 4:15 p.m. Most likely I will have to make up for the time lost by working on Christmas Eve.
• All this crap has turned me into a cranky bitch, much to the joy of everyone around me, especially G. (Thanks for putting up with me, babe!)

I have the best intentions - I’m trying to get everything done as quickly as possible so I can transition into my new role - but this is fate’s way of telling me that the more I stress, the worse things become.

I’m OK. Really.

Actually, I do feel better after venting. Maybe this “time off” is doing me good.

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