Update on Life, Monday -Thursday (Long)
Aug. 14th, 2003 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmcnealyThis week has not been too terribly exciting. I was sick in bed on Monday and Tuesday, from a wheat flour coating on some French fries I ate on Saturday is what I suspect. I want to exchange my current body for a new one, this just plain sucks.
While I was home on Monday, I turned on the TV and caught the Canadian reality show, Pioneer Quest, where they had two couples do the complete pioneer experience in Manitoba for a year. Highly entertaining and made me glad to be home sick and turning on the TV. If you get a chance to watch it, do!
Wednesday I went back to work and tried to make further headway with the IT group and the super simple project that I want them to do for me. I have honestly spent more time writing emails justifing this stupid thing than it will take them to do it. Idiots. It looks like they are actually going to do it now, but WHY can't we all just get along like one big happy family and c-o-o-p-e-r-a-t-e?
I also worked on this quarterly data request from Reg. reporting, sometimes I wonder at the intelligence of the people they hire. You explain what the numbers mean and it just goes in one ear and out the other. Making matters worse, they put out the request for it a month and a half ago, to a guy whose no longer here, and then didn't follow up on the progress until 4 days before it was due. So I got this unknown thing dropped in my lap last Friday with a due date of Thursday on it. Yah, it was just a load of fun, fortunatly its done and I met some really cool people working on this thing too.
Michelle, who is going on vacation next week and whose job I am covering while she's gone, dropped a bombshell and informed me that the afternoon reporting process, which is nastily complicated and in EXCEL to boot (it really, really desperatly needs to be in a database, but we can't do that due to the morons in IT, GRRRRR) is just about to get even MORE freaking complicated, but she doesn't know when and she really can't finish setting it up until we actually get into doing the new process, and that could be anytime from oh... tomorrow til next month. Oh yah, and she's not leaving a number that she can be contacted at either.....
Wednesday night, Wendy came over and we got her toile fitted. It was so nice to get something positive and non-work related done for the day.
Tonight I tried on my bridesmaids dress for Lisa's wedding on Saturday, it fits like a dream and is a little loose in the waist, plus when I am wearing my heels, the dress is the right height and no extra hemming is needed. I am so happy about the fit. YAY me!
I didn't go to fencing tonight, I was thinking about it, but I had to make a run for the bus to catch it, and that left me winded and exhausted for about the next 40 mins. Not a great sign that I am over being sick, so I stayed home and took a nap.
I really need to be in good form for the rehersal and rehersal dinner tomorrow night, and then the wedding on Saturday. The groom's Mom has gone all out and its at the Boeing Museum of Flight for goodness sakes, not just a restraunt, but a catered dinner at a museum, and we will be the only ones there since its after hours. This is going to be a nice wedding, both sides are comfortably well off. I am getting my hair done "all fancy like" on Saturday since its the least I can do as a bridesmaid.
On another fencing note, I finally found the number for AmFence and my mask is being sent out shortly. I am never ordering from them again. Crappiest customer service ever, I had to call to find out where the missing part of my order was, no note on the invoice or anything, then I had to call to find out about when it was coming, after I waited a month with no notice. Would an email have killed them?
While I was home on Monday, I turned on the TV and caught the Canadian reality show, Pioneer Quest, where they had two couples do the complete pioneer experience in Manitoba for a year. Highly entertaining and made me glad to be home sick and turning on the TV. If you get a chance to watch it, do!
Wednesday I went back to work and tried to make further headway with the IT group and the super simple project that I want them to do for me. I have honestly spent more time writing emails justifing this stupid thing than it will take them to do it. Idiots. It looks like they are actually going to do it now, but WHY can't we all just get along like one big happy family and c-o-o-p-e-r-a-t-e?
I also worked on this quarterly data request from Reg. reporting, sometimes I wonder at the intelligence of the people they hire. You explain what the numbers mean and it just goes in one ear and out the other. Making matters worse, they put out the request for it a month and a half ago, to a guy whose no longer here, and then didn't follow up on the progress until 4 days before it was due. So I got this unknown thing dropped in my lap last Friday with a due date of Thursday on it. Yah, it was just a load of fun, fortunatly its done and I met some really cool people working on this thing too.
Michelle, who is going on vacation next week and whose job I am covering while she's gone, dropped a bombshell and informed me that the afternoon reporting process, which is nastily complicated and in EXCEL to boot (it really, really desperatly needs to be in a database, but we can't do that due to the morons in IT, GRRRRR) is just about to get even MORE freaking complicated, but she doesn't know when and she really can't finish setting it up until we actually get into doing the new process, and that could be anytime from oh... tomorrow til next month. Oh yah, and she's not leaving a number that she can be contacted at either.....
Wednesday night, Wendy came over and we got her toile fitted. It was so nice to get something positive and non-work related done for the day.
Tonight I tried on my bridesmaids dress for Lisa's wedding on Saturday, it fits like a dream and is a little loose in the waist, plus when I am wearing my heels, the dress is the right height and no extra hemming is needed. I am so happy about the fit. YAY me!
I didn't go to fencing tonight, I was thinking about it, but I had to make a run for the bus to catch it, and that left me winded and exhausted for about the next 40 mins. Not a great sign that I am over being sick, so I stayed home and took a nap.
I really need to be in good form for the rehersal and rehersal dinner tomorrow night, and then the wedding on Saturday. The groom's Mom has gone all out and its at the Boeing Museum of Flight for goodness sakes, not just a restraunt, but a catered dinner at a museum, and we will be the only ones there since its after hours. This is going to be a nice wedding, both sides are comfortably well off. I am getting my hair done "all fancy like" on Saturday since its the least I can do as a bridesmaid.
On another fencing note, I finally found the number for AmFence and my mask is being sent out shortly. I am never ordering from them again. Crappiest customer service ever, I had to call to find out where the missing part of my order was, no note on the invoice or anything, then I had to call to find out about when it was coming, after I waited a month with no notice. Would an email have killed them?
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Date: 2003-08-14 09:58 pm (UTC)---------
Augh. I *hate* *HATE* it when people put stuff in Excel that should be in a relational DB. It just blows my mind. I used to program in Access, but am so rusty with it anymore...
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Date: 2003-08-14 10:13 pm (UTC)Oh, and to further make things interesting, she has it all strung together using VLOOKUP functions.
This workbook is driving me INSANE!!!
Plus, the Internal Auditors do not consider Access to be an "Approved" system. But if you copy and paste it into XL by hand, oh that's approved and just fine. WTH!?!