Did you ever feel like you were standing on the deck of a sinking ship? Should you "bail" or should you bail? For now, I'm trying my damndest to bail water faster than it's pouring in, but it's hard. The latest project undertaken here at work has not been implemented well. They had high hopes for an automated install, which did not work as expected. They ran a scan to see if things were installed properly, based on the presence of an add-on, only to find that their logic was faulty - it turns out it's possible to have the add-on without the base program, which they didn't scan for, and it's possible to have the add-on located in different directory on the PC and still have it work. Welcome to Friday before D-Day. Tomorrow they are upgrading the server, come hell or high water. Monday all machines have to have the new client to work. My machines have all been tested by hand and are okay, so my folks are fine. I may find my weekend filled with bailing out the rest of this joint, though. {Sigh} I need a bigger bucket.
There are certain things about Nashville which would drive a Baptist minister to drink - in public. One of these things is the entity known as NES. Whenever NES isn't out butchering trees, apparently they're arbitrarily turning off power to entire city blocks. Granted, we had a storm the other night. Granted, there were a lot of people without power, and there was a transformer damaged. But notifying Vanderbilt 15 minutes after you've already done it that there will be "intermittent" power outages, then leaving the power off for an hour and a half, just doesn't seem Kosher to me. Blakemore is very busy street, as is 21st. I know that the traffic lights on Blakemore between Natchez and 21st were out, no police presence, just reliance that folks driving in Nashville would know to treat the intersections as 4-way stops. Since I swear two-thirds of the population doesn't understand the concept of a 4-way stop, this was a bad idea. Meanwhile, back at the ranc...
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