Spoon Man
I don’t think I’ve yet mentioned here that the Nescafe container here has a permanent resident spoon for offloading to a cup. The poor spoon is actually corroding due to the acidity and general filth of Nescafe.
I was hoping I wouldn’t get all the way to mid-morning without knowing how my day would go, but it’s looking that way. My system changes were approved Friday night but are a bit uncertain as to whether they went into the system as promised.
The other system I busted Friday afternoon was checked by a certifiable doofus this morning and cleared for new usage, but there’s like a 5% chance there’s something bad-wrong that I will find out about soon.
I am a tremendous pain in the butt about the latter system, as I don’t trust it and have seen so many failures and glitches in it I am generally neurotic about using it. I try to delay asking Manila to check for failures until at least 30 minutes after the system’s consumption of the file, but normally I break after 10 minutes and they have to check way too early and see “In Progress.”
I rig up an SAP transaction that checks for success. Failures are not announced this way, and I don’t have permission to check for failures the normal way. This is life in this system’s security policies. Read-only access is considered a controls risk.
I used to think Manila was crazy to be so scared of it, but now I’m mortified. That’s what I get.
Moving prep is going well. We’re in basically a constant roundtable discussion to try to decide when the ocean shipment leaves. Sleeping on the floor is no biggie for me in the amount of time we’re talking about (basically any time after this week is fine with me, even though that’s really early).
I am pushing for plane tickets. The pre-move inspection is this Friday, and after that we will probably start taking down the curtain rods and prepare for a pre-move-out inspection by the guy who would help us patch holes and possibly repair the damage I did to the miserably cheap drywall hanging those curtains!
The pre-move inspection should give us ideas on the limits of the moving timing.