I think this week went fast. Not really sure … it was a bit of a blur and chaos. Work has been crazy busy with juggling things. I’m still involved in 2 major projects, though they haven’t demanded much of my time this week. I’ve been occupied with my 3 smaller projects trying to get 1 or 2 knocked off while battling software problems on a 4th, unrelated, email system. I suspect the vendor screwed something up with a software update and isn’t owning up to the problem. Unfortunately it means I get to deal with the effects of that and try to keep things running for our customers.
Wednesday was rather nuts. It started off with the chaos of dealing with the fact that somebody in Madison took it upon himself to declare all the UW campuses closed due to weather. Not all of them listened mind you, but we did. Oh… did I mention he did this about an hour before classes were due to start? On the last full week of classes before finals? Without regard to whether we really *needed* to close? Yeah … pissed a lot of people off. Communication breakdowns on our end meant some people showed up anyway and some people got 5 to 8 notifications that we were closed. Lovely. Follow that up with the discovery that some enterprising spammer had been using our website to relay spam for the previous 5 days and an incident with the aforementioned email system. Oh… and I was supposed to be a pallbearer in my great aunt’s funeral that day too. I didn’t go due to the weather. Our dance theatre preview night was also canceled/postponed due to weather.
Yesterday Warren had his 4-month well-baby appointment. He’s doing very well … a healthy 17-pound baby boy. He got pokes so he was of course unhappy about that, but he still handles them much better than Laura did at his age. She got a poke for H1N1, as did Liz. No pokes for me, since I got my H1N1 last week. Still need to schedule my seasonal though. Yesterday afternoon was devoted to one of the small work projects and we made great progress on that. Today I spent most of my day working on a different project and fighting little flareups with the problem child email server as well as file services issues. Overall wasn’t a horrid day but I’m glad it’s done.
This weekend we’ll hopefully get the kids to see the man in the big red suit. I’m kinda curious how Laura is going to react, since she’s mentioned Santa a few times in the past few weeks and seemed enthusiastic about him. Warren I’m sure won’t care too much. I think we’re going to try and call it an early night and maybe get more sleep tonight than the past two.
