07.01.99 - Epic logins and sick jokes

I've been so busy today and I still felt a little bit 'lagged' from not getting much sleep on Tuesday night so it was a struggle to get through the day. The techie from the software company spent all day on site at the hospital working on problems with the database from hell that I am supposed to be application manager for. I've said it once and I will say it again, "It's a doomed project!"... even more so now that the Project Manager is leaving in less than three months! I managed to understand the SQL in the background of the database a little more though as a result of the techie being there and I feel like I am getting back into the swing of things a little more after the holiday period. It took all my energy just to go back to work and I really haven't felt like sinking my teeth into all the problems I get with the database. This has kind of kicked my arse into gear and by tomorrow I could be well fired up in time for a brainstorming meeting (uhoh... brainstorming... I'd better make sure I get more sleep tonight!).

I was REALLY crabby this morning and it started when I logged into my computer too quickly and it didn't connect me to the database server (argh!). I had to restart the computer and go through the epic login procedure all again. I've never known such a long login procedure and I'm not sure if it has something to do with me having Windows NT now or not. I have to key in one password, press Ctrl+Alt+Del, then wait one minute while it connects, then type in another password, then wait for the error message, then type in another password, then type in another password and then wait while it runs the printer connection thingy through DOS! Even after all that I lost my printer connection halfway through the day because I print via the network through Pauline's computer and she had a crash! Anyway after the login fiasco I downloaded a really dumb e-mail from a manager asking for some statistical figures that we had already sent her in a slightly different format. She wanted us to do them again but just key them from a printout into a spreadsheet so that it looked 'prettier'!!!! I suggested she just use the printout (although not terribly politely because I was crabby, remember) and got a snotty e-mail back telling me that I had agreed to do this the month before. I had done no such thing! Ugh... she was sent to test me this morning i'm sure of it. Then I got all paranoid because Pauline made some comment about me upsetting people and her having to sweeten them up afterwards. I'm a nice person, I really am! I just don't suffer fools gladly and boy there are a ton of them at the hospital!

I almost went out tonight into London but thankfully what was planned didn't come to fruition or I would have been dead through exhaustion by the weekend. I have agreed to go out with my old school friend tomorrow and I don't really want to go, I just want to sit around watching TV or listening to music. I have already avoided it and put him off twice so I can't do it again. Drat! I'm due in London on Saturday and will come back on Sunday if I can figure out what is going on with the train timetables since they are closing Marylebone station. Then on Monday I am due back in London again because I am going to see a musical show with someone! Oh no... I need a body double to cope with this. In fact... a really attractive body double might be in order for Monday. Hehe.

I got my mobile phone back today. Yay! Two weeks of waiting and one insurance form later I have this vital appendage returned to me. It was hell, it really was... but I came through it ok and there was only one message waiting for me at the recall service so it was not a great disaster. At least I can go to London with peace of mind now. I hated being out and about without my communication lifeline. It's a sad state of affairs when a telecommunication device means more to me than getting enough sleep. Oh my baby needs recharging! I'll be right back. Hehehe.

I have this rather sick joke with someone at work that every time I use an exclamation mark in an e-mail a patient on the waiting list dies! Oops.....there goes another one. The reason I mention this is because I just noticed I have used an inordinate amount of them in this entry. I guess waiting lists really will come down in the UK if I keep this up.

Ok, I know. I'm waffling now so I guess I'll stop.

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