Week 08, 2001 ,Svenson

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A bit warmer, no ice of course, and beautiful broken indigo to black clouds with, by the time I get in Venlo a soft pastel background showing trough the cracks. We get a few rays of sun, it still takes till noon before the sun swings out from behind the main building to reflect in my screen. Five minutes later the clouds reunite into a dull grey mass. With some drops of rain in the evening.
Current temp is 12.2C in and 3.2C out.

I finally complete the validations programs. So I can wrap that up (for a few weeks at least).

And Jan comes around with a question I mailed him about a month ago. I don't remember the question anymore so I have to dig up the original mail (he forwarded it back to me but the screen prints got lost) and Ronny jogs my two and a half memory cells.
Jan claimed (and still does) that it is possible to make an order based on an order with a different address. It is possible in OMSI-3 () and not in TeleSales so he demands it there as well. I tried in OMSI-3 and I didn't succeed so I asked him to demonstrate the procedure.
Well he comes over with a big smile to 'show these young uns how it is done'. And about an hour later he moved of. No new function is needed in TeleSales. <g> .

 

After work I go to the hospital, visiting my father. There are no new changes in plan. With the operation scheduled on Wednesday morning. If all goes well he may be released on Saturday.
So expect short posts (or complete gaps) till then. I get up at 5:45 to get to work in time and I get back from the hospital at around 21:30. That schedule doesn't leave much time for daynoting.

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In Basket Ball you can get a 'time out'.
Why don't we get that in life?

 

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A nice promising morning with less clouds than yesterday. It does turn grey sooner though and while there are a few flashes of sun that is not enough to brighten up the day.
Current temp is 12.5C in and 1.5C out.

I got a reply from John, from OFI, about the problem the Italians found in the General ledger posting. It turns out the Italians were right. They found a bug that has been surviving for more than four years, with at least two very thorough complete process test periods. So I got to exterminate it at last.

Nothing much happens further so I do catch up on some lose ends.

 

My father is fine. Of course, they still have to start cutting. That's for tomorrow morning, around eight so I am not sure he will be back on his room in the evening or still recovering in the intensive care ward.

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When dragons fly you don't have to guard your back.

 

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Lots of grey clouds with the occasional break. the breaks aren't long enough to close the blinds, just turning the head to the side and blinking a few time and the cloud cover is back.
Current temp is 11.9C in and 2.0C out.

I did nothing today. Lots of it.

The surgery went well. At first they said he had to stay in intensive till tomorrow morning but he was back in his room at around eight (20:00). Not bad. Not bad atal.

And I made me a batch of rice with curry and some pieces of chicken. Great, too much and a bit late.

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When dragons fly you don't have to guard your back.

 

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Grey clouds again. With grey mist in the morning. We had two breaks in the grey clouds lasting for about 3 minutes. Combined. In the afternoon lots of drizzle was falling from the grey overhead covering.
Did I mention it was a grey day?
Current temp is 11.0C in and 3.1C out.

At work I did mostly the same thing as yesterday. Lots of nothing. I feel like a fire-fighter, putting out many small fires, just waiting for the big one.

 

Doesn't look good does it? www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/17003.html Or get a link-fest here www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/17009.html . Is there anything wrong with SCSI and FireWire disks?

 

Dad is much better. Although.
Normally he has kidney dialysis on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 3 time a week. This week he had dialysis on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. And it shows. Now they are taking about giving him another go tomorrow. And of course he has Saturday coming up as well. My guess he is not going to get it tomorrow. Unless they tie him up.
Shouldn't be necessary either.

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When dragons fly you don't have to guard your back.

 

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It was cloudy and overcast this morning, remnants of yesterday. From about 9:00 onwards gradually widening breaks occurred and by noon be had some lovely open sunny skies. With a hailstorm (under full sunshine, beautifull!) thrown in at 16:00. Later we had rain, snow, more hail, more rain, and (goining on at this time) more snow...
Anything except sun.
Current temp is 99.9C in and 00.0C out.

A new problem cropped up in Italy yesterday in the XML filling routine.
To begin with they had a problem sending their data via FTP to the NT server here in Venlo. As an interim measure we moved it from AS/400 to AS/400 and than to the NT server (over the local network). It turned out that the file was a bit too big for the NT. Well 5Meg isn't too big but if you set FTP for a 15 minute time out and then send 5Meg over a slow line ....
So we got the XML on the NT resulting in an data-type error. Turns out that 5 records (on a total of 237858) had a spurious character added. Strangely enough it was all on the weight field. I did a quick (really) manual correction on the data (to get the catalog process back on track) and than spent some hours searching for a possible problem. Which I didn't find. I did add some extra initialisation to the code.
We will test again on Monday, directly on the Italian database.

 

Sensible decision. Just proves IBM does listen. You just have to scream hard enough. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/17107.html

 

He is back home.
The original estimate was for getting my father back home next Monday. Things went better than expected. He has a big pad on the side of his neck and difficulty turning his head and part of the stitched up slit is visible. A bit Frankenstein like <g>.
But we are not complaining. (yet) <g>

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A sleeping dragon is more dangerous than a wake one.

 

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Cloudy again this morning, this time including snow, at various intensities during the morning. We do get a few sunny hours in the afternoon leading into the night.
Current temp is 13.2C in and -6.1C out.

Shopping. My father is back home but not really in shape so I do the regular shopping run. With a short visit to town for wine and fruit. The computer shop is closed though so I am still without wireless stuff.

I also take care of lunch (simply beefsteak and cauliflower ).

And of course the ink in the printer runs out in the evening just while I am printing a photograph from my fathers neck. He looks a bit Frankenstein like with those big stitches running down from behind his ear. <g> .

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At least one thing is easy with computers, ...
getting behind schedule.

 

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Icy cold (well lots of ice and about -7C) in the morning. After sunrise the most of the ice is melted away fast and, clothed in something black it even feels warm. Where the sun doesn't reach the ice doesn't melt though, showing the real temperature. In the afternoon we get a new packet of snow, replacing the melted stuff.
Current temp is 14.8C in and -0.8C out.

Dry and cold and no wind. And good running.

I make tomato soup in the morning. With a good handful of red and green spicy peppers. While cleaning and chopping that I get some under my right thumb nail, causing a hot, burning feeling that lasts all day. Oh, the soup is delicious.

Things are not going too well with my father. He has a known problem with his heart (probably his next surgical adventure) sometimes going too fast or beating unregularly. Normally he only suffers pain from that about once or twice a month. Since the operation he has got that pain at least once a day. I suspect the operation strained his hart more than expected. We have some pills that help but if this goes on a few more days he may have to return to hospital soon.

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Ants are small and weak, yet they are about the most successful animals on earth.