Once more unto the breach, dear friends

We are entering the final week of our system upgrade and are planning to go live this weekend. It has been a long and tortured road we have travelled. Lots of testing and retesting and trying to see if the system is going to work as anticipated. We have been playing with this upgrade since last December and, while I would still like some more time to get comfortable with it, there comes a time when you must cast off and hope for a favorable wind. Long hours, late nights, lots of last minutes things to finish up. Of course, with change, there are those who will embrace it as progress and those who will complain regardless of how much it will improve their lot. One of my jobs is to make them happy (or at least keep them quiet).

I think I need more Scotch.

See ya'll on the other side.