from the trenches

Chaos.
Pandemonium.
Building burning.
Women & children first.
General breakdown in social order.
Cannibalism rampant.



Spoke too soon. We spent all day yesterday playing catch up on system transactions. Kept having problems with the system we had not seen in our earlier testing (Please See Your System Administrator). We finally nailed down all of the problems and finished up our transactions around 0130. We officially turned the old system on last night and are now "live" (although I feel like the living dead). Getting this system up and running while we continue to operate has been way more fun that you can imagine. It's kinda like trying to put tires on the bus as we drive down the road. Regardless of how we feel, we turned this thing over to the users at 0300. Now we just need to sit back and wait for the accolades/praise (or complaints).

Let the games begin...