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Pleasant task
With all the changes in organization at work I am taking over support for several systems that had been the responsibility of other DBA’s. Another one came along today. I looked over the documentation this morning and was absolutely delighted. It told me everything I need to know, and far more than I usually get. It was concise and clearly written. Furthermore, the actual system is simple and clean–the developers successfully stopped management from adding a huge layer of utterly unnecessary complication.
I promptly send a nice Thank You e-mail to the project manager and the tech writer. I have been feeling quite good about work all day since then. Even a tedious meeting about naming standards (on another project) didn’t wreck my mood.
Bringing back memories
mia_mcdavid was shopping on Cedar Avenue, just south of downtown, and I met her for lunch. Took the light rail train from Government Center to the Cedar-Riverside stop, got off, and walked a few blocks. Very much the sort of thing I would have done in Chicago. The Minneapolis light rail cars are a lot like the CTA ‘L cars, except cleaner and with a few more electronic conveniences. We had a nice lunch, although I don’t think I would choose that particular restaurant again.
Got back to Government Center about 1 PM. The elevators were running slow and there was a huge backlog of people, which again made me think of some days on the CTA. I was amused to notice that among those stuck waiting with me was Sandy Vargas, the County Administrator. Good. All ranks should suffer together.
At colgaffneyis Dance Guild last night one of musicians commented on a local bribery scandal. What surprised her was that the politicians sold themselves so cheaply. Like us, she moved here from Chicago!
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