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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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30 July 2002 - 8:40 am
Geez, who would have thought that missing a single day of work at a job where I get very little if any email on most days would result in me having about 20 messages to catch up on when I do actually take a day off? Anyway, I spent the past weekend in St. Louis. I saw Austin Powers on Friday night (funny, but not great); had lunch with my grandmother, a cousin, and her husband at TGI Friday's on Saturday; spent hours-upon-hours moving ACM furniture and computers around (and creating fire hazards with some questionable wiring) on Saturday afternoon/evening; more ACM stuff Sunday afternoon; watched the Cardinals game on TV Sunday night. Then the fun started.
When I woke up early on Saturday morning it was quite hot in the apartment. Hotter than 85°F. Apparently the AC wasn't working. Chris tried to call the maintenance number, but we were told to call back at 8. He did so, and informed them of the problem, bu I didn't wait around to see if it got fixed. I packed up and got out of there. I made a quick trip to South County to help my grandmother pick up her new car, and then I got on the road to head back to Evansville. I needed to be back at work in time for a 2:30 meeting, but everything seemed to be working against me. There was a lot of construction going on and a huge down-pour that required me to reduce my speed to below 60mph in order to see the road. But I did make it back by 2:15. If only I hadn't.
I spent the 90 minutes I was at work in a meeting on the second floor in an un-air-conditioned conference room having this really cool web application I made for these guys picked apart line-by-line. Just to give you an example of the general tenor of the meeting, we spent probably 20 minutes discussing one five-item pull-down field. After a lot of discussion it was decided that the word "install" on the drop-down needed to be changed to "installation" because "install" might be interpreted to mean "in a testing stall," even though this system has nothing to do with testing stalls. Also, "repair" has to be changed to "product update." Did I mention that it was really hot in the conference room? I would give a lot of money to get those 90 minutes back.
Posted by on 30 July 2002 at 8:40 AM
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