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Last week will be a week that I will someday recall with the reference -- "hell week".
Firstly, work was especially strenuous this week with a roll-out of the next generation of the Life Expectancy Fullfilment System (LEFS) project, for which I'm the secondary developer. In addition to the web-based portion of the project, I wrote a billing application that runs exclusively on a nightly basis to grab orders that are "ready for billing", processes them, dumping them via XML to the Oracle Billing system that we have on the back-end and then updating the LEFS system's database. Well, something broke and thanks to the lack of requirements on the original incarnation of the project -- I had to re-write, re-test and re-do a majority of the billing piece. *sigh* On top of that, I'm working on two other projects -- on rewrite of an older system as well as a stand-alone importer to convert an Access database into a SQL database -- on the fly, updating ump-teen tables in the process.
Secondly, I'm in a musical called Sanders Family Christmas, and we're in the last week of rehearsals before we go into tech week (that starts tonight...*AHHHH!*). I had been struggling with both the libretto and my lines, until this past Thursday. I think I finally have them down, but rehearsals have just been a large chunk of time -- every night from 7pm to 10-10:30pm. Time that I've missed away from Kelsey and life in general. We've got eight shows over the next two weekends...
Thirdly, we [the Plano Ice Dogs] had a heck of a week on our hockey schedule following the Thanksgiving break. Three games in six days. We ended up winning two of three, losing last night to our archrivals -- The Skateful Dead in overtime. It was a nail-biter...and our first loss this session. *grrr*
Oh...and lastly it just happens to be the HOLIDAYS! Gah! I've been taking every opportunity I can to shop (for and with Kelsey) and this weekend was no exception. In fact, Saturday Kelsey and I went shopping after she was off of work and then went to see Pride & Prejudice. What a great movie. It was completely romantic and actually made me melt a little, I must admit.
So...I hope that this week might return to some semblence of normalcy.
Firstly, work was especially strenuous this week with a roll-out of the next generation of the Life Expectancy Fullfilment System (LEFS) project, for which I'm the secondary developer. In addition to the web-based portion of the project, I wrote a billing application that runs exclusively on a nightly basis to grab orders that are "ready for billing", processes them, dumping them via XML to the Oracle Billing system that we have on the back-end and then updating the LEFS system's database. Well, something broke and thanks to the lack of requirements on the original incarnation of the project -- I had to re-write, re-test and re-do a majority of the billing piece. *sigh* On top of that, I'm working on two other projects -- on rewrite of an older system as well as a stand-alone importer to convert an Access database into a SQL database -- on the fly, updating ump-teen tables in the process.
Secondly, I'm in a musical called Sanders Family Christmas, and we're in the last week of rehearsals before we go into tech week (that starts tonight...*AHHHH!*). I had been struggling with both the libretto and my lines, until this past Thursday. I think I finally have them down, but rehearsals have just been a large chunk of time -- every night from 7pm to 10-10:30pm. Time that I've missed away from Kelsey and life in general. We've got eight shows over the next two weekends...
Thirdly, we [the Plano Ice Dogs] had a heck of a week on our hockey schedule following the Thanksgiving break. Three games in six days. We ended up winning two of three, losing last night to our archrivals -- The Skateful Dead in overtime. It was a nail-biter...and our first loss this session. *grrr*
Oh...and lastly it just happens to be the HOLIDAYS! Gah! I've been taking every opportunity I can to shop (for and with Kelsey) and this weekend was no exception. In fact, Saturday Kelsey and I went shopping after she was off of work and then went to see Pride & Prejudice. What a great movie. It was completely romantic and actually made me melt a little, I must admit.
So...I hope that this week might return to some semblence of normalcy.
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