Well, crap.
I have tried (oh, how I have tried) to keep this from ever being a whiny, gripe-y type of blog. Oh, I’m not above the occasional entertaining rant, when the mood strikes, but I’ve never especially cared for stumbling into information about someone else’s personal problems online in whatever forum –; it gives me a creepy feeling. So I generally try to avoid creeping anyone else out with my woes and sorrows.
Tonight I’m making a brief exception. The occasion is that Sydney the dog (who, despite what I’m about to relate, remains an utterly wummish puppalina, dear to my heart) did snatch Lorie’s eyeglasses down off the coffee table and so did begin to play and chew and gnaw upon them. I was able to snatch them back before too much harm was done; the main frame and lenses are all intact, but she did manage to mangle one of the earpieces pretty good.
The kicker is we have an unusual (for us) amount of travel coming up, with both a family reunion in Arkansas, and then a wedding in Chicago, all in the next 8 weeks or so. All of which is stretching our budget way too much for comfort as it is. It’s hard to see how we’re gonna manage to pay for eyeglass repair right now. Damn damn damn.
In happier news, I wrote the most ass-kickingly flexible and well-tuned stored procedure of my career to date today. I’m pretty proud of myself about that. Now I just have to write a data dictionary for a 150-table quasi-dimensional data mart (I say quasi-, that is, because although it’s alledged to be a star-schema-ed decision support system, but Management doesn’t seem interested in allowing time and other recsources for a proper taxonomic analysis of data elements, so the result is sort of arbitrarily denormalized here and there into somewhat less-than-fully-articulated categories. For all that, it works pretty ok. that.) in two days, and then I get to go on vacation. If you can call visiting in-laws in the hottest time of the year in Arkansas a vacation. Meh.
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