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Friday, April 07, 2006

zzzzz huh? I'm awake, I swear!

I'm going to try to go to bed extra early tonight. I can barely keep my eyes open. I had to leave work early yesterday to see my prof, so when I came in this am worried because the oil light was on, I checked email and saw that casual Friday was cancelled. Oops. So I had to go home and change, but first I stopped at the gas station to get some oil and figure out how to open the hood. Got back to work and things were pleasantly hosed up. "Hey, there's a database error, can you fix that?" Well, yeah, actually, I can, if you'll look at your code and tell me what server and database you're trying to hit. "How do I do that?" Argh! Of all the problems, only one was actually database related. These are the perils of being the early bird. All problems are by default mine to solve. I have access to the server room, so I spent my morning freezing in there (it's cold on purpose). Ick. Then someone wanted a trigger on a table to fire off an email on an insert, to happen upon some data entry that DOES NOT include a row insert on the table in question. "Uhm, you see, the database can't do anything in response to an event that hasn't happened. You'll have to change your business process if you really need to do this."


Argh! That's work talk! Oh no. But I'm too tired to delete it. Just skip that stuff. The writing stuff is below. Probably that's not interesting either.

I think I have a better title for The Rake -- Villian. What do you think? Dumb? I'm so sick of the title that maybe if I change the title the book will magically transform those sucky 1st 2 chapters. I can dream. I'm also sick of deciding everything sucks. Come on! It's better than it was, but now the heroine's not quite right. I really like her though. Anyway, on the other thing, I decided to totally change the characters and now it feels better. But I haven't worked on it except to notebook at the gym. Back to Villain. Actually, I'm going to get my laundry in the dryer and just go to bed.

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