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I won't say today was perfect, I'd be lying through my teeth, but it went very well, all things considered. I felt way more human all day, than yesterday. I had a brief bout of stuffed-up/dizziness around 1:30, but as I'd taken my medicine at 1:00, I just waited for it to hit. Since that was during the part of the class someone else was teaching, I didn't have to be coherent, I only had to absorb, and I was still able to handle that.
I'm told that I was fairly clear/helpful/useful during my part of the class. I managed to pitch my voice so everyone could hear it without hurting myself, too. My boss called a break for me to rest my voice, the funny thing is, it wasn't bugging my throat that much. I don't know what to call the voice I was using, but it definitely carried and didn't hurt. The conversational chit-chat at nice tones during the break, almost killed me though! :P (The speaking, not the having to chit-chat, though that has also been known to have that effect.... :)
Then when we got to the DBA's parts, it was very helpful. Some of it, it turns out we have been doing the "best" possible thing all along. This irritates me. I wanted there to be a better answer, darnit! :P However, there are several areas where he taught us to use better tools and he gave us ways around some of our most irritating problems. This was very cool.
After work-class, I went over to the office. C. is a project manager I've worked with on several sites; it was her first time in our office, and I got to show it off and introduce her to the people who were stupid enough to still be around at 5:30 (which was a surprising number). I stayed until almost 6:30, following up on things that happened during the day (I had two team members in the office during class, working on key issues, plus the system architect was chasing some). I need to follow up on some of those tomorrow. I will cut part or all of class to do it - the system architect will be teaching troubleshooting techniques, not to the programmer level, but to the technician level (ie, assumption of no code or debugging facility, but can read logs). I'd like to attend as much as I can, but the reality is, I know most of these tools and they can be gotten from reading docs, versus the database stuff today, which was the stuff I was really concerned with not being at all familiar with.
I sent my boss some files from my home email on Monday, because I was out of it and didn't want to have to juggle onto the VPN, sign onto the Windows account that can access that email account, and send it from work. (This involves either signing out and back in, or simply hot-switching to that account; waiting for it to fully log in; shutting off the firewall; if I hot switched, switching back to my personal account and shutting the firewall off there; connecting in on the VPN (must be done from first logged-in account; switching back to work if I was on personal; and then signing into email. I hate to go through it, but I hate to just sign out because it closes the tasks I was working on, and I was really spacy yesterday.)
He got that address in his stupid email program's memory and sent me about 10 work emails at home, yesterday evening. That wasn't very helpful, I didn't check email after he sent them until tonight, so I was very confused by his references to things he sent me. He cc'ed several people, including one memorable message that went to various and sundry people in sales & marketing and some VP's. Yeah, my home email needed to be on that.
Oh, well, Price I pay for being sick/stupid/lazy and sending that file from my home email, I guess. I sent him an email noting that he'd apparently got my home email in there, responded to a few issues, and forwarded the couple I need for reference to my work account so I can store them there. Pain, though.
So, yeah. On the one hand, not a great day. On the other hand, I've been up since about 6:40 this morning, and I'm starting to feel sleepy, but I'm not exhausted, and I'm not sore, and I'm not feeling like the dead gone walking.
Damn, but that's worth a lot.
I'm told that I was fairly clear/helpful/useful during my part of the class. I managed to pitch my voice so everyone could hear it without hurting myself, too. My boss called a break for me to rest my voice, the funny thing is, it wasn't bugging my throat that much. I don't know what to call the voice I was using, but it definitely carried and didn't hurt. The conversational chit-chat at nice tones during the break, almost killed me though! :P (The speaking, not the having to chit-chat, though that has also been known to have that effect.... :)
Then when we got to the DBA's parts, it was very helpful. Some of it, it turns out we have been doing the "best" possible thing all along. This irritates me. I wanted there to be a better answer, darnit! :P However, there are several areas where he taught us to use better tools and he gave us ways around some of our most irritating problems. This was very cool.
After work-class, I went over to the office. C. is a project manager I've worked with on several sites; it was her first time in our office, and I got to show it off and introduce her to the people who were stupid enough to still be around at 5:30 (which was a surprising number). I stayed until almost 6:30, following up on things that happened during the day (I had two team members in the office during class, working on key issues, plus the system architect was chasing some). I need to follow up on some of those tomorrow. I will cut part or all of class to do it - the system architect will be teaching troubleshooting techniques, not to the programmer level, but to the technician level (ie, assumption of no code or debugging facility, but can read logs). I'd like to attend as much as I can, but the reality is, I know most of these tools and they can be gotten from reading docs, versus the database stuff today, which was the stuff I was really concerned with not being at all familiar with.
I sent my boss some files from my home email on Monday, because I was out of it and didn't want to have to juggle onto the VPN, sign onto the Windows account that can access that email account, and send it from work. (This involves either signing out and back in, or simply hot-switching to that account; waiting for it to fully log in; shutting off the firewall; if I hot switched, switching back to my personal account and shutting the firewall off there; connecting in on the VPN (must be done from first logged-in account; switching back to work if I was on personal; and then signing into email. I hate to go through it, but I hate to just sign out because it closes the tasks I was working on, and I was really spacy yesterday.)
He got that address in his stupid email program's memory and sent me about 10 work emails at home, yesterday evening. That wasn't very helpful, I didn't check email after he sent them until tonight, so I was very confused by his references to things he sent me. He cc'ed several people, including one memorable message that went to various and sundry people in sales & marketing and some VP's. Yeah, my home email needed to be on that.
Oh, well, Price I pay for being sick/stupid/lazy and sending that file from my home email, I guess. I sent him an email noting that he'd apparently got my home email in there, responded to a few issues, and forwarded the couple I need for reference to my work account so I can store them there. Pain, though.
So, yeah. On the one hand, not a great day. On the other hand, I've been up since about 6:40 this morning, and I'm starting to feel sleepy, but I'm not exhausted, and I'm not sore, and I'm not feeling like the dead gone walking.
Damn, but that's worth a lot.
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About six months ago I did the same thing (sent from personal email) for about the same reasons and learned my lesson. There is one VP in business development who, to this day, will send me stuff at home. When I moved my desk last month I landed next door to Kenny in IT. I was ranting about this just yesterday and Kenny said 'no problem, he breaks his laptop all the time, next time he's here [he's out of Atlanta], he'll bring it over for me to fix and I'll get your address out of Outlook.' Whew.
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