12/09/06 Cruise Continued ~ Pirating Bananas DIS Geekorama Part 2 Part 11

[DrHug]

Cheap Sunglasses... That's what we all need. Lime Green

 

[becka]

After a little while I start to think that the index problem is because I added new fields to the screens and I define them as new fields instead of as recurring fields. Duh! Why didn't I notice that before?

Anyway, I go take my shower and get myself and the kids ready to go quickly and get out the door to take them to preschool before I get to work around 8:30. I start looking at the problem and I don't exactly know how to fix it. A co-worker of mine and I start digging through manuals and using our test system to try to verify the root cause of the problem and to figure out exactly how the heck we are going to fix it since we cannot run anything in payroll until we get it fixed....no pressure.

 

[waltsgirl]

Amy, that is a rough day... but just the tiniest bit funny... right? On the cruise you'll be laughing about it!

Maybe?????








Actually, yes I will be but this morning it was tears!

 

[tynkerbell]

Has anyone here actually worn Spanx for any period of time? I've only tried them on so far and they seem so tight I wonder how comfortable they will be during dinner.

 

[DrHug]

Let's see...Becka, Caroline, Dennis, John1, Andy, ..........and about 163 of their associates!

Wokka wokka!

 

[waltsgirl]

Have to go out again with the pants-less boy and his sister to get DD13. One day DD13 will be like Amy, a selfless person who helps others. Today she is volunteering to help younger kids with reading at the library.

One has to start somewhere! Tell her to keep it up, it takes awhile to work your way up to helping the homeless on Friday and Saturday nights!!!

 

[becka]

Time is giong by quick and after digging through manual after manual we are having no luck. We still think we are right about the index problem but nothing we try seems to work. After a couple of hours the panic starts to set it some more...what happens if we can't run payroll?

Finally a co-worker (who we took the system over from about 9 months ago - it was not her choice -- bad situation) had to be the one to help us. It was hard to ask her for help but we were desperate and she is really the only one in an IT department of over 100+ who has really worked with this online system. Thankfully she was able to help us. It turned out to be a combination of me not creating my new fields are recurring and the HR department had entered some duplicate information into the screens there by causing index errors.

 

[lillygator]

Amy - ==== when this happens...911 V!!!
I may not make it there quick but guarateed smile!!


Ok I went to the Spanx site....just for fun and what is the Bra-llelujah!

I geel like OPI met its match!

 

[MrsMork]

For any last-minute crafters: I have a Jo-Ann "friends & family" 50% off one item coupon that I can forward to your email address if you need it.

Becka, are you interested in saving a little money??

 

[becka]

In order to make the change to the production system I have to get everyone out of the system so I could have complete control over the screens. Do you know how hard that is around lunchtime when you can't find anyone?

I get my changes made and I am feeling better but then I can't find a scheduler to purge off the rerun and schedule another error shot because it is lunchtime. I decide to run down to my WW meeting real quick just to get weighed in only to discover that I just missed them so I go back up to my desk. I manage to get the index created and the rest of the payroll test run starts to run and then BAM! The last job in the test schedule abended with a data exception error! It is 1 PM and we still don't even have one test run to work with!

 

[brack]

It's our first cruise and DH said he wants to sit outside every night together staring at all the stars and the ocean. I can't pass up a romantic opportunity like that.

Deck 10 has a great view of the stars for free but stay downstairs it will be quieter for DW and me.

 

[brack]

A mini in the works

 

[waltsgirl]

Amy!!!
I wish I were closer...I would stop by with some doctored up hot cocoa, a few Chippendales and a babysitter!!!
So sorry about your day...hope all is better tonight!

I wish you were too! That sounds like just what the DR ordered!!!

 

[Jhalkias]

I have not told you guys about my first time have I? I always loved Disney and everything Disney and of course as a kid there was no place I wanted to go more than WDW or Disneyland and I wanted my own Dumbo ride just like in the commercials. Unfortunately my parents did not have the money and since Dad was in the Army and we moved all over the place we always spent our vacation visiting family back in Arkansas. When I was 11 my Dad got orders to go to Hawaii and since we were leaving out of LA my parents were going to take a few days and take us to Disneyland. I was so excited. Of course a few weeks later the orders were changed and we were going to Naples, Italy and leaving from Philadelphia. I was one crushed 11 year old.

Of course it was not long after DH ran me over with his bike that he learned about my desire to go to WDW. He jokingly told me within a month or so of dating that if we ever got married he would take me to WDW. When we got married we looked at WDW for our honeymoon but we were poor and it was a bad time. About 2 years later I was looking at taking a trip to the mountains in TN for a long weekend when DH suggested that I start looking into that WDW trip! I was so EXCITED!!!! We booked our trip for December 1999 and it was our "honeymoon" even though we had been married two years already.

DH was not overly excited at first and he thought my planning was kind of crazy but he knew it was a big deal to me. I was actually shaking at the airport before we got on the plane because I was so excited and he would just laugh at me. He was going for me and he really didn't think he would like it. By the end of our first day DH was the one saying We have got to come back!!! I knew I loved him for a reason!!!! I even got my Dumbo ride. I rode by myself and DH got it all on video! It is hilarious. I had the biggest grin plastered on my face and I didn't even care what others thought about a 23 year old riding Dumbo by herself. For that one ride I was that little girl who always wanted that ride. It kind of makes me get weepy even thinking about it. I am such a sap!!!

No you're not!

Lots of us feel the same way.

My family could never afford it either, and I dreamed about it while watching the Wonderful World of Disney as a kid. My first trip there was with Amy (before we got married - visiting relatives in Florida).

I get that grin on my face EVERY time we get there, and EVERY time I see the Magic or the Wonder. If you are a sap, so am I. Count me in!

John1

 

[brack]

I need to catch up not ing

 

[becka]

Lucky me I find the problem within 10 minutes because once again I WAS THE ONE WHO CAUSED THE PROBLEM!!! I had made changes to the system to add some new state withholding fields on November 1st. I made the changes in test but I never got all of them copied to production! For the second time that day I look like an idiot. I manage to get it fixed and I have to have HR got into the error correction screen and manually update some records. After making my changes in production I finally get one error shot to run correctly and it is almost 2 PM.

 

[brack]

 

[MrsMork]

Jaea insists that she doesn't want to have a baby in her tummy. Today she told me she doesn't want to get married.

What's the point of having a daughter?

Of course I didn't want to get married either. and was pretty ambiguous on the baby issue for a long time. LOL.

I hate to push the grandma issue too hard though. alas.

anyone else have this problem?

My goodness, she is only 6! You are going to have to wait a couple of years to be grandma. BUT I will tell you it is way, way better than that parenting stuff!

 

[brack]

 

[becka]

Thankfully the test payroll runs ran pretty well and there were not too many questions so it only took 2 more test payroll runs before we were ready to run production. Of course while answering a question it was discovered the documentation I put in for some new errors was no where to be found. I must have typed it all up and forgot to save so I get to put it all together again tomorrow.

The payroll file was to the bank around 3:30 and I was finally able to breathe again. It was one of the longest days I have ever had at work. It is so stressful and for so long we did not even know what to do. I just feel so bad that I caused so many problems not only for me but for many others who had to deal with it today.