Fantastically Normal

So the worst week of my career, weekend with the boy and a GREAT clip

So this past week was pretty horrible. I am not meaning to complain (no one really means it when they say that), but it was just crazy. Now, most of the following information is IT related so if you aren't interested in the ramblings of IT-project manager, just move along to the fantastic review of Star Wars by a 3 year old below. So the hard part about this week has been that the project / deliverable that I oversaw the past 3 or 4 months is in production and is experiencing issues that we did not see in the test environment at all. We pushed hard and even tried rolling a couple proposed fixes to production to see if they would work. Of course, we couldn't test these fixes before putting them in because in the test environment, everything works peachy. So at the end of the week (8 o'clock last night), we called it a week and decided to hit it around the clock first thing Monday morning. It appears to be a database issue of some kind, but once again, production and test environments are totally the same (or so they seem to be). So all the sweating and pain of the week were basically for nothing, and we are not that much closer to finding the smoking gun. I honestly can say that I have never come up against this kind of thing.

Anyways, I am having a blast this weekend taking care of the boy as the wife is out of town at her dad's house. We went and threw rocks into a creek, went to the Smyrna City muesem (complete with old guys just chatting on a Saturday morning...love that), stood on railroad tracks (no train came by unfortunately) and went to the fire station to look at fire trucks. Pretty great morning all in all. This afternoon we are hitting up Petsmart and Best Buy. Sounds like a boys' weekend all right.

So here is the cool clip where a little 3 year old girl reviews Star Wars. Awesome.