Surprises.. last Wed (day before thanksgiving).. for those who don’t know the story, here it is:
About 3pm we were being lazy and considering sitting in and watching videos that night and ordering in pizza.. idea came to me.. check out DisneyLand’s hours and traffic, knew she wanted to go there.. so we headed off “somewhere” (she said she liked surprises, so hey, why not…) .. as we finally make it near Anaheim, she decides she really wants to know… so I mention Disney.. and that was one heck of a surprise.. she’s been dying to go there.. so that would have been a great night to just wander Disney, take in a few attractions.. but.. after a few rides, we came out just in time for the fireworks. As the fireworks sparkled above… I brought out the ring and proposed with a sparkle of my own.. and she said yes… (no we don’t know a date, it’ll take a while for immagration etc, so it’ll be a long engagement)
Over the last few weeks I’ve been working on a major project at work.. took a site that was a pain to update and a pain to get information from and created a new system:
A site that is generated hourly from data
A easy data entry system which reduces the places we enter data to 1 page
A site that conforms to all Intranet standards
A system which required no modifications to the “supported” architecture of the machines we run this on.
A windows application which uses the new data and provides an easy to use interface for the end user..
..unfortunately, the response from management has felt less than enthusiastic. No word back about success or failure tests, no word at all..
Kinda depressing, but I guess after a little while, I’ll get more feedback, hopefully positive.
Ok, so was sitting around thinking… I need to stop assuming things. Not just tonight but in general. I do have an issue of making assumptions, then getting upset when they don’t work out.. and good intentions aside, somehow it rarely works as expected.
Use tonight as an example.. we’ve been having problems with the circuit. I knew due to a mail earlier, that someone was on site and they were working on the problem along with the telco people. The bad assumption was that there’d be reason to need to hand-off to someone so the other person could go to work. I also assumed alternate connectivity could be handy as well to keep in contact with the ISP since they hadn’t been in the loop. As it turned out, had I called instead of assuming, I’d have known that the issue was mostly resolved and no need for me to drop by. The second half of tonight was the mini party. I had talked yesterday about crashing the party, was told it’d be ok - then this morning spoke more about it and had been told there’d be a call back with a schedule.. then when there wasn’t, I assumed (again) that if I just showed up it would make things easier since I am at least 30min away not including rush hour delays (usually the call comes in a bit late, so I’ve gotten in the habit of assuming the call will be late and hopping on the road early - if/when the assumption works, it’s a help).. but again, the assumption was wrong, the party was out rollin’ around town and with my work issues, I couldn’t head out and join, so would have been best if I hadn’t assumed that this party would be like last with staying in and hanging out. Instead I ended up getting upset with myself for sitting around for a few hours where I shouldn’t have been to begin with .. all due to assumptions.
Oh well, as I always say, things work out for the best.. picked up some mochas from 7-11 while I was waiting, tested sharing my wireless net connection for the 1st time on the newly reformatted laptop (to find it doesn’t work correctly), finally remembered to take the AP over to the other place like I had promised to, was there to pickup a server that got dropped off and got out of the house (gets quite boring staying home a lot).. so definately wasn’t a wasted trip, just not what I had intended to do with my afternoon and evening. Soon I’ll not be bored at home.. 9 more days 