Christi Himmelfahrt

Today is Christi Himmelfahrt - Christs Ascension or "Christ drives to Heaven", and therefore a National Holiday here in Germany. Woohoo! No work today. At at least I wasn't supposed too.

After a leasurely wake up and a couple hours reading, I met Bill at his work for lunch. Spent a couple hours just eating lunch and chatting with him. It's nice to see him in the middle of the week and spend time together. Then I made my way back home. I was just finishing up my book and getting ready to put some laundry in and go out for a walk when the phone rang. Work calling.

A database the we depend on crapped out early yesterday morning. A hardware failure. Our poor sysadmin was at work until 1am or so working on the problem - the tech support people still hadn't shown up by 6pm yesterday when I left. Anyway, this morning the machine came back on, and Stefan worked on getting all of our processes back on line. It took awhile, and then of course, it wasn't running so good. An error that kept coming up in our online processing. So he called me and for the last two and a half hours we've been on the phone and trouble shooting. We found the error. So weird though because it's something that should have been causing an error before now, but hasn't ever caused a problem. Until now. That part of the source code wasn't changed recently. No clue. But we fixed it, tested it, and viola! it works. Sigh.

I'm going for a walk in the sunshine. It's a lovely day here. :)

Posted by Jinglelady at May 20, 2004 07:03 PM | German Life