Last work day of the year!
Dec. 21st, 2018 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayIt's my last work day of the year. Already! After today, no more work until January 2nd :-D
I've been working from home due to the amazingly awful cold. Still hoping that I'll be better in time to enjoy Christmas. Mum and I both got hit, so we've been commiserating a lot. And being really annoyed with dad, who gave it to us. Argh.
Yesterday was a very, very long working day. Boss and I spent hours trying to track down a bug in a thing we were trying to do. It's a function I re-wrote from MSSQL into Postgres and a part of me was very worried I'd fucked it up. Hours of tracing, comparing data, several dozen spreadsheets proved that nope. The bug has always existed in the function. At least for the last eight years, anyway. Nobody had ever noticed that the function wasn't behaving as intended. We spotted it because we were doing the process that used it for the first time (chap who usually does it is on holiday) so we were being super paranoid about validating the results.
We suspect he's never validated the results or he would have noticed this before *sigh*
It didn't show up in my testing due for really good reasons that are too complicated to explain, but totally suck. I feel less guilty now.
Anyway, boss and I worked until 7pm last night (boss hinted at 5pm that I was done for the day, but I stayed and kept working it with him because I knew I wouldn't have been able to rest, an effort that hasn't gone unnoticed :-D ) and found the issue, confirmed it definitely this morning, and are now waiting on higher-ups to decide what they want us to do. Neither of us intend to cancel our holiday to fix this.
So, hopefully at 5pm I'll be done for the year and then I can relax!
Still have stuff to do. I need to pop to the shops tomorrow for last minute bits and bobs (I KNOW how bad it will be). I realised a couple of days ago that as I'm going to giving presents in person this year, I need to buy wrapping paper. Usually people wrap for me because I'm not here. What a difference!
Tomorrow I'm also popping round to the parents to help decorated their tree. It's been so long since I did this with them :-D
If you're celebrating, how are your Christmas plans going?
And if you're not a Christmas person, what are your plans while we worship Santa?
I've been working from home due to the amazingly awful cold. Still hoping that I'll be better in time to enjoy Christmas. Mum and I both got hit, so we've been commiserating a lot. And being really annoyed with dad, who gave it to us. Argh.
Yesterday was a very, very long working day. Boss and I spent hours trying to track down a bug in a thing we were trying to do. It's a function I re-wrote from MSSQL into Postgres and a part of me was very worried I'd fucked it up. Hours of tracing, comparing data, several dozen spreadsheets proved that nope. The bug has always existed in the function. At least for the last eight years, anyway. Nobody had ever noticed that the function wasn't behaving as intended. We spotted it because we were doing the process that used it for the first time (chap who usually does it is on holiday) so we were being super paranoid about validating the results.
We suspect he's never validated the results or he would have noticed this before *sigh*
It didn't show up in my testing due for really good reasons that are too complicated to explain, but totally suck. I feel less guilty now.
Anyway, boss and I worked until 7pm last night (boss hinted at 5pm that I was done for the day, but I stayed and kept working it with him because I knew I wouldn't have been able to rest, an effort that hasn't gone unnoticed :-D ) and found the issue, confirmed it definitely this morning, and are now waiting on higher-ups to decide what they want us to do. Neither of us intend to cancel our holiday to fix this.
So, hopefully at 5pm I'll be done for the year and then I can relax!
Still have stuff to do. I need to pop to the shops tomorrow for last minute bits and bobs (I KNOW how bad it will be). I realised a couple of days ago that as I'm going to giving presents in person this year, I need to buy wrapping paper. Usually people wrap for me because I'm not here. What a difference!
Tomorrow I'm also popping round to the parents to help decorated their tree. It's been so long since I did this with them :-D
If you're celebrating, how are your Christmas plans going?
And if you're not a Christmas person, what are your plans while we worship Santa?
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Date: 2018-12-22 10:46 am (UTC)