What a Day

Hello all,

Well, this has been a fine day. One of the projects I have been working on for over two months is going into the toilet and I really don't know what I can do about it. I try to keep my team up to date on what I know. I was in a meeting from 12:00 until 4:00. I helped my teammate Steve Brown out for a few minutes on a SENDSOD problem and then I decided to head home at 5:00.

I stopped at the store to buy some stir fry meat for dinner and then made dinner for the family. In case you were wondering, it was fantastic. I was putting the dishes away when I noticed my phone was blinking. I checked it. I was shocked to find that I had missed 5 pages since 6:15 PM. It was already 6:45. Amy had paged me twice and Outage Management had paged me three times.

I called Amy. She was not happy that I had not answered any of the pages. I joined the call and tried to help. I was caught completely off guard tonight. My mind has been on SODS, Datamaster and 20 other things. I could not remember my password for the windows gateway server. What a mess....

The call concluded at 7:20. I did not contribute one thing to the effort. If it had been a SODS outage, I would have been able to jump right in and resolve any issue. Now I get the night to think about tomorrow and how Amy will want an explanation for not answering her request for help.

What a Day.

-Andy