A Productive Day

I started with something I've been putting off for ages, namely giving the dog a bath. He has been a little, shall we say fragrant recently, but he trotted upstairs without complaining and endured the shampoo before running outside to shake and dry off. After that I wiped the floors and put some washing on, before getting my first caffeine fix of the day and settling down to some work.

The first call was to tell me that the users were locked out of our time management software with a message about reregistering the database. I emailed the software house for a key, and told them that for some reason it was showing as us having used 6300% of our resource licence allocation. Shome mishtake shurely? The fix arrived and it was easier to paste it straight into the table than running the script that they had sent me.

Next, I have to think about documenting the year end procedure on the asset register system which should be straightforward, and then find a way to transfer some of the spreadsheets that the contract management bods use into a sql table so that they can all update them if necessary. It's only a stop gap until we get the new system up and running in the next six months, but it should be a useful data collection exercise.

Lunchtime, and the second procrastinated job. I went out and bought a new lawn mower - a slightly better model than the last one that we had that happened to be on special offer at B&Q - and this one has a handy doohicky for winding up the cable when you have finished too. Reading the instructions it recommends mowing the lawn twice a week during the growing season. Dream on, Mr Flymo instruction writing dude. It will get mowed when I feel like it and when the sun is out - the chances of the two occurring simultaneously more than once a month being fairly remote I would have thought.

Seeing as it was all quiet on the work front, I walked to school with the dog to pick Master Dogwood up. It's dry enough in the field at the moment to take the shortcut, and it doesn't take all that much longer than going in the car.

Right, incoming work, so I'd better post this and get on with it.