Good morning, Hubski!

The office is buzzing with excitement as middle-tier offshore hands have migrated to get in-house training for our application. I have the privilege of hearing the whole session from my cube, thank god for headphones.

My neck of the woods is a little deep. We pushed our latest build last week which marks a special box for the managers who keep track of that sort of thing. They believe that this latest build will be the last bit of code we push out remotely until next year. I'm not that optimistic, but expectations are expectations.

I've got about 5 tickets on my plate all data cleanup in some form or another. We've scrapped our previous replication engine that we invested hundreds of man-hours into for a streamlined solution that is much more automated, much more efficient, and much more mysterious. I wasn't exactly sad to see all the blood, sweat and tears get tossed in the trash over the period of the last four months, exchanged for a new black box that I know nothing about but I will say I'm a little less whole now that my speciality was taken away.

That being said, I feel my technical value has diminished significantly. To be fair though theres only one man in the company who knows how the new system works, its his baby and subsequently his problem. Alas, I still have my tickets. My value I suppose comes from the fact I can fix nearly any bug in the system (replication aside) and have nearly a complete knowledge of our schema how the relations work in our database.

Seems like the rest of my day will waiting for backups to complete so we can move past the politics and get a few of these tickets out of the way. A couple of gigs over a satellite network always seems to take quite a while. Time to sip the coffee while its still hot!

So hubski, what are you working on today?