On the ROPS again...

How much fun are these ROPS deployments? Now I know what you guys were talking about. I think we are about 16 hours behind schedule now. The good news is that we are just one End Of Day Rules Engine run and an export/transfer/import away from having Status Tracker back online. Then that's the end of the bloody operational On Hand reports running from the reporting database. Hallelujah!!!

The bad news is that the schedule slipped five hours and no one told me, so here I am at 3 am on the blog instead on the grog or asleep. Oh well, at least the others will be rested when they come in later.

I took a walk down George St at 2 am - would have thought I was on Oxford St from the number of people & cars. The city sure has changed from a few years back.





I had a great holiday break with the family. We were down the beach quite a bit and visited with Davina's family in Newcastle for a week. That was very relaxing as we had many sets of hands to help with the kids. They love the attention and had a bit of withdrawal when we got back home.

Cyrus is 3 now and really got into Christmas this year. It's fun to share their excitement.



Lara is the action adventure girl. Talk about living up to your name. I'm not quite sure how we ended up with Lara as a name for her - Davina (she who must be obeyed) probably has some reasoning, but as far as I can recollect that was just one of the last ones on the short list that we had been talking about.



Anyway, Lara has no fear and walks straight out into the waves until she gets knocked down. After we help her up and move her towards the shore, she turns around and heads right back out into the waves until they knock her down again! She'll do it for as long as we are at the beach smiling and giggling the whole time.


I might catch a few winks before it's time for the DataStage section of this project.

Looking forward to a few posts from the rest of you to hear how your holidays went.

Cheers, George