Just A Quick Note:

Comrades!

As you may recall from the last bit of drivel I’m stationed at San Diego’s Omnipresent Charitable Organization’s Far Eastern Outpost this week. You may also recall that I’m here to install a software system. What you may not know is that I’ve been relying on the direction and advice of the software vendor to get it all running in time for a launch in two days.

That turns out not to have been a good idea.

Some people there said one thing only to be contradicted by other people until still others chimed in with their own opinions. This isn’t “whether to change the background from blue to green” stuff. I was hoping that they could help me with fundamental functionality and configuration questions. Some of their best minds came together but sadly the sum of those intellects failed to be any higher than any discreet individual involved in those conversations. I’m in a pickle ladies and gentlemen.

Do I scrap the launch date until I can go back and do what I had originally planned (which took weeks)? Hell no! my many bosses say. “Let’s revert back to your plan and fix all the mess tomorrow morning, configure it in the afternoon, and keep our launch date of Friday! It’ll be fine!”

Fine for whom?

Oh, that’s what I thought…

Your best (and almost tiredest) pal in the whole wide world,

bob