June 23, 2005

Updates?

So the Spam 'bots are back. 200+ comments linking to...enhancement products.

This provided the opportunity to figure out how to edit the database directly.

Ah, there's the browsable list. Sort by comment author, check them all, delete. About five minutes total.

Now the slightly shortened post:

With Tuesday the Summer Solstice, and a low full moon last night, Lissa threw a picnic in St. Charles. There were a dozen or fifteen or so in attendance. Perfect weather and a good time. A late night we wouldn't have minded being later. The moon didn't come up until we were home.

Work is odd this week. For starters there's the new 9-6 hours, which I don't like. Monday they need me 7-4. Crappy early morning, but at least bonus time with Amy and Jareth when I get home. [note to self: Don't make plans for Monday!]

I'm also spending much of this week working on the database at work. Maybe as many as 11% of the records in it are duplicate listings. There's one caller with six separate records. Each of those has 1-5 calls in it. Yeah, try to figure that out on the fly while he's on the phone and you're trying to make sense of what's been said so far...

There's also a couple projects I'm doing because I'm the only one who knows Access. I can create a hundred new customers in under an hour, instead of spending all day data-entering them.

So last night was very cool. Tonight we're doing dinner at Lindsay's new apartment, since Amy didn't get to see it during move-in. Saturday is the next Shadowrun session, which I'm looking forward to. Sunday we build the free swingset/slide we got free on Tuesday.

The custom coach company has a couple other prospects they're interviewing, and are waiting to see how those do before taking more.

So that's the update for now. I have a stack of articles and notes for things I'm planning on commenting on, including the Kane County Forest Preserve and universal access to broadband, among a couple others I don't remember off the top of my head.

Hey, regular updates for a while? ...Could happen. <shrug>

Posted by fictionman at June 23, 2005 07:45 AM | TrackBack (0)
Comments