Entries this day: work

work

6:02pm CST Tuesday 18 December 2001

Entirely prepared to test all the G3 projects, but as I was preparing, our T1 line went dead. Fuck. So I spent over an hour on the phone with Amy at our isp (SAVVIS, who is soon to be our ex-isp) who had me try to ping and traceroute different shit, but to no avail.

During this time I had to cancel lunch with Jason, which sucks because we had to cancel yesterday, and he's busy tomorrow. I think we'll get to go on Thursday.

I maintained my sanity by chilling at lunch with peeps in the break room. By the time lunch was over, the problem was fixed. Something on SAVVIS's end. I don't know what yet. They don't know what yet; I just called them to ask.

So we're back online, and I showed Erika how to help me test the G3 projects, and then a client wanted to kick off their survey now, so I was on the phone with him for an hour and five minutes showing him how all the shit worked, and it was all good, and we just sent out 18 emails to participants in the class, and 2 bounced, 4 gave out of office replies. 66% success rate. Whatever.

Another survey is supposed to go online soon. I feel trapped (?).. scrambling to keep up. I don't seem to write code and be project manager at the same time very effectively. And I'm hungry. When is dinner?