I took the day off from work because I’m still sick.  Last night I had a fever and bad sore throat with swollen glands.  I’ve been thinking it was “strep” but Liz keeps insisting its just a cold.  I can’t believe she keeps disrespecting the virus and calling it just a cold.

In any case I’ve been resting this morning.  Liz went off to do some errands — I guess she’s doing better than I am.  While she was gone the groceries arrived, work called, Grace had to be fed.  Now that everyone’s fed and Grace is ostensibly napping its time for me to do something I promised work I would do.

Its a data load job.  Earlier this week I modified all the user master records to reflect what we had in the human resources (PeopleSoft) system.  So people’s names reflected their actual names.  Unfortunately, at some point in the past a programer throught it was a good idea to pull only a person’s first name and put it on a purchase order.  So for the last seven years people have been putting both their first name and their last name in the field marked “First Name”.  Its not like there isn’t an additional field called “Last Name” — its there.  The programmer just decided to only use First Name.

So now I have to go back and populate everyone’s first name with both their first and last name values.  It shouldn’t take long to modify the excel spreadsheet using the concatenate command, but I wish I didn’t have to do it.

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