At 9am I had a meeting with my workflow
administration group — we’re supposed to be coming up with standards
and policies and procedures that will govern how my company performs
the care and feeding of the SAP Workflow system. We recently found out
that the VP of information technology was peaved with us for not being
more productive. So we had a lot to discuss and now I’m trying to
motivate my colleagues in to working harder. It was a stressful
meeting.
After that we had a kick-off meeting for the First Responders. I’ve
taken some basic first aid and CPR instruction at work and now the
company wants to set us up as “first responders”. They gave us a first
aid kit in a fanny pack and showed us around the building to see where
the equipment is. All this took two hours.
Ugh.
Anyway, its done now. I had to cut out a little early so I could go to
my dentist appointment at 12:15pm. Kathy, my hygenist is so nice and so
good at her job! She’s a sweetie. I took the opportunity to bring a
Baja Burrito from Baja Fresh back to my desk at work.
By then it was time for my weekly team meeting. This time we got to see
a new monitoring product called Horizon from Tidal Software. It looks
pretty great and could enable us to be a lot more proactive in our
problem resolution. If only we can round up the $30k!
That took an hour.
Finally I had a meeting at 3pm with the server team — I need the UNIX
guys to install Kerberos on a test machine so I can get SAP’s Single
Sign On functionality working. Our parent company has some instructions
but they were originally written in another language by a college
student and its difficult to read. The UNIX team wants me to provide
them with clear, step by step instructions, which I can’t. So I’m
trying to convince them to work through it. I think they’ll come
through for me.
At last I was able to place a couple of personal calls regarding the
new Odyssey. We’re taking posession of it on Thursday evening at 6pm. I
need to tell the insurance company what’s going on, too. And I need to
call the bank to get a certified check. Whew!! There’s a lot going on!

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