Take it slow

I was feeling pretty good today, and my mind was very clear. as a result, I diud too much at work and wore myself out. I was able to clean up a data model that I will be updating in the future with new tables. In reviewing the model, I saw that it was in VERY BAD SHAPE. So I contacted our technical lead, and asked permission to clean it up. He was happy to allow this. I figured out a way to do it very quickly and easily.

As a group, we have needed a way to work independently of a common repository of data models, so we could work at home, and then upload our changes to the repository and have it sync up our file with the structure of the data model in the repository, and do version control as well. The obvious way to do this in our toolset does not work. It allows the update, but you lose all your versioning, and many other serious losses. It took me 3 hours of study and experimentation to figure out how to do it. This is what I used to routinely do (5 years ago) and it felt good to be able to do it again. The 3 hours was not at a leisurely pace - I was working fast. If I had done it at a comfortable pace, it would have taken 2 days. I wrote up a tutorial and published it to the team.

Then I went home - very tired.

I bought an umbrella to keep in my laptop case so I would not be caught running in the rain again. I also retrofitted a plastic bag to fit over my laptop case when I use the extended handle and wheels on the bottom of the case. I bought a scale, too. Now that I am 280 LBS, using a scale at home is reasonable. At that weight, it won't be accurate for very long because my weight will compress the spring that is the active mechanism in the scale. But I will continue to lose weight. And the scale was on sale.