Day ThirtyOne (Thirty)

[This belongs to Day Thirty]

Rise and shine at 5.20 am. Actually I had slept a bit irregulary, probably worried I would miss the alarm clock? Into the car for the "short trip", arrived well in time at 9.05 am. No queues or other hinderances on the motorways, even though I passed the "three point area" (3 towns in east Jutland) during rush hour.

The work went well. First a little consulting about this and that, then a "firedrill" (see if the backups actually were usefull in restoring the database). We finished ahead of time, just around lunchtime. So after lunch they had "a small intriguing question". Yes, the question was small and on appearance easy - but it proved very intriguing indeed! The solution when I finally found it (after a good hours work with plenty of aids from a few colleagues via mail and phone) was just one small command, and the problem went away. I learned a new feature/trick of Oracle that day.

2.48 pm in the car, homeward bound, arrived 6.30 pm (occasional queues and congestions on the motorway)

At home a minor catastrophy awaited - the internet connection was gone. Either the router had given up or a fault elsewhere in the central. I twiddled with the obvious things, and after a half hour the line was up. All well. A few hours later it dropped out again, came back a while later ... Unfortunatly the support for the ISP was closed for the day.