And On This Farm He Had A Blog

"Traffic has been light enough that I can do 90 on US-11. This isa good omen. I will open and editor as soon as I get into the office and get a bunch of stuff knocked out today!"

Reality hit as soon as I pulled into the lot.

Multifunction printer's toner collection cartridge is full. People are at a literal stand still. Standing and staring at it. "Do something", they say.

"Has anyone called the copier service guy? We pay for a service contract. I don't have time to mess with this."

"No"

"Then, I dunno..maybe DO SO"

Call is placed and they hand ME the phone. Copier service guy cannot get another unit delivered until Monday. So, I grab a trash bag, the air compressor hose and a screwdriver.

20 minutes and a garbage bag half full of used toner later I sit down in front of a keyboard only to find a pile of "Please call <x> immediately" messages.

I'm not going to get a damned thing done today.

Ahhh..

When you tongue in cheek ask yourself if the office manager of a certain customer is on drugs..

Only to be called by the one who replaced her..because arrested on a drug charge.

@larand There are a couple of Aston Martins around here that cost that much. I just have to shake my head when I see them go by.

If you spend any time driving in Tennessee, you'd understand why.

// @kdfrawg

@kdfrawg I could have 20 million in the bank and still wouldn't pay that much for a car (that isn't going in a climate controlled garage after restoration to appreciate in value)

It's insane.

@kdfrawg Yeah..

Sidekick had a discussion about this subject once.

Just because you "can" doesn't mean you "should".

The "grew up rural and in poverty" part of me will recoil at sticker prices like that regardless of what sits in the bank.

@larand I've decided that if we ever do that, they will be gathered into a group and herded out to the warehouse to work.

A large man in a Viking helmet beating a drum in steady cadence for them to keep pace with.

Teach them what they have to look forward to in the coming years if they don't work hard and pick the right major in college.

@streakmachine I'm avoiding it like a stranger in a dark alley because I am so busy right now and I know what would happen if I bought it.

// @matigo @whoisashygirl

…to give an illustration how bad the Postgres situation was..

To post a batch of 1000 completed invoices (requisite journal, history and open item changes) took MySQL a little under one second on a Pentium 866Mhz box.

With a dirty Postgres database, it took over an hour.

// @streakmachine @jws @kdfrawg

@jws In our case, it was because the older versions of Postgres would quickly lose the ability to use indices on oft-changed tables. This, of course, meant the query engine would be reduced to sequential searches. The only way you could fix it was by running VACUUM ANALYZE which could take forever and a day on large databases. Then, it would run great until it "got dirty" from insertions and deletions and you had to do it again.

Contrasting that with "Works with no performance degradation for years on end" made the decision to use MySQL a lot easier. Wasn't all sunshine and roses though because, at the time, MySQL was nowhere near Postgres in terms of features.

NOTE: This was sixteen years ago. I understand it is leagues better now but that experience really soured me on Postgres.

// @streakmachine @kdfrawg

Cracks knuckles at 01:28 and prepares to go back into the salt mines