The Weekly Wrap-Up: August 8-12, 2016
You know how you can go a whole week without any interruptions or emergencies or interrupting emergencies that turn into three-hour meetings and then at 3 o'clock on Friday suddenly everyone needs your input on something?
Yeah. That happened.
(That's why this wasn't done earlier. You should thank me for staying late to get this written. I'll preemptively thank you.)
So the first part of my week was pretty straightforward. We have a bunch of old files that people still use because they haven't updated the translation yet, or it's somewhere in the process. But many of those files had watermarks or were not secure. This is pretty easy work, but there were about 1,500 files to correct, so it takes some time.
Once the files are secure, I had to replace all of the old files with the new ones in our download program. Again, not difficult, just time consuming.
I took some time to clean off my desk this week. Apparently (as my coworker told me), a clean desk is a sign of a sick mind. But sometimes you just have to get rid of some things. It's still not really up to my usual standards, but I can live with it for a little while longer.
We're still having app trouble. I spent most of the rest of this week trying to sort out tags, finding duplicates, deleting bad tags, and generally pulling my hair out at the mess.
Fortunately, I've been able to let the Olympics play in the background while I work. I admit, I took about fifteen nail-biting minutes off today to watch the U.S. women's soccer team lose terribly in penalty kicks. (I like the British commentators best. They are very soothing.)
The big emergency today was not actually an emergency in that it's something we've talked about for months but finally decided we should probably actually do something about. It was actually helpful to have this conversation because we have a new feature that I knew nothing about, and now I can offer it to people and they can stop asking me questions I don't have the answer to.
(I'm watching sailing now. There's no commentary, so I have no idea what is happening. They look like little sharks from overhead. There's a horn that keep sounding. I can only assume one boat is telling another to get out of its way. Seriously, how does anyone know what is going on? Oh wait! I think they were lining up! Someone just counted down, which generally means something is about to start. Now my question is, how is it fun to hang off the side of a boat surrounded by 20 other boats?)
Whatever. I'm gonna go now. I have a whole weekend ahead of me.
:D
Yeah. That happened.
(That's why this wasn't done earlier. You should thank me for staying late to get this written. I'll preemptively thank you.)
So the first part of my week was pretty straightforward. We have a bunch of old files that people still use because they haven't updated the translation yet, or it's somewhere in the process. But many of those files had watermarks or were not secure. This is pretty easy work, but there were about 1,500 files to correct, so it takes some time.
Once the files are secure, I had to replace all of the old files with the new ones in our download program. Again, not difficult, just time consuming.
I took some time to clean off my desk this week. Apparently (as my coworker told me), a clean desk is a sign of a sick mind. But sometimes you just have to get rid of some things. It's still not really up to my usual standards, but I can live with it for a little while longer.
We're still having app trouble. I spent most of the rest of this week trying to sort out tags, finding duplicates, deleting bad tags, and generally pulling my hair out at the mess.
Fortunately, I've been able to let the Olympics play in the background while I work. I admit, I took about fifteen nail-biting minutes off today to watch the U.S. women's soccer team lose terribly in penalty kicks. (I like the British commentators best. They are very soothing.)
The big emergency today was not actually an emergency in that it's something we've talked about for months but finally decided we should probably actually do something about. It was actually helpful to have this conversation because we have a new feature that I knew nothing about, and now I can offer it to people and they can stop asking me questions I don't have the answer to.
(I'm watching sailing now. There's no commentary, so I have no idea what is happening. They look like little sharks from overhead. There's a horn that keep sounding. I can only assume one boat is telling another to get out of its way. Seriously, how does anyone know what is going on? Oh wait! I think they were lining up! Someone just counted down, which generally means something is about to start. Now my question is, how is it fun to hang off the side of a boat surrounded by 20 other boats?)
Whatever. I'm gonna go now. I have a whole weekend ahead of me.
:D