Time for a change I have been struggling for a long time with gut issues and bad sleep. Part of it may be due to stress, part is genetics, and part is my lifestyle, I’m sure. After many doctors and tests over the past seven years, I’m trying a few more different things. For one, cutting out almost all gluten from my diet for six months on the advice of the GP....
Some more cleaning up whilst waiting for projects to start More cleanup at work this week. I’ve been going through all of the SQL databases on the servers we manage, listing all of the users that have db_owner permission, and trying to work out if they actually need that permission by asking the person actually responsible for the database. I’ve moved quite a few users from db_owner to data reader, data writer, ddl admin, and a custom role to allow execution of stored procedures....
A bit of a slow, distracted week Working from home is difficult when your work is not that engaging. I admit, a fair bit of time at home spent playing Metroid:Zero Mission and Don’t Starve Together. Both games have very interesting puzzles. As for my actual work, well a lot of dealing with standard tickets again. We failed over our SQL Data Warehouse on the weekend to help with some hardware issues....
Two weeks in a row. What problem have I been trying to solve at Youi this week? What I’ve been doing I’ll try to focus on my profession this time. The week has been a little quiet. There are some big projects on the horizon, but many of them require us to wait until more IT development has been done. Until we know what we are needed for, we can only prepare theoretically....
So many false starts with my health and career development. I will try create a regular habit to write here. What I’ve been doing The aim is to write about whatever problem I’m trying to solve at work, whether I think it’s interesting or not, as well as new habits I’m trying, and interesting things I’ve baked. We’ll see what comes up. What has actually happened since 2020-05-02? Well, I finally got those in-person cello lessons, and I actually passed my grade 3 exam the other week....