Goodbye part-time hours, it was nice knowing you Well, I enjoyed my two weeks of working half-days and going for long walks, but it’s back to regular hours. Interestingly, I was probably more than 50% productive with only 50% of the hours. It’s easier to focus for a shorter day, I think. I’m sure there is some optimal point in that curve. So, this week’s work was mostly a continuation of all the things I had started on during the previous fortnight....
Second week of part-time work Even though I was not on task-allocation duty this week, my second week of working 4 hour days seemed to have just as much admin work as last week. Still, I made progress on a few a important things. We’ve worked to reduce our nightly error list again, and I loaded some more tickets for bad data in the source system causing import errors. I was finally able to alter the necessary tables to change one of our column types to BIGINT in production, and then copy the Change Automation data from the test server so that our Octopus deploy wouldn’t lock the tables for hours again - the migration scripts were already flagged as done....
First week of part-time work So, I’ve now spent a week only working 4 hours a day instead of 8. It’s been pretty nice to not wake up to an alarm, start late, and finish my work on 2 PM. It’s given me more time for exercising, baking, and Warhammer painting, to name a few. I don’t know if I’m actually sleeping better, or my stomach feels any better, but it’s a much nicer state, mentally....
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....