Thursday 23rd Feb 2006

Time 11:50 pm

The whole day I just dozed around. Nothing much I could do. You have this hangover and I think its termed as long conference bridge hangover. I feel as if I am drugged...like you are half asleep and half awake. Wifey comes around every interval and plants a kiss or two. I sleep till like 3:00 pm. Wake up and have lunch. I would say kind of lunch. Rice noodle with sweet coconut soup. Head off to bed again. I wake up at 8:00 pm. Wifey has prepared some soft pancakes and lentil soup. Stomped like 12 pancakes. Finally called my colleague P at 9:00 pm. He updated me about the next POA. So yeah...same thing continues...get onto bridge and start all the blah blah about network optimization. This time the vendor has an answer. We apply the the fix and lo-behold the problem seems to have suppressed for the time being. This is good news for me. I don't have to hang around for long. So I just dropped off the bridge. I will hit the sack soon. I have to be on the bridge again at 8:00 am. Will kep you guys posted on my ordinary life again tomorrow.

Thursday Feb 23 2006

My actual day started yesterday. Got called by my colleague P to work on an existing problem. Jumped onto a conference bridge at around 10:00 pm. I am all confused, since I have no clue as to where I am going to start with. I have couple of people on the bridge and they expect me to drive the bridge. I fumble a bit. I don't like scenarios where I have no clue as to whats going on. I send some IMs to my other colleague and she provides me with some update. This seems like a vendor issue. I need to escalate this to the vendor. I was told that the vendor was supposed to be present on the bridge. All hell breaks loose, since I cannot locate them. Everyone is IMing me and shooting questions at me.

I wake up higher management and they all look confused too. Finally get an answer from the vendor. It seems the management had agreed that the vendor won't be providing support during this activity. So I am all screwed here. Finally things start trickling. I am able to grasp the situation and take on the game. Its 9:00 am now. The problem is still unresolved. My colleague has joined the bridge. I will drop off.