Blue Monday

Do they get any bluer than this? What a day...! Every now and then, you get a really bad day thrown at you, and you think to yourself "Well, that's over now. Tomorrow will be better", and it generally is. But what happens when the bad days start outnumbering the good, and one bad week starts rolling into the next.

Yup, without sounding like I'm complaining, I'm really getting tired of the string of bad luck I seem to be having. If its not another developer resigning, and putting project delivery into jeopardy, its an underperforming sales person, or an irate customer, annoyed that his project is late. Today - a leased line that went down, affecting the biggest ecommerce website in the country for 5 hours, and me at the other end of the line. Whilst it was not my teams fault, we maintain and support the site, so any issues are directed at my team. We managed to get it sorted out in the end, but not before cancelling 4 meetings during the course of the morning, and effectively having to catch it all up again. Thats the thing with problems like this - they never occur in isolation - everything affects everything else, and all you end up doing, is running from one issue to the next. Its like I need a big pause button to hit, bringing everything to a halt whilst I catch up. The days are numbered I fear.

So there you have it - the crisis of the day. Who knows what tomorrow holds in store. In a way, maybe its a good thing that the really big issues hit the fan on a Monday, because the Tuesday thru Friday issues can only be smaller.

Off to beat the crap out of a "double yellow dot" squash ball.