Another day at the office. The key to problem resolution is being a consultant. You get paid either way. If you make the problem worse you can claim bad infrastructure, the staff were lead badly, conditioned wrong, no training and generally anything that says I could have saved you, IF you had called me sooner. (Define sooner! When we called you we were fine! At least we had 3 servers that worked!)

However you know deep down just like the Captain on the Titanic after she struck ice. You can understand the first word to his mind, let me give you a hint, it was not “GREAT GOOGLEY MOOGLELY!” but something I can’t write here. You know when you hear the ice crack and the hull creak, that your dayhas just taken a hit! So stay in school kids, be a consultant.

In reality when you own the problem because you picked up the phone, well you know the only excuse may not help you in the future. Personally I find running out of the room screaming like a little girl can be wonderful. Doesn’t do much for your career as a manager, but can break the tension. Another topic for my therapist.

Speaking of little girls, we had an ultra sound today to determine gender. The good news is my wife can’t get ticked at me for having another person who pee’s on the wall’s, the floor and everything else. Yes that’s right folks we are having a sit down peer! It’s a GIRL! I have no idea what that means to our world, other than REM had it right. “Its the end of the world as we know it!”

So the week is over and we can now relax, yeah right!