I am productive. Today is Saturday. I'm in Southern California. Why? Because my customer wishes to do a production migration. Starting at noon... I am to sit by and see if anything goes wrong. If it does, I fix it. So... I sat around for 8 hours and did nothing. Well, not really nothing: I've kept busy by updating the drivers for various hardware and software components on my laptop. Yeah, I did that. Exciting!

As it turns out, I left the customer site at 8pm, after 8 hours of nothing. My hotel is just a few blocks down the street so I figured they could call me if they had any problems. And they did. Not 45 minutes after I left - they called with 3 problems. So I showed back up at the customer site, and after 3 hours of discussing, looking, probing, debugging and being constantly bothered for status ("how's it going? when will it be done? what is wrong? what caused it? how will you fix it?")... it turned out that there were no problems and their test data was garbage. Imagine that.

At least the year and a half of work done to get to this point was not in vain. Of course, my customer could've exercised a little more care in the post implementation planning.

Anyway, it's done. 1:30am.

While sitting around, waiting to be released from production migration hell, i've managed to keep busy. I did what should