Today I have been mostly interrupted ...

Well, I would have got the sales spreadsheet done if people hadn't kept ringing me up this morning to update prices on the existing database. We haven't had a purchasing manager for a couple of months now and the new chap doesn't start till next week, so it will be a while before he gets up to speed. When people ask me what the cost of maintenance on an ImageRAID is, or whether it counts as a server or a scanner all I can do is make whale noises at them.

This afternoon I got a request for a report out of our scheduling system. One of the divisional managers isn't just interested in what his team have been doing, he wants to see every single bit of activity for April and May for all booking types and contracts. It's easy enough to set up the report but Wallchart's notoriously inefficient client-server architecture makes the whole thing run like a dog over my VPN connection and it takes an hour and a half to run, pulling back over six thousand transactions.

Fun fun fun.

In other news, my two casks of Bombadier bitter have arrived and the first glass was sampled on the patio in the last half hour and I can exclusively reveal that it is spanking gorgeous.

Excuse me while I go and get drunk ...