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Fri, Feb 10 2012 5:58 AM (34 replies)

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WGTicon

12,511 Posts

Thu, Feb 9 2012 11:48 AM

Database maintenance which could not be done with games going on.

-wgticon

duffer19

3,670 Posts

Thu, Feb 9 2012 12:03 PM

Lizzie!!

I enjoy each of your posts more than the last! and i loved the first one I ever read. Where's that leave me? Over the moon? This post is amazing and I appreciate everything about it!

just terrific and glad you had a safe snow-less trip home

godelescher

636 Posts

Thu, Feb 9 2012 12:35 PM

LizzieRossetti:

I think you are right Born.

I happened to be called to the village Post office to take a telephony conversation today, it was at almost exactly ten to eleven by the hall clock because it's been stuck at that time since the "Lavinia" years and Lambert refuses to fetch Lorenc the jeweler to fix it, or at least move the hands occasionally.

The journey was more or less uneventful to a degree but I didn't let that stop me. Everywhere I looked there was no snow and no traffic was blocked despite how things might have been had there been any, which there wasn't.

The postmistress, Milly was eager to show me how to work the confounded machine but she still glared at me in a most malifiscious way when I began to hum "Milly Molly Mandy" just over my breath, but only because I know it annoys her but that's her fault for selling me some ice poles that tasted of vinegar twenty two years and sixty one days ago.

After plugging me into everything, and picking up another hand piece so that the old bat could listen in ( She says it's all about security what with walls having ears, loose lips sinking ships and iron railings being stolen from the houses leading down to the well on beach lane) anyway, after that, I could hear through some crackles and pops my good and very rich friend Spielberg wittering away inside the beastly machine.

After some confusion during which a friend of Milly (Molly Mandy ha ha) wanted some tripe for her husband and the boys and a trotter for the dog, but instead was invited to listen in to Spielberg which resulted in him telling Flo ( the tripe buying lady) what he actually wanted to tell me, I eventually got things sorted out and his voice from the device told me all he wanted me to know.

When questioned about whether he knew anything about goings on in the colonies ( I had been worried, that's why I asked) he told me and I believed him, that every one was making preparations for some sort of Tea Party to which inexplicably I had not been invited. As an aside he also mentioned that a friend of his niece had overheard a man on a ladder shouting to a lady in her backyard who his niece thought had said she had heard it from her husbands bosses seamstress, that someone else had mentioned that someone had seen a man with a broom sweeping the steps at wgt. So you see, this is what I would categorically term "routine" maintenance, just like you said.

I was so pleased with this little snippet of excitement that I cried aloud " Barry Spielberg! Oh you are a wonder! Do you know, I bet Mio will be asking about just this later today!"

On reflection it is just as well I cried aloud otherwise he might not have heard me, and the sentiment would have been wasted, which I always think is such a shame.

Of course by roughly ten to eleven (by the hall clock) the whole village knew of the call and I had impulse purchased a ball of string which was set out on a lovely and enticing display stand by the post office counter.

There was once again no snow on my return home.

I hope this clarifies things.

Lizzie xx

At the risk of sounding rude, I'd like to clear up a few points.

First, Milly (Molly Mandy) was not responsible for the vinegary taste of the ice poles, and though she would not thank you kindly for not disseminating the untrue rumor that she received said poles in the very same state, it's still unfair to imply that the flavor was anything more than a salad tossing mishap and certainly not the result of any malicious intent. But that's neither here nor there.

As for your friend's friend's niece eavesdropping on the ladderman's conversation (which was not shouted BTW) with the lady in her backyard about what she heard from her husband's boss' seamstress hearing something about someone seeing a man with a broom (it was a dust mop, this is how rumors get started) sweeping the steps at wgt - He was tending to the chair rail in the lobby; at least that's what the receptionist said to Aloisius, a contractor hired to restore the antique carousel horses at the decidedly ramshackle amusement park on the outskirts that had recently been purchased by Six Flags, after he called to say "hi" because he was in the neighborhood buying sandpaper, and wanted to know if she was free for lunch - she wasn't. At least that's what he said later when he mentioned it to the park maintenance guy who was helping with the horses who then mentioned it to his wife who then told her friend Gladys who was standing right next to me - and I heard her entire half of the conversation.

Regardless, it sounds routine. Just wanted to clear up those points. Not snowing here either.

duffer19

3,670 Posts

Thu, Feb 9 2012 1:07 PM

Bravo!!

MioKontic

4,654 Posts

Thu, Feb 9 2012 3:04 PM

Lizzie

In absence of any response from Icon, it is much appreciated that your friend Spielberg heard the whispers that came from San Fransisco, possibly via China, to our good selves - and we are good I must hasten to add; I myself am good, and you yourself are good, so there's the plural explained - our good selves here in our united kingdom of... well, United Kingdom.

I would, however, very much like to understand what 'routine maintenance' actually is. Tidying up the servers? If so, of what? Of maybe fixing bugs? If so, which ones? And does this mean new bugs were introduced? If so, which ones? We will find out eventually, so we might as well be told now. Or is this like a treasure hunt? But without clues!

Speaking of bugs, I know one which wasn't fixed, and that is what has now most commonly come to be known as the 'spin bug'. Before today I had never seen it. Maybe that's because I don't often play shots with full bs (that's backspin, not the other bs, although there's times when it feels like the other bs). But today, in a friendly game with a recent WGT friend acquisition, namely Sdorr, I did proceed, as one would (except Sdorr because he didn't know, but still managed to avoid the tree), to play the tee shot on the 4th hole with full bs (as well as aiming in the right rough and hitting early) in order to not hit the tree which has been so equivocally positioned to catch any unsuspecting drive with admirable efficiency. Anyway, it happened; no I didn't hit the tree, but rather than the ball climbing high into the air, it stayed very low. And this was after concessions on the previous hole.

And finally, snow. We were due to have a huge snowfall here this evening, but so far it has only been rain. So once again our superb weather forecasters... have got it wrong. It must be great to have a job where it is total guesswork, you are less than 50% right, yet you seem to have a job for life.

MioKontic

4,654 Posts

Thu, Feb 9 2012 3:25 PM

Oops, sorry Icon, didn't see your reply. I would then like to ask though, what database maintenance? I mean, you (WGT) don't clear disabled accounts or clear activity histories, so what other database maintenance is there to do?

EDIT: Actually, doesn't matter, I'm being too nosey.