Hardcore debugging

On my way into work I was going down Northup Way. A truck turned out from AM/PM and sat across two lanes because of the traffic and the red light ahead. I would have been mad, but I was going to use the turn lane. He was stopped there and talking on his cell phone. I started to go around the nose of his truck into the turn lane and he decided it would be a good time to use that same turn lane. I was expecting that. So when he started to go for me I hit the gas and my Hemi quickly got me out of danger. HEMI!

While at work I noticed the E-mail's from the Secondary Marketer were getting sent out now. I checked the HTML attachment. This was my first chance to look at it. It looked good except for an errant table tag. So I looked into it. I realized the HTML was not all getting sent. So I spent a large portion of the day running down the problem. I had to check through four store procedures, three different database tables, and one webpage. It took a long time to slowly go through line by line to figure out where data was going and where the problem was happening. I went through and finally saw where it was being striped. I then looked into the last store procedure. I saw a variable was made too small. I made it larger and it worked. It was great to get that solved.

Then I had to deal with two other issues. One of them was simply adding a check or a default contact on the secondary marketer before a link would work. That was a simple one. The last one was when a default contact is changed on a secondary marketer the old default contact had to be logically be de-ranked from default contact. The problem was with my logic. It would de-rank all the default contacts for all loan officers and not just the one I wanted it de-ranked for. This was a simple fix for the most part.

I went to Safeway for lunch and checked my Mega Millions ticket. I was not a winner. So I bought five bucks worth for Friday's drawing that is worth one hundred and fifty million dollars. I would be happy with that. I figure at fifty percent the winner would take a lump sum of seventy five million. Then another third off the top in taxes puts the take home to about fifty million. I think I could live on that.

My mom was worried about my trip to Pullman. Two people died due to bad road conditions and she is worried about me traveling. I told her I would be careful.