Re: off topic --> RE: Work vs marriage

Woops, sorry, did I say 'her' means Oracle 7.3.4 and onward?

Michael

• Original Message ----- From: "Michael Sun" <mikeny31_at_speakeasy.org> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 5:16 PM Subject: Re: off topic --> RE: Work vs marriage

> Without sounding too sendimental, I have simply forgotten how to live
> without her.
>
> Michael
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 11:36 AM
>
>
> I have a simple question:
>
> Why do some of you refer to your spouses as "the wife"?! It makes it
sound
> like you don't feel any attachment to her at all.
>
> Also, why was it "the wife's flowers"? Don't you live in that house too?
>
> Just curious, sometimes I wonder why people get married in the first
place.
> Peer pressure maybe? Maybe some men and women get married because they
want
> to fit in, not because they really care about each other for the long
term.
> Never mind the vows...
>
> Nobody seems to have picked up on this.
>
> I am a man, and I never refer to my wife as "the wife." It is
> disrespectful.
>
> Regards,
> Patrice Boivin
> Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 12:47 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
> Been there myself, and can relate.
>
> When I was Operations Manager, I had to coordinate the move of the
> data center, keep everyone pretty much ignorant that we had even moved,
and
> then provide the data side support of that move as the rest of the
> department, some 900+ people came to the new building. When they came to
the
> new building, they put their terminal on the moved desk, plugged into the
> wall, and they were up and running.
>
> IBM said it was the smoothest move they had seen in 10 years, and we
> broke the system down at 12:00 noon on Friday and were up 4PM on Sunday,
and
> only had about 32-64 users out of 255+ that had to wait till Monday
> afternoon to connect(bell tel had two bad lines). I had over 1,000 hours
of
> over time that year... Of course the state didn't pay, UNTIL they realized
> my taking "comp time" which I WAS entitled to would be almost 6 months.
Then
> they paid me. Was nice for that year, but needless to say a strain on the
> family. But receiving 1/2 years wage as a bonus was a pretty nice "gift"..
>
> Now if I have an 60-80 hour week, which is very rare, management
> knows in advance I'll be taking an appropriate time off next week, or
> they'll owe my wife a very expensive dinner, or in one case a paid weekend
> in Colonial Williamsburg with car, hotel, and tickets to the events,
etc....
> Fair is fair.
>
> I'm down to about 45-55 hours a week, but it pays well, and I'm DBA
> for about 8-12 companies, 1 to 50 gig. "No database surprises" and that's
> what they want. I work almost exclusively from home now, cable modem, 3
> phone lines, 5 computers. That's quite a change and it took a lot of
getting
> used to. Flex schedules that if I have to pull data at 6PM, I may take a 2
> hour lunch, things like that. (I took a hour plus break during this note
to
> host a visit from my twins.... they popped in to visit.)
>
> Maks
> Tech Consultant
> maklinesr_at_home.com <mailto:maklinesr_at_home.com>
>
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