I was woken up at 1 AM this morning because a primary analyzer went down basically because a field engineer messed up a setting after upgrading the computer the afternoon before. I had to travel into work and couldn't figure it out until 4:30 AM. Got a swift 1-1.5 hrs of sleep and then started work (from home) because we were supposed to go live with another analyzer "first thing" in the morning, something that I worked on 7-7 yesterday for as the owning manager. I finally signed off around 11 AM so I could work on a video. Stopped to take a "nap" but I don't think I actually fell asleep for longer than 5 minutes. Now I'm here at 9:30 PM somehow running on less than 3 hours of sleep. What happens next?
By the way, as far as I'm concerned the go-live was a success. It was another 4 day turnaround. And the next feedback that I got was "Well what about this other test?" Yes, that test that was would have been ready to go live Wednesday had this instrument not been promised to the CEO with this insane turnaround time is now going to be extended by almost a week. Even more fun, both of these projects are actually duplicates of existing instrumentation. It's not like we couldn't run these before, they just want to be able to run more of it.