Sábada otra vez

We restarted our 0-1500 bridge game, held online, at 9am. When I posted the results for the game, I discovered the names of some of the players were not showing up properly, For example, let's say a player calls herself jollygreen when she is on BBO (Bridge Base Online web site). This is commonly referred to as her username. The bridge game produces a file that can be used by the players to see how they played. This is competitive bridge, so players are ranked based on their scores during the game.

I process that file to make its format such that it can be uploaded to our bridge club's web site. As that process runs, it converts the players' names to their real names ... e.g., jollygreen to Jenny Green. The process reads a file where I have separate entries for each player, similar to:

jollygreen,Jenny,Green

The format of each line in that file expects:

• BBO name followed by comma
• first name followed by comma
• surname

If any entry in that files does not conform to that, it is rejected by the process I use and must be fixed. So, today, for some reason Jenny Green appeared in the results on our website as jollygreen. Say what! I entered it correctly and I know it was correct since the process I used did not complain.

Here's the rub ... as it turns out, I have multiple copies of the file that contains the properly formatted BBO, first name, and surname. I was pointing at the wrong copy of the file 👎. Silly me ... I should have known better. This is file management kindergarten that I just fell for. One of the many golden rules of my background in high tech is as follows:

𝕆𝕟𝕝𝕪 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕠𝕟𝕖 (𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕀 𝕞𝕖𝕒𝕟 𝕠𝕟𝕖) 𝕔𝕠𝕡𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕔𝕣𝕦𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝 𝕗𝕚𝕝𝕖𝕤 ..

I don't know how many times I have preached that mantra to clients, colleagues, fellow workers and, oh ya, me! I looked around to see where that file resided, from both of my laptops, and they were both pointing to the wrong copy. Ok Mr. Duncerama ... is it fixed yet.

I know myself too well, and this may reoccur ...

Reminds me of the line ... you are you're own worst enemy. I rest my case Your Honour. 

My lady is working away on a bit of condo business. She is not as stressed out while doing the preparation of the board's most recent meeting, as shs has been on some other of these tasks. When that meeting finished a while back, I asked her how it went. She said something like pretty good. Then today, I hypothesized something that she confirmed ... the stress level of minutes preparation varies directly as the opinion of how the meeting went. Hence less stressful meeting = less stressful minutes preparation. Both her and I are looking forward to the remaining meetings during her presidential term going as well as the October meeting just had.