Well here I am in sunny San Jose only to find out it's warmer back home than it is here. Figures.
The full conference doesn't actually start until tomorrow, but I came in a day early to attend a pre-conference session on creating a Disaster Recovery Plan.
But as it turns out I almost needed a disaster-recovery plan for my flight from Minneapolis-San Jose last night. We were about 45 minutes from landing in San Jose when there was a strange burning smell from the front of the cabin and a small jolt felt in the plane. The pilot comes on and says we have to make an emergency landing in Las Vegas and when we do both sides of the runway are lined with fire trucks and other emergency vehicles that chase us down the runway. I'm somewhat disappointed that we didn't get to go down the evacuation slides, but maybe next time. Eventually they found us another plane and we arrived in San Jose about 5 hours later than planned.
The seminar on disaster recovery was very helpful and provided some real-world examples that SWITCH can draw from as we put our plan together. Innovative provides significant assistance when a system recovery is necessary and it is just up to us to insure that we have our ducks in a row should a situation arise when we would need Innovative to assist us in restoring our system from backup tapes.
Tonight I have my final Functional Expert (FE) meeting (and dinner) as I will be completing my 3 years as an FE and giving someone else the opportunity to wade through hundreds of enhancement requests for System Functionality. It was fun, but its time to move on...
-Bill
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
I'm glad you landed okay; did you get to go inside and do some gambling? Maybe bet on the success of your next flight?
And to keep you posted on the weather, it's cold and rainy today!
Enjoy the conference!
--Louise
I could have gambled, there were slots within 10 feet of the gate, but I figured my luck had run out at that point...
Post a Comment