Yes, I am superstitious.  I am migrating a 116 GB database to a test environment and I am wearing my lucky socks, my lucky hair scrunchy....and the fucker still failed at the same point (1 hour and 42 minutes in for those of you writing a book about my life) 3 times.  I know some of you out there feel my pain.  Ahem.

 So after fixing the obvious issues on the fourth try I held my breath between minute 1 hr 40 and 1 hr 43 (not the whole time - do I look like Michael Phelps?  Oh wait, you haven't seen me so for all you know I do look like him.  But no, I don't and you'll just have to take my word on that.)

Whilst holding my breath I sang the themes from The Brady Kids Cartoon AND Josie and the Pussycats in my head without stopping and stared at my screen without blinking willing it to migrate past the fail.  And you know what?  That worked.

I shouldn't be giving out all these career secrets on the internet, you're all going to collect these bits of technical genius and flood the job market and I'm too smart for that.  So maybe I lied.  Maybe it was two completely different theme songs, or a lucky barrette in place of a scrunchy.  You don't know.  

So I'm sitting here hour 6 watching what I hope is the last of my Z tables load - I have been staring at loading bars all day and can see them when I close my eyes.  I HAVE to because when I look away they stop loading.  Attention whores that they are...this sums it up.

And what's Friday without another SQL joke?

Try to get these ear worms out of your head...I dare ya.  (and if you're Cindy how insulting is this theme song...that nondescript is she?  And I still SO want to be Melody when I grow up.)