A friend was admitted to the hospital yesterday morning. He awoke in the middle of the night coughing up blood. Turns out he has pneumonia. It was supposed to just be overnight, but for some reason, he's going to be kept for at least a couple days.

He works part time and has no private insurance. Who's paying for the hospital stay? The state, Medicaid. Seems like there's a public option that already exists.

So there was a big meeting with the steering committee. It's like the most unwieldy committee ever. I think there are like 20 people on it. It's more like a cluster fuck more than anything. I mean how can that be a steering committee?

Anyways, just the SIMPLEST part of the logic was the issue that bubbled up to the top. Not the one that I've mentioned in my last blog entry. This is an important thing because well, it's like 20 people all wondering why the sky is falling running around like their heads are also cut off.

More about the steering committee. People who's input was required in the beginning finally showed up. Yes FINALLY, and were like broadsided with why they didn't have any input or assistance to why this is now a boondoggle.

Well, let's take a little step back. See when someone says, "I need your input." for about 3 months worth of meetings, and you decide to just blow them off, well you'll look like a moron once a...

I'm trying hard to do the right thing and that is vocalize and strategize changing the direction we're going in. Now when the vendor was gathering information, they decided to forgo talking to me for some reason. I'm not the business, I'm now in IT. I speak and understand the business, and can translate business into IT speak. For some reason I was left out of some crucial meetings where some assumptions were made that I could have said, "No that will not work for 100% of the time."

So now, when someone is using the product system, they are trying to find out one simple thing, "Where can I sell this product?" What this basically means is that if we've sold rights to other territories in other languages, and the product you are asking about is in the english language, well the fact that we sold German language worldwide for the title has no effect on where you can sell that particular book. The only time it would make any effect on it is if you sold the...

oh shit, i just realized i'm on the train....on both trains that are headed for a collision course.

You know when you're watching a train going to crash into something and there's little to nothing you can do to stop it?

yeah that's how I'm feeling these days.

I've raised the flag, I've made people aware of the issues.

But, people are thinking, "Let's deal with that post implementation."

Now the last implementation of an application, everyone thought that it sucked because it was railroaded down their throats.

We have a chance to change perception, but again, they'd rather railroad it down their throats. See they don't have to deal with the application day to day, they just have to show they hit their targeted schedule.

Sucks to be the users.