The attack of the killer ants

Wednesday 17th
Bloody spell checker, that should have been Kilo-ants – there were thousands of them.

It was raining again this morning and it looks like the river is still rising. It was a busy day. I finished updating the manual and did a test for tank farm features. Normally each group of tanks services several wells and it is the usual practice to have to split the production into these tanks between the wells using an allocation algorithm. That's why companies need software like this in the first place. However, here each well has had its own tank so the production into the tank = the production out of the well.

When I was here last time they were just about to start up a tank farm. That still hasn’t happened but it could be starting any day (or week or month) now. Any way I made up some test data as if it started a few days ago to test the software. I found and fixed some bugs and then had to redesign the daily report. Usual stuff – always in a rush at the end. Anyway, I think it is all done now although I was late leaving the office. It was already dark and still threatening to rain so no run tonight.

There is still the morning for them to test the new version, ask questions and fix any last minute glitches. Then it's off the Bangkok, hopefully soon after lunch. Last time we arrived about 5 and the traffic, once you left the freeway, was horrific, so I'd like to get there a bit earlier.

Jim (the field manager) said he was going to email his old boss in Syria about the system. They apparently are also running on multiple spreadsheets and could do with a consolidation into a proper database. You can’t beat word of mouth for finding new clients.

Oh the ants. I guess the wet weather has driven them inside and there were so many on my desk and getting on the keyboard I had to hunt up some insect spray. They weren’t very big but it got really annoying.

Dinner tonight was pork steaks or mackerel. I had the pork. Lunch was a lemon chicken.

I've added some more then and now photos from the hotel They have knocked out a section of the wall which makes the trip from my room to the canteen very much shorter. Quite an advantage in the rain..