Well, three SQL Saturdays down for April.  Raleigh which was local for me and I helped organize, Philadelphia where I got to give two talks, and Wheeling which made the news. At least this month we had spring weather for all of them.  On the way to Philadelphia, the crew I was with has a tradition of stopping at Cracker Barrel when making car trips and we had pulled off the main Interstate.  So I pulled over to a pretty cool historical landmark by pure chance the place where John Wilkes Booth died.  We would notice as we were driving up to Maryland 301 we seemed to be following some of his path based on other land markers we seen in passing.  At Philadelphia, I had technical difficulties and could not show demos during one presentation, after I finish writing my newest presentation coming up for Idera, it’s time to record my demos for all five of my presentations.  Allergy season was so bad in North Carolina I lost my voice in Philadelphia but was lucky to have most of back the next weekend for Wheeling.

I attended SQLskills training for Azure between Philadelphia and Wheeling as well.  It’s been a busy month, I didn’t arrive in Wheeling into 1:30 AM Saturday, and we had to leave at 3:00 PM so we could get back for maintenance the next morning at 9 AM, so we didn’t get back until 12:30 AM Sunday.  Maintenace at least went smooth, and I can set up more AGs, then do more upgrades to 2017.

This month I read two books Well Designed and Sprint. Working for SaaS company Well Designed applies to the company but reminds me to keep my database administration processes designed well and easy for others to read and understand.  Sprint was more interesting; the idea is you build and prototype a product in just five days.  I’m interested in trying this out on processes in our organizations.  I’ve already discussed an idea with my soon to be manager.

In my superhero duties, I had court last month where we had to terminate the rights of the parent to free up a child for adoption. It was sad but necessary given the progression of the case. I have court tomorrow for my other case, which has proven to my most challenging and frustrating case I have ever had, and for privacy reasons, of course, I can’t discuss any details.  Needless to say, I will not give up.

This month on WeSpeakLinux.com we have Whitney Champion speaking on DevOps.  This should be interesting to hear from a Linux a perspective.

Due to being sick for three weeks I didn’t make any progress on my yearly goals, I was just in survival mode.