7.00am [still asleep]
7.05am Dad: Lupu wake up - we've got an emergency landing
7.05am Me: Shit!
7.20am [Arrived at work]

What a befitting way to wake up on Friday the 13th. This morning one of our planes had to make an emergency landing because of a suspected tyre puncture after tyre debris was found on the runway. Being the programmer of our Crisis Management System I was notified immediately to activate the system. This is also the same reason why I almost shit in my pants as soon as I got to know about the emergency, since the program is far from ready and has been on my to-do list for about a year. I consider myself to be a programmer driven by users, and until today I never had any 'real' users for a crises management system.

Thank havens the aircraft landed safely, the program was not used, our job is still intact and our holiday is not yet spoilt. It's amazing how many things can rush through your head at the moment you hear something so catastrophic. I spent the rest of the day trying to compile my first J2EE JUnit test. I had to sort of implement an EJB client for this which involves fiddling with classpaths and execution settings quite a lot. Tomorrow I'll have to go to work in order to prepare for next Monday's trip to Dublin - with my boss .. Friday 13th !!!!

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