Minnie’s Musings

…. because I got hideously stuck trying to decipher how to SQL code a table. More of which later.

After another two hours going back and forth between the instructions and online videos and still not getting it, I jumped in my car again to meet my friend in a local NT woodland which is roughly half way between us. En route I remembered my sister had asked me to purchase an item which you can’t get in the US but can purchase in a NT gift shop. So, while I was – strictly speaking – early to meet friend (new leaf having been turned over) I appeared to be a minute late as I dashed into the shop two minutes before closing.

Anyway, the ONLY highlight of the day was taking a lovely walk with an old and dear friend in the late evening sunshine and peace and quiet (after families had gone home to eat, bathe and read bedtime stories). What heaven it was to walk (briskly, she is quick on her feet) in the dappled, golden light and then sit on a bench to rest my knee and dissect recent events in our eventful lives.

Suddenly the temperature dropped and we made an almost simultaneous decision to up sticks and head back to our respective cars. This was – as per the theme of my day – way less than a moment too soon as the heavens opened. As we were getting decidedly damp under the canopy of trees there was nothing for it but to dash back to the car park and say a quick goodbye in – by that time – the drip, drip of the remnants of a thunderous downpour. Soaked to the skin.

Suffice it to say, I went back to the coal face to try and make progress on SQL. Only to discover at the eleventh hour that there is a little eye in the corner of the question which gives you the correct code. And, if you scroll down just a centimeter further the exercises have a list of solutions. Arghhhhhhh! It’s not like I am a teacher who regularly lectures students on turning over the last page to see if there is a question on the back. Grrrrrrrr!!!