Change… Terrifying? Kind of!

Exhilarating? Only at the beginning of the project when visions of time saving technology dance in our heads. By the end of the project we are writing odd little articles at 2 am to explain to participants what is happening to their co-op website.

Will we survive? Absolutely!  It’ll be our children all being teenagers at one time that does us in, not this.

Will you survive? Yeah, we know that’s really what you are wondering.  You will, we promise.  Remember it’s just produce, and whatever happens, we are committed to doing the right thing for participants.  After all, we are the fruit loops who give up 2 nights of sleep a week over something corny like blessing families with healthy food for less.

Is it making us wish we were 2 months down the road already? Oh, yes!

So why would we even bother changing you ask? If you are in Utah or Idaho you’ll know that the old system had some heavy duty problems. The new one took all of our bandwidth gobbling traffic in stride. It was beautiful! A blur of neon green lines on a black background climbed steadily higher last Monday at noon, but never maxed out the server. Apache generated new connections, and the server didn’t choke. (ok, that’s how I’m choosing to remember it. There was that one little part where it did choke, but thankfully we just added another server and poof it was like nothing happened.)

Then there’s the parts no one probably knows about except the two of us, and maybe the people that live with us. The old website was becoming increasingly harder to use. Matter of fact, we made the leap to the new system before we were ready to (likely this confession is not a shock to you.  You  were probably thinking it didn’t seem done.) The old system could not even extract our transaction information for us anymore it was so bogged down. Our ordinary Tuesday & Wednesday work nights that normally end at about 2 am were ending at 1 am since the files couldn’t be extracted, then restarting at 5 am when the engineers got in on the East Coast. Can you say OUCH?

So here we are, midway through a conversion. If any of you have ever been through system conversions it’s like childbirth in a hospital. You just pray the memory fades so you can do it again in a little while. And the best part, it does fade, or gets blocked due to trauma or something, but we promise you’ll suffer through another upgrade 20 years from now with us. We are hoping to be on this new system for about 20 years. We (Yes, this is a universal WE. Not just us, but you too! We know this hasn’t been easy.) can not possibly get more grey hair before then, so we have to make it last!