Yesterday's placid-zen like calm has been replaced with 'bleh' today. Maybe it's the lack of sleep.. hmmm.. there are probably a few contributing factors that should not be discussed at the moment.

I am certain that if 'meeting?'-the-merc comes and pesters me one more time about his crappy reporting services reports he might get dropped kick. The guy's reports are scarey bad. I was slated to do them, being the reporting service guru for the team/group, but I was busy doing other massive components for the project. Fine. His reports are butt ugly, disturbingly large (I am talking 19 inches wide? WTF is that!?), and so freaking slow. He also has been trying to build a parameter control (I and another team member built this report viewer extension that allows us to use our own custom picklists and what not on a control that comes up with the report in a windows form app) and it looks spooky.

His testing methods was to drop a control in the reporting service solution (different project in the solution) and try and run it. Wow.. epic fail, right? Hosting and few hundred other things are out the window. I told him a few times, "just check out the main form. Drop a button on the toolbar that goes to a function where you call the report viewer with your controls. When done just undo the changes." He keeps coming back with issues and errors from his form in the reporting service solution. Ug.