River City Connections—2026-04-29 (Patreon)

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OKAY, THAT ALL HAPPENED by Cindi Curtis Allen

I’ll spare you a reprise of me saying that a year ago, I never would have believed today could happen.

Hayes picked me up early andwe headed downtown to Roman’s office for immersion into—as Hayes called it—independent contractor work. I had a little panic attack on the 240 North loop. Hayes said that was sort of ubiquitous for driving in Memphis rush hour.

<sarcasm>I didn’t know Memphis posted speed limit signs in base 13… </sarcasm>

The elevator to his office was crowded. I didn’t know what to do with my hands, so I just folded them together in front and took long, slow breaths.

The partner who does HR, Claire Marston, the partner who handles HR, had all my papers ready for signature. I had sent in my I-9 documents earlier this week. It was fast and easy.

After that, it was pretty easy. Roman and I sat in what they call the server room, which actually has a few LAN servers in it, and connected to the AWS servers where they actually keep the good stuff. We looked at file directories and databases.

He gave me a beast of a laptop with all the logins pre-configured. Once I log into it, I’m connected to everything.

We duped all of his production files into a dev environment, and created a couple of test customers in the database.

“So,” he said, “you’re going to create the customer interface and the authentication server system that links it all?”

I nodded. “Once it’s all working, we’ll change the pointers on the authentication server from dev to prod and be ready for a go-live. We’ll roll it out to the test customers first, of course.”

Meeting over. Plan laid.

Let the celebratory lunch begin.

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