Rave?: ahahaha. Yesterday I attended a 2 hour booze fueled lunch for departing technical resource who higher ups wouldn't pay to retain. Today his replacement, who the cheapskate's hired apparently from a nearby homeless shelter or something, has managed to take down the server and desktop infrastructure for an entire government department. 100 servers, several hundred workstations, all fucked beyond recovery. We're rolling back to restores for the fucking lot. Recovering from this shit is going to take at least the duration of the weekend, probably most of next week, and cost someone a fucking fortune in paid overtime and lost productivity. Rave because it wasn't me, it wasn't my client, and it's not my problem. And I'll get paid to fix it if I feel like helping out. For the geeks who asked - New guy pushed an SCCM OS Deployment job to reimage a single computer, to the entire farm instead of just the machine he was working on. He also pushed out the wrong image. As to why the fuck SCCM was setup to allow OS deployment push without user confirmation, to the production office vlan, much less the production fucking server room vlans... that's a mystery. But it was like that when we collectively got here.
Rant: I've been sick with a stomach thing for the past two days so I've been spending most of my time on the couch. The only thing worse than the waves of nausea are seeing these Education Connection commercials over and over again. Fucking annoying.
Rave - Just ordered a new pair of Ray-Ban Aviators and got free 2nd day air shipping. Rant - Replacing my previous pair which are now in the Atlantic. Rant - I'm probably going to have to start wearing Croakies or some other strappy device as I am not willing to lose another pair.
Rave: Finally have a day off where I don't have to do anything important so I organised with a mate to go surfing Rant: Leg rope broke about half an hour in and when I got my board from the shoreline one of the fins had broken off the board. It seemed that he wanted friends on his adventure because he ripped out the support plug that the fin slots into on the board. Now have a gapping hole in my board and now cant surf until it is fixed. Rave: At least the half an hour I got to surf was not wasted as I had a good time. As I had nothing else planned I went home and watched the first couple seasons of fraiser. I have forgotten how much I liked that show
Rant: "I didn't know you felt that way about me", this is after getting naked and fooling around with me once or twice" Rave: Shits in the open and we'll see where it goes.
Rant: Lost a fuck buddy due to her crazy. Age (33) has absolutely, buttfucking no indication of maturity.
Rant: There are a few big named universities that owe me upwards of $500 for games I refereed in the fall. Unfortunately, I can't keep pestering them otherwise I run the risk of not getting games there this following year. At least two of these universities are ones that I guarantee everyone from the grand old US of A has heard of. Rave: Falcons playoff tickets. One for myself, my girlfriend, my best friend, and his girlfriend for the 15th. Spoiler What do Falcons do?
RANT: Insomnia, and a totally fucked up sleep schedule. Joy. RAVE: Tank Abbot in the early UFC's. Been working my way through the first 10 UFC's, and it's all kinds of awesome.
Rant- My wife criticized me for using the term "Mexican" as opposed to "Hispanic" today. If the person is from Mexico, how is that derogatory? Hell, I think it's derogatory to think "Mexican" is derogatory.
Rant: Stupid cold. Nasal congestion sucks and I'm going through tissues faster than a 14 year old boy on YouPorn. Rave: Boyfriend has advised that he will be making chicken soup and cheddar biscuits for dinner. He's a good egg.
Rant: A little over a year ago we lost the hands down BEST customer service woman we've ever had. She decided to follow her fiance towards his job and the commute was too much to take. Rave: She came in today to talk about coming back. The problem is that we replaced her already and we can't pay her what she wants just to do customer service. That's where I come in. I'm the only department with spare $$ to spend on personnel AND she would make an excellent inside sales person. Rave: She almost choked when I offered her the starting salary #. Nearly 50% more than she made in CS and a lot more than she makes now. It was nice to make someones day. Rant: Fighting a cold. I refuse to let it win but that likely means I'm just making it worse. Hiking and working out in 15 degree weather while feeling achy all over isn't fun. Probably giving myself pneumonia but I'm a stubborn mofo.
Rave: Gotta get through the rest of today and then Monday, and then I'm off work for a whole week. Rant: Just checked the weather forecast for where I'm going and the high's are going to be in the 20's the whole time. I'm gonna freeze my fucking balls off.
Rant: Going through a shitload of service requests at work. I'd wager at least 40% contain some sort of egregious spelling or grammatical errors. I'm an intern for a global organization. These people are all college educated, and one would hope at least reasonably intelligent. I know this isn't an original complaint, but fucking seriously. It takes ten seconds make sure your writing doesn't look like a drunken text message. Rant/Rave: I start my final semester of college on Monday. I don't even want to process all the associated rants and raves that comes with that.
Rave: 2011 starts off with a bang! Getting a huge promotion and raise effective February 1. I'm moving from corporate development/aquisitions to operations, and I'm definitely a little nervous to be moving out of my comfort zone, but excited for the change of pace and a new challenge. Rant: Have to move...again. I've moved 4 times in the past 10 years and I'm tired of lugging all of my shit around from city to city. We still haven't sold our last home in Dallas, so having 2 homes on the market and a new one on the way will be a bit tricky. Rave: The new city will be Fort Lauderdale! Not one of my top 10 cities, but definitely a step up from Louisville, KY. Looking forward to being close to the ocean. Spring Break 2011 will be so boss. If any of you are familiar with the area, and bar/restaurant/neighborhood suggestions would be much appreciated.
RANT: Someone is being kind of a bitch and I don't really like it. RAVE: Going to the new JL Beers tonight.