Work

Burning the midnight oil

I came to the SWDCMA office at about 6:00 Saturday afternoon. As you can see from the datestamp on this entry, it is now almost 5 a.m. on Sunday morning. I’m still here. The reason I came here was to install the Battery Backup unit I mentioned in my earlier post , as well as install a modem that...

Aug 15, 2004 3 minute read.

Life

My Birthday

Well today was my birthday, I spent the vast majority of my day listening to Microsoft spokespeople telling me how great Microsoft is… But hey, it was a TS2 event so I get a free copy of Microsoft Office for giving them my time, and the seminars were quite enlightening. I learned several details...

Aug 10, 2004 2 minute read.

Life

He's gone!

David left yesterday to go to Washington (via Canada since all the flights to Seattle and Portland were all overbooked). His flight was delayed, delayed, and delayed again, so that though his original flight was supposed to leave at 4:30, his flight finally took off at 8:05 and arrived Vancouver...

Aug 02, 2004 1 minute read.

Work

Busy

Following my Restless night’s sleep I had a rather busy day. I received calls for support from the SWDCMA, from ERCC, and from FTMC. FTMC I handled over the phone, SWDCMA I started to handle remotely, but in the process of trying to fix their problem, I had to upgrade the firmware on their...

Jul 30, 2004 2 minute read.

Stress

Tired

I had a hard time sleeping last night. A Storm was raging all night long and when I wasn’t being woken up by the extremely loud thunder and hard rain, I was being woken up by horrible nightmares I dreamed I was being dangled above the water. I wasn’t hung in a noose or anything like that but my...

Jul 30, 2004 1 minute read.

Work

Pop goes the...

I was driving to the district office today to do a small job and also help Angela get her pictures uploaded when I suddenly heard a strange scraping noise. It took me less than a second to realize I either had a flat tire and was riding the rim, or something had broken off the bottom of the car...

Jul 28, 2004 2 minute read.

Writing

Catch 22

Curiously enough, when I finished my post, I viewed it and clicked the Google Search button and it told me exactly the etymology of the phrase “Catch-22” on the very first search hit According to WordOrigins.org for the Letter C… Catch-22 This phrase, meaning a situation where one bureaucratic...

Jul 28, 2004 3 minute read.

Politics

JibJab

No, I didn’t come up with that title, my girlfriend told me about JibJab.com where there is an interesting political cartoon is currently being shown to anyone who wants to click it. In case they change their homepage, the link I just posted should go straight to the video, but be sure to visit...

Jul 28, 2004 1 minute read.

Work

VPNs and old bosses

Today I went over to the District Office to again attempt to troubleshoot the problems with their ability to log into the network through a VPN tunnel. Not seeing anything wrong with the server or the setup in the router I did the only thing logical, I printed off the page listing all the ports...

Jul 24, 2004 4 minute read.