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My mother is absolutely infuriating! I suppose I should be nice, with Mothers Day around the corner and all, but I think she purposely tries to needle me sometimes.
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There is an airshow this weekend at Dobbins AFB. I think I may go to see the Blue Angels. I'm having conflicting feelings here because on one hand, I have always had a love of aviation, but on the other, the display of America's "military might" might kinda be frustrating.
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Next week starts the real crunch at work. The crunch we've been feeling for the past five or six weeks - of not being able to sit at my desk all day because I've been too busy, of not being able to take lunch, of running around, of stress and tempers - this crunch is nothing compared to what is coming. I've been designing and overseeing construction of our new server room for the past few months - now it is time to move in. Weekend work, disconnecting and reconnecting drive arrays (with fingers crossed), revamping the entire network design, configuring switches and routers, moving servers, wiring and rewiring racks, something is almost always guaranteed to break, late nights, moving phone systems, troubleshooting cabling troubles, transitioning to new wiring closets, 14, 16, 18 hour days, 3am nights, having to turn around and be in at 7:30 in the morning to make sure everything works or if it doesn't, being there to explain to upper management and users why it doesn't work. Five weeks of this. Three of moving, and two of fixing whatever didn't get done in those three weeks while Corwin is off getting hitched/hanged. Then a normal week, then maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to go to Cisco training in DC. Hmm. Fat chance, probably, but it is a nice thought.
I like stress and I hate stress, but what can you do? I bring it on myself.
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There is an airshow this weekend at Dobbins AFB. I think I may go to see the Blue Angels. I'm having conflicting feelings here because on one hand, I have always had a love of aviation, but on the other, the display of America's "military might" might kinda be frustrating.
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Next week starts the real crunch at work. The crunch we've been feeling for the past five or six weeks - of not being able to sit at my desk all day because I've been too busy, of not being able to take lunch, of running around, of stress and tempers - this crunch is nothing compared to what is coming. I've been designing and overseeing construction of our new server room for the past few months - now it is time to move in. Weekend work, disconnecting and reconnecting drive arrays (with fingers crossed), revamping the entire network design, configuring switches and routers, moving servers, wiring and rewiring racks, something is almost always guaranteed to break, late nights, moving phone systems, troubleshooting cabling troubles, transitioning to new wiring closets, 14, 16, 18 hour days, 3am nights, having to turn around and be in at 7:30 in the morning to make sure everything works or if it doesn't, being there to explain to upper management and users why it doesn't work. Five weeks of this. Three of moving, and two of fixing whatever didn't get done in those three weeks while Corwin is off getting hitched/hanged. Then a normal week, then maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to go to Cisco training in DC. Hmm. Fat chance, probably, but it is a nice thought.
I like stress and I hate stress, but what can you do? I bring it on myself.