State of the union
There's so little around here these days.
I'd liken it to a small mining town that ran out of stuff but for some odd reason folk still hang around.
Very little to report on the Western front. Work's about the same, more people leaving. I'm actually posting this from my very first modern Apple device. An old, beaten-up white plastic Macbook.
The car has made little progression lately. I still need to get the brakes properly bled up but the weather's been too hot and humid to warrant actually going do anything at all. The computer board has gone on hold. I can't quite figure out what's wrong with it. Testing on the bench reveals the same voltages, the same waveforms, the same everything as the working breadboard but... it just doesn't work. Puzzling.
In a bit of a lull lately as far as life goes. Get up, go to work, come home, rinse, repeat.
Have a bunch of things I'd love to do but don't have the spare cash to put into them. This year's pay looks, extrapolated, to be about ten grand less than last year. Bills are going up, too. Last month's electric bill was high, and this month looks to be following suit, gauging on how much the central air has been running to keep this place liveable.
I went to Gonzales (near Baton Rouge) yesterday, to the HQ of our new owners. The weather there, although hot and humid was comparatively dry, noticeably, in fact. Pleasant change. Got to spend the day with the supervisors of the network support team and teach them the basics of our ticketing system. They have started taking the front line calls for us, as apparently it just doesn't do to have a group of guys who can take one call and work with it from inception to resolution. Apparently that has to be split up into seperate workflows that the shiny happy faced people meet-and-greet, and the full on technical support.
Meh.
Oh well. So long as it doesn't mean them closing the department. That's always weighing in at the back of my mind. At least for now it's meaning I can focus on becoming a bit more of a network specialist. There's things I'm doing more now that the sysadmin quit which I can officially put on my resume' if required.
Guess I roll with it and see where it leads me. I was working int he telephone exchange, and loving it. I got pulled back to work in the Internet department. Apparently it confuse the hell out of the management how so few people can run so many different tasks, but work different facets (eg how can you be a central office guy and not work fiber but also know the switch and translations DOES NOT COMPUTE WE MUST CHANGE YOU)
Infuriating. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Rant over. Hoping for the best. Wish us luck.
I'd liken it to a small mining town that ran out of stuff but for some odd reason folk still hang around.
Very little to report on the Western front. Work's about the same, more people leaving. I'm actually posting this from my very first modern Apple device. An old, beaten-up white plastic Macbook.
The car has made little progression lately. I still need to get the brakes properly bled up but the weather's been too hot and humid to warrant actually going do anything at all. The computer board has gone on hold. I can't quite figure out what's wrong with it. Testing on the bench reveals the same voltages, the same waveforms, the same everything as the working breadboard but... it just doesn't work. Puzzling.
In a bit of a lull lately as far as life goes. Get up, go to work, come home, rinse, repeat.
Have a bunch of things I'd love to do but don't have the spare cash to put into them. This year's pay looks, extrapolated, to be about ten grand less than last year. Bills are going up, too. Last month's electric bill was high, and this month looks to be following suit, gauging on how much the central air has been running to keep this place liveable.
I went to Gonzales (near Baton Rouge) yesterday, to the HQ of our new owners. The weather there, although hot and humid was comparatively dry, noticeably, in fact. Pleasant change. Got to spend the day with the supervisors of the network support team and teach them the basics of our ticketing system. They have started taking the front line calls for us, as apparently it just doesn't do to have a group of guys who can take one call and work with it from inception to resolution. Apparently that has to be split up into seperate workflows that the shiny happy faced people meet-and-greet, and the full on technical support.
Meh.
Oh well. So long as it doesn't mean them closing the department. That's always weighing in at the back of my mind. At least for now it's meaning I can focus on becoming a bit more of a network specialist. There's things I'm doing more now that the sysadmin quit which I can officially put on my resume' if required.
Guess I roll with it and see where it leads me. I was working int he telephone exchange, and loving it. I got pulled back to work in the Internet department. Apparently it confuse the hell out of the management how so few people can run so many different tasks, but work different facets (eg how can you be a central office guy and not work fiber but also know the switch and translations DOES NOT COMPUTE WE MUST CHANGE YOU)
Infuriating. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Rant over. Hoping for the best. Wish us luck.