Moving house is always fun. Particularly when getting hold of packing boxes. Moving companies charge for them if they're not going to be returned. There's a place advertising itself as the Box Shop which has "Boxes from $1!" all over its website, by which they mean "There's a beat-up box sitting out the front of the store exposed to the weather ( Read more... )

Managed to design, configure, test, and implement a cross-WAN multi-backup, caching, and cross-site mirror and data transfer setup for the current employer ( Read more... )

Slept far too little last night, got into work late, racked up more time-debt on the timesheet. Got home, went out for dinner, most expensive and off-putting Indian dinner I've had in quite some time. Actually could not finish eating, it was that bad, and got charged about twice what I'd expect from a normal Indian restaurant and three to four ( Read more... )

Further irritation with the so-called sixty hours of paperwork and checkboxes and form-completion which took me forty minutes. I completed it to the satisfaction of the computer systems, but it took the better part of an hour to wring out of the human cross-checker the fact that she didn't want to approve it because the next level of auditors ( Read more... )

In destitution and desperation, I organised a meetup of IT folks at the city park today. All I had to do was turn up early and do the meet-and-greet so people would know it was the right place and would hang around until critical mass was achieved. It was going to be a massive job fair, or at least bring a lot of opportunities together in one place ( Read more... )

I'm mentally tuning out at work. There's nothing there to interest me, I only have a couple of weeks left on the contract, and I find myself thinking about anything other than the boring stacks of paperwork to be ground through ( Read more... )

So after four months and three weeks of footdragging and delays, the new bank has finally decided to set Wednesday as the handover date for our mortgage refinancing ( Read more... )

Seven weeks to go to the end of this contract ( Read more... )

4∑x!x=0

Hmm, seems to work OK in posts. Not so much in LJ settings. Meh.

Anyway, talked to the HR minion and the supervisor today, and they'll see if anything else is available, hopefully in some other team. I did push for business analysis over something like helpdesk yet again, but I expect results sharpish or it's job hunt time again ( Read more... )

Oh, update on the work situation - despite the Distant Boss assuring me that he would OK my contract changes, he hasn't. Colour me surprised. So I'm still on my original contract, which is a higher rate of pay and I get to keep all my IP ( Read more... )