Thursday, January 13, 2005
Adventure 1: 13th January 2005
11:05am - Been at work for 3 hours well I say 3 more like 2!! With my eldest sick (dreaded flu) I had to drop Jack (my youngest (8)) - "the prince of darkness at school and man was it cold today...."
Finally got to work about 8:50 and then the shirt starts...I have a real thing about shirt labels, I'm sure some psychologist would have reams to say about it, "oh yes this is classic labellism", or something like that...so I spent 30 minutes in the loo, unpicking the little sucker..
My mind drifted back to yesterday, when at about 5pm I got a call from the wife...
"Have you got any money on you", she asked, "No, sorry", I replied, "Why's that ?", I asked, "I wanted you to get some beans", she replied, "Beans ? why what are we having for dinner", I quizzed her (I could have been a gestapo interrogator in a previous life I think), "Well I don't know", she replied, "I've only got as far as the beans", she explained !!!!
I'm sure the people in the other cubicles were dying with curiousity snip snip, pick, pick, chuckle, chuckle.....
Got back to my desk, to discover that the DNS servers that had turned their toes up and stopped my ISA servers from working, still not convinced it's going to handle 4,000 users but hey what do I know, kicked them on to another set of DNS and all was well....
Alex "David Brent", was there (not that surprising given that I was late getting in) and within 10 minuntes it was time for a fag break....so I had two, gotta give this crap up I really do...
Finally got to work about 8:50 and then the shirt starts...I have a real thing about shirt labels, I'm sure some psychologist would have reams to say about it, "oh yes this is classic labellism", or something like that...so I spent 30 minutes in the loo, unpicking the little sucker..
My mind drifted back to yesterday, when at about 5pm I got a call from the wife...
"Have you got any money on you", she asked, "No, sorry", I replied, "Why's that ?", I asked, "I wanted you to get some beans", she replied, "Beans ? why what are we having for dinner", I quizzed her (I could have been a gestapo interrogator in a previous life I think), "Well I don't know", she replied, "I've only got as far as the beans", she explained !!!!
I'm sure the people in the other cubicles were dying with curiousity snip snip, pick, pick, chuckle, chuckle.....
Got back to my desk, to discover that the DNS servers that had turned their toes up and stopped my ISA servers from working, still not convinced it's going to handle 4,000 users but hey what do I know, kicked them on to another set of DNS and all was well....
Alex "David Brent", was there (not that surprising given that I was late getting in) and within 10 minuntes it was time for a fag break....so I had two, gotta give this crap up I really do...