Friday, February 25, 2005
Adventure 11: 24th February 2005
"straight, what do you mean straight..." Lo folks, back to work today grrrr...feels like monday all over again.
08:45: The by now customary drive to work has been completed..15 minutes this time so it's getting better. The hordes of 4x4 drivers have obviously discovered that the white stuff doesn't actually do anything, especially when it lands and instantly turns to water !!
09:00: Get to work, I'm still thinking "what the hell happened to all the snow that was forcasted", typical this country, we can't get anything right.
09:05: Open my email, to discover one from the grand wizard. He's not happy, and is having a right old go about the BIG IP from tuesday. Of course had the design not changed, and a load of other unforseen events not taken place then this would have been deployed by now but hey I only have 15 years IT experience, what the hell do I know. I send him a fairly curt email back, though I held off being abusive. If the guy lets me off his lead, I might actually do some good, another point I've made to him.
09:10: The disco from Tuesday, isn't in fact a disco, it is in fact a series of presentations. Brentboy and I can distinctly hear the "blah, fnah, stor, process" followed by some clapping and the odd "hu hu hoo hoo" from the same audience, so we decide to join in. Everytime the clapping starts we start applauding too, we've no idea what we're applauding, the presentation may have been complete garbage, we will never know, but we laugh at the same time everyone else does.
10:00: The bloody presentation thing is still going on. I'm trying to do documentation, and it's getting there, only 42 pages done.
11:00: Absolutely nothing is happening, I've submitted my change request so I can actually get the webnonsense stuff deployed within the 10 days the grand wizard has stipulated. Of course they've come back and said they can't possibly approve it unless there's several meetings and discussions and I was hoping to have it approved before the grand wizard comes back from moving castles but so he couldn't suggest clever things like DNS round robin instead, but that's not looking likely.
12:00 back to the documentation for 30 mins.
12:30: Lunch.
13:30: Back to work, Mark Bailout calls "fag...?", "yeah go on then" doh !....Brentboy cant' come, he's pinned under the desk (if you know what I mean), because Julie Lowcutop has arrived to discuss messaging and to display her impressive clevage to him. She obviously finds adjusting her clothing, keeps people (I say people I mean men) interested in what she has to say, though I think if she asked them they wouldn't actually remember.
14:00: Brentboy is still talking to her, I'm sure his desk is vibrating, but I'm not 100% sure of that.
15:00: Checked the snapshots to find that they're snapping from two days ago and some are failing..grrr..so I open up the editor to have a look what the hell is going on.
Out having a smoke in the smoking shelter (appropriately named I think you'll find), the topic of conversation I've chosen is my discovery that the founder of the Atkins diet is actually 24 stone!!! I happen to mention that that's probably due to the fact he's an American and that they're all fairly large, when someone pipes up and says this guy here is American, I look over and yup, 9 stone if he's a pound...quick as a flash "well you're obviously the exception that proves the rule", dunno why I'm bothering, as I don't actually care whether he's offended or not.
16:00: Snow is still falling and turning to water instantly, I'm sooooo unimpressed with this stuff.
Bit of surfing is what's called for, so I got my web mail account to discover the wife has downloaded it to our home PC, for some reason I find that really annoying, even though 90% of it is spam, it's my spam and I want to delete it !!;-)
17:00: Documentation is done, I have to do the Daily Operations guide, so I, like the clever sod I am I save my "How to reinstall it if you've really screwed it up guide" and then delete it all so I can use the same template and fonts etc...typing away all is well.
17:30: Reet home time, just save this now, and noooooooooooooooooooooooo, I've saved it with the same name as the mamoth 44 pager I spent a week writing!!! For some reason I figure there has to be a way of getting it back but you know as well as I do, there isn't much swearing ensues and I shut down the machine in a rage...time to go bloody home !!!!!
08:45: The by now customary drive to work has been completed..15 minutes this time so it's getting better. The hordes of 4x4 drivers have obviously discovered that the white stuff doesn't actually do anything, especially when it lands and instantly turns to water !!
09:00: Get to work, I'm still thinking "what the hell happened to all the snow that was forcasted", typical this country, we can't get anything right.
09:05: Open my email, to discover one from the grand wizard. He's not happy, and is having a right old go about the BIG IP from tuesday. Of course had the design not changed, and a load of other unforseen events not taken place then this would have been deployed by now but hey I only have 15 years IT experience, what the hell do I know. I send him a fairly curt email back, though I held off being abusive. If the guy lets me off his lead, I might actually do some good, another point I've made to him.
09:10: The disco from Tuesday, isn't in fact a disco, it is in fact a series of presentations. Brentboy and I can distinctly hear the "blah, fnah, stor, process" followed by some clapping and the odd "hu hu hoo hoo" from the same audience, so we decide to join in. Everytime the clapping starts we start applauding too, we've no idea what we're applauding, the presentation may have been complete garbage, we will never know, but we laugh at the same time everyone else does.
10:00: The bloody presentation thing is still going on. I'm trying to do documentation, and it's getting there, only 42 pages done.
11:00: Absolutely nothing is happening, I've submitted my change request so I can actually get the webnonsense stuff deployed within the 10 days the grand wizard has stipulated. Of course they've come back and said they can't possibly approve it unless there's several meetings and discussions and I was hoping to have it approved before the grand wizard comes back from moving castles but so he couldn't suggest clever things like DNS round robin instead, but that's not looking likely.
12:00 back to the documentation for 30 mins.
12:30: Lunch.
13:30: Back to work, Mark Bailout calls "fag...?", "yeah go on then" doh !....Brentboy cant' come, he's pinned under the desk (if you know what I mean), because Julie Lowcutop has arrived to discuss messaging and to display her impressive clevage to him. She obviously finds adjusting her clothing, keeps people (I say people I mean men) interested in what she has to say, though I think if she asked them they wouldn't actually remember.
14:00: Brentboy is still talking to her, I'm sure his desk is vibrating, but I'm not 100% sure of that.
15:00: Checked the snapshots to find that they're snapping from two days ago and some are failing..grrr..so I open up the editor to have a look what the hell is going on.
Out having a smoke in the smoking shelter (appropriately named I think you'll find), the topic of conversation I've chosen is my discovery that the founder of the Atkins diet is actually 24 stone!!! I happen to mention that that's probably due to the fact he's an American and that they're all fairly large, when someone pipes up and says this guy here is American, I look over and yup, 9 stone if he's a pound...quick as a flash "well you're obviously the exception that proves the rule", dunno why I'm bothering, as I don't actually care whether he's offended or not.
16:00: Snow is still falling and turning to water instantly, I'm sooooo unimpressed with this stuff.
Bit of surfing is what's called for, so I got my web mail account to discover the wife has downloaded it to our home PC, for some reason I find that really annoying, even though 90% of it is spam, it's my spam and I want to delete it !!;-)
17:00: Documentation is done, I have to do the Daily Operations guide, so I, like the clever sod I am I save my "How to reinstall it if you've really screwed it up guide" and then delete it all so I can use the same template and fonts etc...typing away all is well.
17:30: Reet home time, just save this now, and noooooooooooooooooooooooo, I've saved it with the same name as the mamoth 44 pager I spent a week writing!!! For some reason I figure there has to be a way of getting it back but you know as well as I do, there isn't much swearing ensues and I shut down the machine in a rage...time to go bloody home !!!!!
# posted by cre8 @ 3:00 AM 
