Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Adventure 9: 22nd February 2005 - 2
"Ok, but if you break it yer paying for it...", Hi folks, Adventure 9 has the same date I know, ok brentyboy wind yer neck in..
I don't know why I'm talking to him, as he hasn't moved from BOFH since yesterday so probably won't end up reading this anyway.
08:30 Hey guess what, apparently 3 snowflakes fell last night and now it's really snowing, I have to get out get fags and warm up and clear, the afore mentioned 3 flakes, from both cars with my Homebase patented ice scraper..
09:00: Ok I've spent 30 minutes in the car and I've travelled 3 miles, the long stream of 4x4 off road vehicles don't seem to be able to cope with snow ! Not that there's any on the road, just generally, they've heard there's snow about and it's that white stuff falling from the sky, and that means we have to drive reeeeealllly sllllooooowwwwwlllyyyy.
09:15: The grand magician is there as I walk in "damn it" I think and they said there'd be disruption, fortuantely he's talking to the brentboy so I may get away with it...yup yesterday he said "change the font in your email" , "No I said I like wingdings", "makes you look like a secretary who's just discovered word" he says, "so ?, I like the font" I could've said, "sod off, git face, what the hell's it got to do with you, haven't you got some magic tricks to do (or programme management) as we like to call it."
10:00: Quiet Rob is here, I think he has new batteries as I can actually here him and we have another one of our in depth conversations about how having policies and procedures is a good thing and it'd be even better if we had them here....he does a lot of nodding..."
11:00 Brentboy, has been dragged away from BOFH, he has a messaging meeting (there is a God and he's not a nice guy!), and the grand master magician is going too...excellent!
11:15: In the smoking shelter having my customary, as many fags as I can get in whilst still holding down a sensible work related conversation, Mark Bailout turns up, thanking me for the invite and then (drum roll please) Dunk The Skunk, (rebel mc) turns up too, asking piercing questions like how's webNonsense coming, I think for a second he may actually understand what he's asking, but then reality dawns so I make up an answer and that seems to appease him for now.
12:30: Lunch
13:30: I've just noticed they're building a stage and sound system, just across the way from me. No one seems to know why, brentboy, breaks off his in depth technical discussion with some guy to do with messaging and starts singing "if you don't know me by now...", If I could I'd murder him in his sleep...
13:55: The music has started now, maybe they've hired the hall out to some disco / party..dunno more details as I have them...
16:30: Still no news on the disco that seems to have been set up along the way...30 mins before the F4.5 engineer turns up and we turn off internet access for good ;-))
17:00: Internet access is down as we upgrade the box, I've allocated 1-2 hours so the 3 minutes it took to do the upgrade is making me look damn good! I haven't told anyone they can use the internet as we've some very in depth configuration to do "...hit that, press that read a bit of the manual, does it work, no, shit, try that, no..." still not working, at least the old proxies are still working. I said the F5 engineer earlier, I should have said the F5 - Trainee engineer, I know this because he spends far too long calling the real F5 engineer and reading manuals etc.
18:00: Still here I was hoping we'd have it nailed by now (and man am I tired). The F5-Trainee is convinced the problem is that we need to add a route to our switch, yeah right, like he knows a. what a route is and b. what a switch is. To the uninitiated, I'm talking jargon here it's a thing that does something that you really don't need to know about unless you know what I'm talking about and then it's a really technical discussion. Fact is the connections can ping each other (i.e. communicate with each other) which if that wasn't working would be why you'd put a route in so the Trainee is talking bublocks.
19:00: I point these facts out to him and I know he hasn't a clue when he very quickly says "oh, yes that's right, of course silly me"...not overly impressed. After a final call to the guy who actually has a clue what he's doing, it's decided that they'll retire back to their lab, to lick their wounds (hey and who know's each others wounds), and try and resolve the issue. I'm off tomorrow so I know the sh$t is really going to hit the fan, I mean the project is only 3 weeks late....never mind!
I don't know why I'm talking to him, as he hasn't moved from BOFH since yesterday so probably won't end up reading this anyway.
08:30 Hey guess what, apparently 3 snowflakes fell last night and now it's really snowing, I have to get out get fags and warm up and clear, the afore mentioned 3 flakes, from both cars with my Homebase patented ice scraper..
09:00: Ok I've spent 30 minutes in the car and I've travelled 3 miles, the long stream of 4x4 off road vehicles don't seem to be able to cope with snow ! Not that there's any on the road, just generally, they've heard there's snow about and it's that white stuff falling from the sky, and that means we have to drive reeeeealllly sllllooooowwwwwlllyyyy.
09:15: The grand magician is there as I walk in "damn it" I think and they said there'd be disruption, fortuantely he's talking to the brentboy so I may get away with it...yup yesterday he said "change the font in your email" , "No I said I like wingdings", "makes you look like a secretary who's just discovered word" he says, "so ?, I like the font" I could've said, "sod off, git face, what the hell's it got to do with you, haven't you got some magic tricks to do (or programme management) as we like to call it."
10:00: Quiet Rob is here, I think he has new batteries as I can actually here him and we have another one of our in depth conversations about how having policies and procedures is a good thing and it'd be even better if we had them here....he does a lot of nodding..."
11:00 Brentboy, has been dragged away from BOFH, he has a messaging meeting (there is a God and he's not a nice guy!), and the grand master magician is going too...excellent!
11:15: In the smoking shelter having my customary, as many fags as I can get in whilst still holding down a sensible work related conversation, Mark Bailout turns up, thanking me for the invite and then (drum roll please) Dunk The Skunk, (rebel mc) turns up too, asking piercing questions like how's webNonsense coming, I think for a second he may actually understand what he's asking, but then reality dawns so I make up an answer and that seems to appease him for now.
12:30: Lunch
13:30: I've just noticed they're building a stage and sound system, just across the way from me. No one seems to know why, brentboy, breaks off his in depth technical discussion with some guy to do with messaging and starts singing "if you don't know me by now...", If I could I'd murder him in his sleep...
13:55: The music has started now, maybe they've hired the hall out to some disco / party..dunno more details as I have them...
16:30: Still no news on the disco that seems to have been set up along the way...30 mins before the F4.5 engineer turns up and we turn off internet access for good ;-))
17:00: Internet access is down as we upgrade the box, I've allocated 1-2 hours so the 3 minutes it took to do the upgrade is making me look damn good! I haven't told anyone they can use the internet as we've some very in depth configuration to do "...hit that, press that read a bit of the manual, does it work, no, shit, try that, no..." still not working, at least the old proxies are still working. I said the F5 engineer earlier, I should have said the F5 - Trainee engineer, I know this because he spends far too long calling the real F5 engineer and reading manuals etc.
18:00: Still here I was hoping we'd have it nailed by now (and man am I tired). The F5-Trainee is convinced the problem is that we need to add a route to our switch, yeah right, like he knows a. what a route is and b. what a switch is. To the uninitiated, I'm talking jargon here it's a thing that does something that you really don't need to know about unless you know what I'm talking about and then it's a really technical discussion. Fact is the connections can ping each other (i.e. communicate with each other) which if that wasn't working would be why you'd put a route in so the Trainee is talking bublocks.
19:00: I point these facts out to him and I know he hasn't a clue when he very quickly says "oh, yes that's right, of course silly me"...not overly impressed. After a final call to the guy who actually has a clue what he's doing, it's decided that they'll retire back to their lab, to lick their wounds (hey and who know's each others wounds), and try and resolve the issue. I'm off tomorrow so I know the sh$t is really going to hit the fan, I mean the project is only 3 weeks late....never mind!
# posted by cre8 @ 5:42 AM 
