Return to Journaling

It's been awhile. But today seemed like the right day to start posting again. It's April 27th; 2010 brought an unusually mild winter and a warm, early spring. We had flowers blooming in late March! That rarely happens in this neck of the woods. So it would be perfectly reasonable to expect, one month later, that the mild weather was here to stay for awhile. Am I right? Not so fast, honey. Snow's been falling all day. Temperatures a few degrees above freezing. The drive home? Blech! I swear that the flowers are wearing expressions; the tulips are shocked, the flowering shrubs, dismayed and the daffodils are downright depressed. As for the Magnolia trees that opened their showy blooms in the balmy sunshine this past week, well, all they can say is, WTF.

Yesterday was gorgeous. Today I'm diggin' my down coat and winter boots out of the closet just to take the dog for a walk. Outrageous.

All that makes for a nice segueway to this. It's a video of Gloria Steinem discussing doing outrageous or shocking things (in the cause of justice) and having a good time doing them. I considered pulling a fire alarm today while I was sitting through a rather tedious portion of a course I'm taking with some of my colleagues (social justice?), but the tedious part didn't last long. I settled for donning snow boots in April instead.

Long time no blog

When I started this thing, I promised myself I would make several entries a week. Yeah right. Anywhore, it's time to get back on the bandwagon, so to speak.

These past few months have been much more tolerable, since the dude in the Corner Office got the boot and his evil minion (aka Big A) has been somewhat destabilized by the whole thing. It seems that the new head honcho at this here institute of higher larnin' just did not see IT to IT with Corner Office Dude and put him out to pasture. Not a moment too soon, as my colleagues and I were all seriously rethinking our career paths.

The replacement Corner Office dude is a temp; bridging the gap until a new pointy-haired boss can be found. Trouble is, temp Corner Office Dude wants out by year end and the promised "international search" for a new Visionary to lead this IT quagmire has yet to be launched.

Fun times. And now, you're up to date.

Noticed by the Techno Peasant

TP: You have a blog too? It must be about erotica!

HO: More like "Neurotica". You got the perversion part right, 'though.

An early Christmas present

TP: Hey, I hear that the boss is off on a conference and won't be back until the new year.

HO: Yep.

TP: What's the conference? Soft Skills for Dummies?

15 days until Christmas

Freezing rain in the big city today. Normally that brings a bit of respite from the usual office stupidity, because many of the staff who live off-island fail to make it in to work. Not today, 'though.

I arrive at the office to find the operations folk in a tizzy because one of the servers is not responding and she can not reach the system administrator for that machine. I try connecting to it by its host name and the machine appears to respond right away. But something is wrong; I can't log in. So I trek to the machine room to find the machine humming away and happily responding to its console. What gives?

A bit more poking around and the truth is revealed; someone stole our host name for their own server and instructed the network people to have our server's name point to their server's IP address. Nice. And who did this? Why it's our manager, of course! Really nice! The mind boggles.