Today I discovered St. Helena island on Google Maps accidentally, and then learned all about it on Wikipedia.

You?

I was off..but last time I worked, I drove about 27 miles and only found one car to stop.

I had a surprise meeting that ended up being entirely nonessential, spent $34,000, had someone come in my office and yell at me for something I didn't do, I got pissed off because one of my employees sassed me in front of my colleagues, gave someone a 72 hours suspension, and had two oatmeal raisin cookies the receptionist brought.

I slept.

I need a job.

I haven't worked in weeks.
****ing cutbacks, need a new job.

Wrote a report. Updated a powerpoint. Yaaaaayyyyy

Ironic that this was posted today. I "worked" from home today due to the streets here in North Texas looking like ice rinks.

And before anyone says that people in Texas (or the southern states in general for that matter) overreact regarding icy/snowy conditions...well yes they do, but the problem is the cities don't react at all. They are never prepared - which is usually why the situation is far worse than it should be. Other places that tend to see a lot more snowfall or ice have preparations in place to help resolve the issue, but Texas? No. We just throw some sand on top and call it a day.

That sounds like VT.

Some spreadsheets, a bid, finally got my email up and running, put up a poster and a cool calendar on my wall, got this really cute wireless mouse my boss bought for me the other day.

We were supposed to go to Georgetown Cupcakes for our lunch break, but because my boss's boss was there, we didn't.

I did stuff I can't say because I'm under an non-disclosure agreement. It was very boring through, followed by very slow, which is how I like it right now.

I wrote a NeS post, though. Yay!

Read the news, scour a bunch of random Wikipedia articles, look up a bunch of movies on imdb, stare at my monitor (while daydreaming), and work a little (programming).

I went in a few hours late because of the sheet of ice outside.. there was an hour meeting as soon as I walked in the door.. Then I listened to some pandora and browsed massassi for a little while.. did some work.

Woods/structures lecture at the crack of dawn, then lab, then listened to a prospective professor give aloud his resume and cover letter... he looked exactly like David Xanatos...

breezed through poetry comp and ethnomusicology, which usually takes way too long for what should be an interesting class (classmates are zombies; the prof and I are the only real musicians there >_<).

Helped a doctoral student by taking a survey about beer 'n' Facebook.

Went to give a piano lesson; brand new student was a no-show for second week in a row, no contact made.
Screw 'im. I actually see my 'good' student tomorrow, which is nice.

I worked on reproducing a bug that's occurring in our POS system. Looked through the code, pulled in a system from a customer's store, looked at some other store files, and worked through our POS system trying to reproduce it. I still haven't yet. Much better when I get to write code and not debug it.

Ice in the midwest, I was told to not bother to come to work.

Today I replaced a hydraulically operated check valve for our magazine sprinkler system, modified and installed a cypher lock on our Combat Systems Equipment Room door, helped install and configure a printer to work with our Next Generation Peripheral, and simulated firing several missiles from our aft vertical launcher for part of our VLS certification. That was before lunch... After my 15 minute lunch break, I installed 26 deluge control valves in our forward vertical launcher, then finished painting our Strikedown Equipment Room from Eggshell White to Bright White.

Managed to get through the entire second DVD of Firefly when nothing was going on. Also did some homework and read a little.
Then an hour before my shift ended the entire system shut down which resulted in some actual work.

I get to do it all over again in a few hours.

One of my jobs is teaching guitar lessons, and one of my favourite things to do (which I got to do today) is play Eruption to teenagers who have never heard of Van Halen.

Must be nice, I almost killed myself in the parking lot.. Forgot my ice skates

How dare you assume I work!

I don't have a job but at school today I sexually harassed three girls and none of them seemed repulsed by the idea.

This is going to be a good semester. One is even foreign.

Vibes?

Replied to an e-mail really shouldn't have needed to be written.

And then in school today I did and learned nothing.

It's not every day I vibe for sexual harassment. That's a bizarre sentence.

Your post is vague but I will assume you are rooting for me.

Thanks girlfriend, lady vibes are the best vibes for this sort of thing.


...wow...

Exactly. So I'll vibe for your sexual harassment, you can appreciate my lady vibes, and I think everyone involved (and uninvolved) can walk away pretending this conversation never happened.

Got to work late, spent two hours working on part of our system that records digital forensics of suspected malware, then took a plane to L.A. for 3 days of meetings/conferences starting tomorrow.

Spent the first half working on a Java EE app, and then I got kicked permanently off the VPN because I wasn't directly supporting clients, so I spent the latter half of the day reading about Jython.

Made some stickers, printed some signs. Pretty much a standard work day for me.

Sat around switching between the fryers and the grill.
Taught some newbie her job because she thought it was "hard to drop fries"
Yeah the fast-food life is so much fun when your an aspiring manager lol.

A lot of people don't do a lot...

helped train a new person, stood around, watched the wind start blowing crap across the parking lot


on the way to work i saw a beat up white cargo van with Disney Cars characters painted on it...

I'm standardising applications for board members, which basically means critiquing the careers of people > 20 years my senior. It's slow going and really difficult, but quite interesting.

However, the past few weeks I've not had enough to do so I've become really addicted to constantly rotationally checking gmail, reader, facebook and here; and I'm currently re-reading all of xkcd (backwards). So yeah, my productivity isn't great.

So one thing I've always wondered.. what do you folks do when you're sitting in a speed trap all day? Do you just chew the fat on the police radio, catch up on paperwork, play DS?

I took a paper from a box, opened Microsoft Excel, put the information from the paper into the spreadsheet, saved the document, took another paper, created a new Excel document, put the information from the paper into the spreadsheet, saved the document, took another paper...

Crated/boxed up a 7900$ laser... Woo!
Packaged several other items, not as neat as the laser.
Printed invoices and scheduled a pickup with UPS.
Then not a whole lot.

1- Began to assign fiber ports to trunk a couple blade switches in new chassis up to the fabric but the management consoles weren't connecting, so kicked back to the network team to make sure the copper ports were turned up.

2- Designed a deallocation of legacy SAN storage from a server cluster after its migration to a new vendor's array.

3- Revisited a page I got at 4 this morning with our account's IT director confirming that although one path on a development server had been lost due to hardware failure on an EMC array, there was still redundancy and no client impact.

4- Wrote a frumpy email to my lead about a particular account who keeps insisting on submitting multiple changes to us [ie both dedicated space on hosts within a server cluster and shared space for the entire cluster], despite that the tool can only handle one of those types of request at once, so they're asking for three changes for the price of one and also that we need to manually design the allocation to cater to their laziness.

5- Repeated variations on Step 2 several times for a couple other servers.

6- Drank coffee. Ate spicy burrito. Drank soda.

And this is all by 0900!

No work yesterday due to snow and no work today due to it being too cold.

i'll let you know when I have a job again.

in other news, it'll probably be: walk to class, read a bit, meeting, read, class, print, come home and clean.

Got yelled at.

Happens regularly.