Archive for the ‘ work ’ Category

It’s all about the cucumber sandwiches.

Wow, its been a very long time since my last post. Of course it is entirely my fault for not taking the time to sit down and put my thoughts into text. So here it goes: This is the first weekend I’ve had off in three weeks. Working 10-12 hour days, 7 days a week [ READ MORE ]

Down and out in Midland, Texas

  • June 10th, 2005
  • Posted in work

Those log entries came in non stop starting yesterday morning. 24 hours later the office’s Internet connection is completely down. SBC arrived here yesterday around ~3pm and starting looking for the cause of the intermittent signal loss. Turns out the cableling on the utility poles has corroded and needs to be replaced. Fast forward 9am [ READ MORE ]

Music meme

This is the first time I’ve seen this only for blogs, usually stuff like this is forwarded back and forth to people and friends via email. So I might as well give it a whirl and see where it goes. Total volume of music files on my computer: About 65GB of mp3/ogg music files accessible [ READ MORE ]

No Carrier

  • March 25th, 2005
  • Posted in work

A few weeks ago the company’s ISP switched their upstream backbone connection to the Internet. They “said” things would go smoothly and we wouldn’t notice any down time since the switch would be done at 2am in the morning. Needless to say the morning they did the switch things didn’t go as they had planned. [ READ MORE ]

7am – To Do List

  • September 23rd, 2004
  • Posted in work

At work I am pretty much constantly busy throughout the day. Here is a short list of items that are on my to do list on any given day: Check to make sure nightly backup job ran without errors. Exchange backup cart. with the next days cartridge Make sure essential network services are on line [ READ MORE ]

A Rain Dance, a Headache, and a List

What a past couple of days it has been… Here in West Texas it has been raining pretty much non-stop since Saturday. Along with all of the rain the high temperature has been at an all time low for this region: in the 60s. I really liked that fact. It’s nice to be able to [ READ MORE ]

An April Fool’s Shark Tank

  • April 1st, 2004
  • Posted in work

Shark Tank: Well, it IS April 1, after all Everybody gets along pretty well in this Army IT office. Well, almost everybody, says a pilot fish in uniform. “We had an associate who thought he knew everything but really didn’t,” fish says. “It’s not like we didn’t make him feel at home — he just [ READ MORE ]