Archive for the ‘Work’ Category

Moving on…

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

A few days ago I got a call from an old friend who's employer needed what I thought was someone to maintain the company's websites. I agreed to meet for an interview with the idea that I would keep my current job and maintain these websites in my spare ...

Scions, sassy girls & linux

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

I got my Scion tC Monday morning! I've been driving it for two full days now and it still just doesn't feel quite right. It feels surreal. I suppose that is to be expected when one is taken out of a 13 year old car and immediately ...

school is officially back in session… after 10 years

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Today was the first day in ten years that I have sat in a classroom. I have to take Elementary Algebra, cause I forgot everything I knew about math. The credits don't even count towards anything. My instructor is full time active duty Air Force, and he teaches this ...

there should be a public service announcement before any node conversions

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

One of our clients in Destin, a large multi-office escrow and title company was without internet, email and their VPN connection to their other offices today. We didn't know this until the technicians from the cable company called us from the client's office. Apparently they had been out there sometime ...

I surrender

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

I gave in to my sickness today and called out of work. Or rather, emailed out of work. No one in my office is good with phones. If you call and make an appointment, you have about a 50-75% chance of getting prompt service. But if ...

And here I thought I’d be sitting behind a desk all day

Monday, August 15th, 2005

This morning we received a call from a client who was having trouble with one of the computers in her office. They use Terminal Services on a Windows 98 machine to login to a 2K server in the main office across the street and it wouldn’t connect. No ...

P.R. guys are such suck ups

Friday, August 12th, 2005

Some Trend Micro guys are here about a product review that Keith is doing on their new Enterprise Edition. They brought us Krispy Kreme doughnuts. They're cool in my book. EDIT: I just remembered the guys from McAfee that were here last week didn't bring shit. Jerks.