The occasional musings of Andy Scheffler
The IS guy still isn’t here. I can’t get ahold of him via phone or email. It’s time to pull the next step in any corporate environment.
I’m gonna have my boss call his boss. That’ll light a fire under his rear.
(Man, at least he could have the decency to send an email to tell my why he hasn’t shown up all day)
So it’s 3:30, and the IS Guy isn’t here yet. He’s not answering his phone or responding to email, but I know he’s here today because he dropped of the machine this morning before I got here.
I’m afraid to leave my desk for the shortest amount of time, because I know he’ll show up when I’m gone.
I really have to go the bathroom.
So I’m supposed to get my FreeBSD machine at work upgraded, but there seems to be some sort of disconnect between the IS guy and me. So here I am, spending almost half my day so far with my old machine off, waiting for him to show up and plug in the other computer that’s just sitting in my cube.
It’s about now that I realize how much I hated my job when I didn’t have the UNIX machine on my desk. It’s very difficult to do my job with only Windows NT to help me. Especially when I’m in the middle of doing mundane tasks and I click on a link in IE, and the entire OS crashes. Blue Screen of Death. Yay Microsoft.
Die Die Die Die Die.
I have developed an addiction to Jones Soda‘s Diet Cream Soda. A co-worker bought a case of it and stocked the fridge here at work. After doing some research on the web as to where to find it around me, I discovered some very interesting things about the soda.
First of all, there are pictures on each of the labels, over a thousand by now, and they’re all submitted by the consumers at the website. Then there’s the unofficial library of all of the label pictures, and people actually collect all of the labels.
I’m just keen on the whole sucralose sweetener. I just hope I can find the diet cream soda locally, I’d hate to have to buy it online.
I need an option on my Yahoo! Profile under “Marital Status” that’s not “Single And Looking” or “Single, Not Looking.”
Something along the lines of “Single And Bitter.”
I just cancelled my OmniSky account (wireless modem for my Palm V). I wasn’t using it enough to warrant $33 a month.
But just two days ago I went and bought 250MB of disk space from Yahoo! Website to store my images on so my DSL doesn’t blow up whenever someone looks at my webpage, so that about cancels out.
But at least now I’m helping keep my employer in business.
So I get one, then two, then three birthday reminders all in a row from LiveJournal.
So, happy birthday
Ever have one of those days where you wake up with a headache, your hair looks like a toupee after you comb it, your teeth ache after you brush them, you start typing the wrong homonyms (‘to’ instead of ‘too’), then the Internet starts getting all wonky and websites start going down?
Welcome to Tuesday.
I have discovered that there is an informal betting pool going on here at work every morning as to when I’m going to arrive, and what t-shirt I’m going to be wearing.
I pondered coming in at 8 a.m. wearing a shirt and tie one morning just to throw them for a loop, but then I realized that would involve both waking up at 7 a.m. and wearing a shirt and tie.
Sometimes I just feel like I’m standing still and the rest of the world is moving past me.