I decided to go against the grain and actually post something. Not much to update just yet, although good stuff is in the works.
News: Finally got my CCNA. I have yet to be reimbursed for the test costs, but it’s good to get that under my belt.
Not news: Still working in the same position, but we have a couple of massive contracts pending. If they go through they’ll be needing more engineers, and I’m first in line.
Random: Music video about russian culture:
A++, would buy again.
I’ll try to write more often. Not because I think I have anything interesting to say, mostly just because I like hearing myself say it.
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So I got bored and impulsive on Tuesday.
It’s a stylized version of the greek letter Phi, got it on the inside of my right forearm. It represents the Golden Ratio. I got the design from a similar one I found surfing around. For the lazy, it’s a number that shows up all over the place in math, science, nature, art, architecture, etc. I wanted something nerdy that didn’t look nerdy at a glance. This worked out well for me. I’d been wanting to get something for a long while, and I’m happy with my choice. The place I got it at was cleaner and brighter inside than some dentist offices I’ve been in, I was very impressed. Didn’t hurt at all really, a scratch from Dezzy hurts more.
EDIT – Turns out the author of the blog I saw this image on is the original artist. You get so used to seeing the same tattoos cross-linked across every site, you just assume the real artists get lost in the mix. Thanks to the “links to here” section of the WordPress dashboard, I saw the post from the original artist on his blog upon finding out someone actually went out and put his work on their body.
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Saw hellboy 2 last night. I dont normally comment on movies, but this one was a lot of fun. I expected it to just be a cheesy action flick, but it was much more pleasing. Guillermo Del Toro did an amazing job with the directing and monsters as he always does, better than normal on the creatures in my opinion. The plot and acting was less cheesy than the first Hellboy (which I did like, was just a little less developed), and the characters were more human. It gets my action flick seal of approval.
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Yesterday I went in to see the dermatologist that’s been keeping tabs on me since friday. I think I’m a pet project of his since I’m more interesting than the normal grade of skin issues. He said I looked to be bouncing back from everything much faster than he expected, so he backed off on one of my perscriptions. He also perscribed an even longer course of antibiotics though, just to make sure the strep was dead. I whined about this a little since antibiotics tend to make me smell funny. He asked me if I’d rather smell a little off for a few weeks or have another outbreak. Before I could answer the obvious he holds up a finger and starts writing on a perscription pad, “I have just the thing” he said. He tore off the pad and handed it to me… all it said was “axe body spray”. Sometimes I miss the ridiculously obvious.
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They’ve been “testing” the fire alarm system for a week and change here for some reason. I asked a friend that worked at the company who owns the building we lease space from, and he has no idea why they’ve been doing it. Basically the alarm will sound and strobes will go off, then abruptly stop. This will happen a half dozen times, then someoen will come on the loudspeaker and state that they will be performing testing. Yeah, makes as much sense to me too. This has been going on all day every day for nearly two weeks. The thought had crossed my mind “what if there was a real fire?”. Sure enough a few days ago there were fire engines and stuff outside. Apparently there was a for-reals fire somewhere in the building and they were evacuating. We only found out about it when a coworker came into the ops center and told us that people were collecting in the mini-park out front. The general consensus was that at this point we were going to stay in the building out of spite, and jump out a window if we ended up actually having to leave.
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There was recently a big issue with this one customer of ours, and the job to drive the ticket through AT&T fell in my lap. I spent around 90 minutes fighting with them to even get a ticket opened, and finally got to a person who could find the circuit I was calling in. They were reluctant to build the ticket, and I expressed to them that in the time I spent bouncing around in their system the ticket was escalated to a very high level. They asked what level that was. I replied “It’s been escalated to puppy kicking status. We have a whole lineup of puppies here, and we’re going to have to start kicking them soon if nothing gets done on this. I don’t want to kick them, but it’s part of their process. So please try and get moving on this”.
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ATTN – Working public: If you use instant messaging at work, please disable sounds on it. Your coworkers hate hearing about it every time you send and receive a message. No seriously, I want to murder you after a solid hour of listening to your IM sounds. I’m only half kidding. Get some headphones if you’re still tickled by the novelty of it all.
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I had a savant moment just now at work. I fixed this one device by adding a line in its running configuration that wasn’t there before because it “looked right”. I can’t explain my reason for adding the line, I’ve never messed with that part of a router’s config before. I don’t know exactly why it fixed it. It wasn’t till after I had done it and was writing an email to the customer that I realized I had no idea why I’d made the change, it just “made sense” while I was doing it. I’m not sure whether it’s a good sign or a bad sign… I’d certainly rather have a clue but I guess I’ll take any flavor of success.
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Happy zombie-Jesus day everyone! And Easter as well if you celebrate that. I hope you all have a good time with your respective families, and that your parents still get you jelly beans and shit. Because let’s face it, jelly beans are awesome no matter how old you are, even if you have to hunt down little plastic eggs to amuse your parents. Everybody wins!
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