There’s a whole lot of stuff I could write here about how I’ll never see quite a few members of that family again. Also, something sad happened, because I found out Nana’s “Pa” died. Maybe I’ll write about some of it soon when I feel like a lengthy post.
Oct 292008
Oct 272008
There’s been a phishing exploit making the rounds on Facebook. Someone just messaged me with it, so I’m putting out a PSA:
If someone messages you with the text:
“hey , check out this blog.. it’s hilarious [URL Omitted]“
Do not click it! It will take you to a fake facebook site, which will then steal your login information.
Oct 262008
I’ll be away for a day or two. Nanny was my last grandparent. I was never really close, but I’m going to be spending a good bit of time supporting my family. Gotta go pick up my sister from the airport in a few hours.
Oct 242008
The winner of the company’s fall carnival poker tournament is…hell yeah, that’s right! *flex*
Oct 222008
A few other things have been going on while I’ve been writing that Silent Hill feature, but for once I didn’t want my next post prediction to be wrong. Also, that thing was ridiculously long.
We had to let yet another person go at Swerdlin. This means Travis and I (and our coworker Eric) have now taken over the IT department from the inside. It’s our show now. This is much better, honestly. There will be no more random unplugging of the phone system…you know, rather than list everything here in public, let’s just say no more random crap in general.
Which doesn’t mean there won’t be our fair share of work insanity, it’s just going to be much more awesome and less “Whyyyyyyyyy.” For instance, this week we rack mounted our last two servers that we didn’t have rails for (long story). One of them was our main Oracle server that can’t be taken offline without, essentially, shutting down the company. Complicating the issue was the fact that this particular server had been mounted on UPS rails previously. The common joke describing the difference between doctors and mechanics is that mechanics don’t have to work on a car while it’s running. In that case, IT must be somewhere at the halfway point between the two, because we successfully moved this thing in the middle of the day, during production, without unplugging it from the wall or the network. The process involved slowly lifting it up and perching it on reams of paper, one at a time; the reams of paper would be placed on the top of the server below it. The old rails were then removed and the new ones screwed in. It looked something like this:
This is why paperless offices will never work.
The overall atmosphere at work has already improved greatly. I apologize to anyone I’ve not spoken to as much out there in the interwebs during the transition, though. Lately the last thing I’ve wanted to do when I got home was sit in front of a computer.
I have one last funny story to tell, but that’ll wait for yet another post…
This entire feature is going to be a bit of a bitch fest. Spoiler alert.
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Oct 132008
Another update. I’ve been driving and working for awhile now, but I’m still trying to limit undo time on the computer, so I haven’t had much time for Jux updates. My eyes are still not perfect but they are healing fine, according to Dr. Gabianelli as of this morning.
My next post will probably be a long one about what is wrong with Silent Hill: Homecoming compared to what came before it.
Oct 022008
I just sent this:
Mr. Biden,
Before the debate tonight I knew you as a solid senator, but no real ‘pros’ or ‘cons’ against you. I had little idea as to whether or not I supported you as one of the very few “good ones” or not. When Barack Obama, one of only two political candidates I ever donated money to, selected you to be his vice presidential candidate I thought it was a safe choice but more or less a neutral one.
After watching you tonight my opinion of you has changed entirely, and for the better. You answered questions factually, you answered them directly, and more importantly you actually care about your positions. At no point did I get the feeling you were talking down or sideways, even on those issues I disagree with you about.
I’ll keep this short since I know this will likely never get past your aides anyway, but I wanted to let you know that before tonight I was firmly and proudly voting for Barack Obama in November. Now I’m going to be proud that your name is also on that ticket. Seeing how well you handled yourself tonight, combined with what I knew as flat facts about your record, has convinced me that you are a person I want in the White House.
Thank you.
–
Graeme K. Hefner
Also, I can now use a computer for more than ten minutes at a time! I’m up to about two hours today, with eye strain rest. My eyes are getting better! I may be able to leave my apartment this weekend! Sadly, I can’t declare this my true return to the internet yet. Stay tuned for that.
