First post!

...of November.

Sorry I've been so lax in posting. I've been working ALL THE GODDAMNED DAY. No, really. I have been DREAMING of lighting myself on fire. Because that's about what my job boils down to these days. One upshot, is that my bosses have figured out a way to make me an effective manager of others: don't ever give me any time to think about it at all. Just pile so much fucking work on me that I don't have any CHOICE but to get a new guy ramped up and effective yesterday.

Also: I have a pager. Soon I will be selling 24x7 operational support in a region near you. You call me, we meet in some dark alley. You will give me money, and I'll give you sketchy computer advice. For an additional fee, I'll hang around while you implement my ideas. If something untoward happens, like a good operational support professional, I'll call you a cab and pour beer all over the front of your shirt. They'll never suspect me, that's why I'm a 'professional.'

Not kidding about the pager thing. I have one. I'm still 'configuring' it. How hard is it to configure a pager? You'd think it'd be just, turn it on and let the shit buzz when its due. That is highly naive of you. Highly naive. I have to do stuff like make database entries and wait for database replication and make updates to configuration files for programs that I DON'T UNDERSTAND. But still I carry on. Hurrah, hurrah.

I will be in town for the ENTIRE WEEK of Turkey-dom. This is gonna be weird. I imagine I will get the shakes on thursday or friday, curl up into a ball and just start rocking as I say, "I need some plane man, I need some plane bad. Any plane will do. I'll take a Cesna. An airbus even. And I hate the comedown on airbusses. You just feel like ass the next morning." Ahh, nothing better then making pointed jokes about drugs AND mocking the French.

ITS A GREAT GANG THAT GOES BLACKHAWK-GO!
(I swear, I wasn't a bad scout.)
- posted by Pat @ 5:53 PM