Nick Postagulous
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
Lots of Setting Up Computer, Very Little Actual Work
And that's not just me installing stuff on my computer taking up time. First, I installed something. Then a guy from GIS showed up and installed something. Then while he was doing that two guys from HU showed up to install something, but they needed an ITS guy to type in a route thingy. Oh, and why them and not me? Cause I'm not an administrator anymore. I'm just a poweruser. That sucks. Later, and ITS guys showed up to help with Steve's computer. And I get him to put the route in on mine. Then I install some more stuff. Then I back everything up once it's all in place. Then we back up Steve's. Then we copy new dispatch clients onto the gal's machines, as the ones that they had know the wrong computer name for Steve's computer (and that's easier than configuring them). Then there was issues with the director's machine. Then I stayed over fixing something on the director's machine, then I think something on my machine, then I investigated some crazy crap in the HU database. Then I went home.
Fine, I Won't Recycle!
I have a magnet in my office about how late the Solid Waste Disposal Authority is open. Well, that and it's contact info. So, when I left the office at around 3:50, I went there since I had brought our old monitor to throw at them. But as I drove up, a car was leaving. The guy hit a button and the gate closed. And there was a sign, saying they closed at 3:20. Well, forget it. I chucked the monitor in the trash can when I got home.
Besides, the remediation method is to melt the lead and mix it with "fly ash" so that it's like concrete and then bury it. The lead in my monitor is going to melt and mix with all the ashes that the incinerator makes out of the rest and all the other municipal waste that surrounds it. Or so I was told by a co-worker.
400% Markup On My House?
A dude at my work, who regardless of his high rank, is full of crap generally, said that the developer who built our subdivision and house, builds the $130k houses in the subdivision about a mile north of me for $30k. He swears it's true. But this guy has lied to me about his ability to solve Rubik's cubes before. And hey, I'm tellin' ya, you just don't lie about the cube, man.
