Day in the life
General May 12th, 2004
Andrew mentioned something about blogging at work, so I thought I would keep all today’s oddities until tonight. This gives Tony something to read at 6 in the morning too.
This morning I overslept through my alarm, and was awoken by Mix 94.5 80s at 8 song. Today, it was “Who’s Johnny?” by El Debarge. From 1986, used in the Johnny Five movies. And my day was down hill from there.
Went to see my realtor, and decided there aren’t any houses on the market right now I’m interested in. But it’s a busy market time, and a few houses come on the market every few days (in the two weeks I’ve been looking.) The problem is the houses I want (1500 sqft, garage, relatively new/good condition) are really hot on the market, and get sold very quickly. All in all, this house hunting thing is pretty stressful. So, the plan right now is to stay on top of the market for a while longer, and keep looking at homes for sale by owner, and see what happens.
On the way into work, I filled up for gas. I went to Amoco by Beckman, and man are those pumps slow. First, I had to prepay, and then the gas came out a dribble. Not to mention it was $2.09. Grrrrr. So I quit after just $10. That should last me a while just driving around town, and maybe gas prices will go down by then. Maybe. How many wars do we need to start in the middle east to get prices to drop?
In the parking lot, I saw a car with Alaska plates. If we were playing the license plate game, I would have gotten mucho points.
So after the disappointing meeting with the realtor, and the I-can-piss-faster gas tank, I really wanted some coffee. Siebel’s coffee shop is open, so I grabbed my mug and went down for a cappuccino. BUT NO, they were closed, because of a boil order on campus. The order was already lifted, but I guess the Bevande coffee shop didn’t open until the afternoon. BLAST.
The rest of the day was so so, while I dodged user questions, more accusations that the networking is broken when it’s just user error. (”I’m not getting any wireless in my office - is it broken?” “When’s the last time you rebooted?” “Oh, I don’t reboot, I just hibernate and unhibernate my computer all the time.” “Ahhhh..”) I’m using the slow time right now to update some of our old databases with the new networking switches. That’s requiring me to learn SNMP, and it’s not very well documented (at least the tools for an SNMP agent aren’t overly documented.) But by the end of the afternoon, I can tell you that OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.17.4.3.1.2 will give you the MAC address and ports on a system. Sweet. Now the challenge is to integrate the tools back together so we have a usable, searchable database.
This was also supposed to be a TSG bowling party afternoon, but we have so many people injured that we decided just to play some XBox and watch movies in the afternoon. We made a 3pm run to Custard Cup, and then took it easy the rest of the afternoon. MMMMmmmm custard cup. For the record, my Halo aiming is really, really out of practice.
Came home, played around with Gallery for pictures (for the website,) got caught up on the TiVo, and blogged. That’s a day in the life. And I hope you haven’t had El Debarge stuck in your head through it.
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