In which I keep you all up-to-date on all that I’m not doing!
I want a shiny new theme for this site that is both excellent and gorgeous, but I can’t find it. My graphics software is on my home machine and due to my exciting work and love life I never have time to do art, and I don’t like any theme out of the box and it all sucks and I’m sick of this theme.
On the subject of work, it’s freezing in the office and I generally wear a sweater and socks and slippers in order to not to get pneumonia. Outside, it’s August. The contrast is killing me. The work itself is, well, the work: I listen to people describe their problems, try to figure out what the hell they’re talking about, and fix it. Most of them are nice; some are rude; some are astonishingly, heart-breakingly stupid. But some of them love me, and send in emails telling management to give me perqs like – well, read it for yourself. Company cars and trips to Paris! They really, really love me!
I kinda like them too, truth be told. The only thing that would make this job better (besides moar munny) would be some chance for growth, but there’s really nowhere to go here. This isn’t an ISP as much as a connectivity reseller, so there’s no engineering department to transfer into or even a proper management echelon to claw through: the place is too small for that. In other words, I’m a first-tier support technician until I get bored and quit.
Normally I stave off boredom by carving myself niches (read: creating new departments); here, the best I can do is take on special projects that I only work on in between calls. Not really a career path, exactly, but I’ve been here nine months and I still like it. So, we’ll see. There’s always that flight attendant thing.
My love life is rockin’. We’re out of the hostage-taking phase and I sleep at home a few nights a week now, just like a real girl. We adore each other, are both complete card-carrying dorks, and it’s damn groovy. We’re going to Kelly’s tonight to bitch about work and possibly eat some fried foodz! Yay!
In other news, I tried to install Linux on the ThinkPad today, and it was an epic fail.
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teh customerz luv Mush almost as much as vuboq does.
smoochez
hmmm… vuboq does not like how teh asterisks made his smoochez all italicy.
Is italicy like garlicky? -m
Awww… that last kudos is about you and the bf. How sweet! And over half of those are about YOU. You rock! 😀
I know, right! SO TEH CUTE! -m
I’ve been trying to get (Ubuntu, Kubuntu & Linux Mint) a form of Linux installed on to a crapy-ass PII that I have laying around, hopefully to make it into a file/print server. No dice. We live in parallel worlds…
I’m looking for a crappy-ass PIII at the moment to fulfill my desires.
If your hard drive is full, btw, keep in mind that Linux will only use the available space on the drive. If there is not enough for the os, it aborts.
But, that is probably not your problem, because you already knew that.
Le smooch, babe.
My problem was, I think, LAPTOP. No drivers. The whole ordeal is here. -m
congrats!! i hope you’ve gotten screen shots of that kudos page to include with your resumes to other places when you manage to get bored and tired.
Good idea! -m
You got me thinking that I need to install Linux on a machine soon to play with so I can get up to speed on it because our Linux expert won’t be back this winter when we do the Ice Carving competition. And we need Linux to run the webcam upload server. I’ll go do that today…got about 15 computers up and running here, 4 of them mine, should be able to find one of them that will run it.
Thanks!
Oh, and more kudos to you for all those kudos! And the only way to avoid the ‘bore-dum’ is to start your own company…
People who start their own companies? Work 80-hour weeks. Go install Linux! -m
That rocks Rochelle! Even the dude who got your name wrong loves you…I think they should give the two of you trips to Paris…You can tell them Paris Maine wouldn’t be as much moneez and then you could come stay with us!
LOL… no, we really have a Rochelle in the office. She sits next to me. Paris, Maine would rawk!!! -m
And I’d like to add:
Michelle saved me when I was going blind. She is a modern-day hero!