In which I finally post! I really don’t know what my problem is; I mean I have all this free time and everything, I just never blog anymore. Also: I use the phrase “fucking awesome” far too many times in this post. This is what’s great about my new job: there’s actual work to do. […]
In which unemployment continues apace. I got laid off three and a half weeks ago. I have no idea how it’s been three and a half weeks already, but it has. I’ve been catching up on little projects, like throwing shit out and/or taking it to Goodwill and getting all the laundry done and folded […]
In which I’m totally outta there and it hasn’t even been four days. For some reason I got my final pay (56 hours regular, 40 vacation, and 30 severance) direct deposited almost immediately. Today my final pay stub came in the mail. My ex-employer has contacted me exactly only once to ask a question. Wow. […]
In which I’m unemployed again. In September of 2011 I had just finished a networking certificate at the community college and was beginning to freak out because my unemployment benefits were running out. Three days before they did, my ex-employer tracked me down and offered me a job with okay pay and a decent title. […]
In which I’m looking forward to the weekend. Work’s been slow lately. I’ve been stymied trying to migrate websites from one server to another because my fucking end users can’t update their DNS; it’s beyond rocket surgery to these people. “But… but… why can’t you do it?” they whine. “Because I DON’T HOST YOUR FUCKING […]
In which I go on and on about a boring topic. Most of my waking life is spent at work, and so it’s a topic pretty high up in my awareness. Whenever I think of composing a post lately, it starts with the topic of work and devolves into a rant I’ve already written a […]
In which there’s a tech support puzzle for you to solve. A customer calls in because she can’t send email. She can receive email and she can surf, so the connection is up. I walk her through the settings in the email client and have her correct the following: – SMTP server name field (it had had […]
In which we’ve moved. Keef has been hosting goblinbox.com for free for years on a sandbox server he had co-located somewhere in California. That box finally got compromised. (I’m surprised it took as long as it did, honestly.) He decided to take the box down since he wasn’t really using it, so I had to […]
In which I go through such absurdity with women customers sometimes. [dropcap]P[/dropcap]hone rings. I answer. “Tech support. May I help you?” Woman’s voice, in full-on baby talk mode: “I have an iPhone. I can’t send mail.” Me: “Oh, yeah, I’ve heard of that. Apple seems to assume that all outgoing mail servers use SSL, but […]
In which apparently I am too busy. [dropcap]I[/dropcap] check my website daily to see if anything’s happening. I think some part of me seriously expects to find brilliant posts that I haven’t written enjoying all kinds of comments and traffic. In lieu of content, this:
