Why must I make things more complicated for myself?
So our contact with this company that maintains one of our external sites called, asking for a password that he probably already has on a post-it somewhere. I know said password and use it every month, but in the spirit of covering my ass, instead of just giving it to him, I contact our sysadmin (who’s in charge of logins) to either grant him access or tell him to %&@# himself.
I just checked the remedy ticket, and they’re prepping to reset the password and send the new one only to this guy. I’m going to lose access unless I scramble to intervene.
Why do I even try to do things the right way?
Read more...Anybody see the episode of the Simpsons last night with SSCAGAPWC (Singles, Senior Citizens, And Gays Against Parents With Children) against parents with children? A few months ago, I would have been on the opposite side of that conflict. :P
Read more...It's these darn stray time rifts...
There was a sign posted on one of the stalls in the bathroom at work: “Temporally Out of Order.”
Read more...After a grueling 3-day weekend moving into Diana’s place, I’m ready to chill for a bit. Too bad I have to organize a garage sale for this weekend. :P Hope y’all will understand if turnaround on communications takes a while.
Read more...Unusual traffic spotted recently...
Seen by me: -A trailer carrying four dozen 6’ x 5’ x 3” sandstone slabs, presumably for use in decorative walls. -A trailer carrying an Army helicopter chassis, with the blades, nose, and tail removed and a bright orange sticker of a face with a sly, sharp-toothed smile on the front.
Seen by Diana: -A black van escorted by six men riding black motorcycles, dressed all in black, with black helmets, all bearing the American Express ExpressPay logo.
Read more...The one nice thing about all-day meetings...
…is that you get to watch a room full of people you once found imposing slowly lose their composure over the course of 9 hours.
At least we’re getting a lot done. My company introduced this big fancy project planning procedure, but now it seems like we’re using fast-track methods like this on every project to get around it. :P
Read more...I got turned down for the Web Developer spot. :( I was planning to turn them down, but it’s still a bruise to the ego.
Oh, well, I wouldn’t have hired me either. :P I’m not exactly fluent in the technologies they’re after. And the department manager left open the possibility of applying again in the future, so I must have at least been a front runner.
Read more...My profuse thanks to the little bird that told Diana to get me Ninja Gaiden for my birthday. I can’t begin to tell you how fucking cool this game is.
Read more...Belts and watches are suddenly too tight. Am I gaining weight?!
Read more...I sometimes make little mistakes when giving commands to open files in Perl, and the result is usually empty files with snippets of Perl code as their names lying around my hard drive. I just deleted a file named “update_properties(@objects)” from my work folder…
Wonder how long before I overwrite an essential OS file? :P
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