The Big 100

Well I went in and weighed myself this morning, I have now officially lost 100 pounds since I graduated from HS! How exciting is that.

And that was with shoes and clothes on… Usually I wiegh myself in just underwear. So I’m probably actually more like 164 or so. But who’s counting! lol.

I was excited.

Anyways, I swear that Nazanin reads my journal, the last couple days she’s been overly nice and hasn’t complained about any of my ideas. Very strange…. She’s gone for the rest of the day, so I’m going to spend it reading/learning about the diferent Linux distros, cause I have to find a new one since Redhat is being bitches.

I’m thinking we’ll just stay with Fedora, though I would like to go to something else. Like Gentoo, or maybe a BSD variant. But as I’ve stated before, the people we’re hiring don’t have the experience to learn that before I leave. And I would feel bad leaving them with such things and not knowing how to use it.

Anyways, I’ve had my last lecture in two of my classes this week. MIS 435 and MGMT are both done with lecturing. We still have class, and stuff… Well actually MIS 435 is pretty much completely over with. After Monday, I’ll have everything done, so I can stop going tell after break. Plus he’s already cancelled classes for both this W and next W. So that’s good times. MGMT 414, we have discussions tell the R before break, then we have a test on that R. After break it’s group prsentations. Soo goood times. Things are really starting to slow down and wind up. Which is good.

Other then that, not much really going on in my life. We’re now 6 days, 15 hours 52 minutes from the time that Andrew’s plane lands in Chicago. I’m WAY excited.!!!!!!

No One Listens

I’ve been feeling a bit run down lately. Mostly thing about my job/school work.

The job sucks lately. I don’t know what I’m doing, I have no direction. Nazanin has no idea how to manage people, and absolutely no people skills. She doesn’t listen to recomendations, and she has no idea what she’s talking about. Yet she doesn’t listen to the people that do know what they are talking about. She’s wastefull and doesn’t move her ass or decide on anything. I think I’m going to sit her down and have a chat with her, because I can’t take this anymore.

She had me set up this one rack, so that everything fit into it. Then after I had it all done, changes her mind about it all, and just very annoying. I don’t want to go into it all again. But today I got an e-mail from Jesse saying… “Nazanin and I were busy moving stuff around in the server room” Which means they re-did what I had done, and it’s just VERY VERY ANNOYING!

I’m really not looking forward to going into work tomorrow.

I’m stressed about classes, my group is being fairly confusing about what exactly I’m supposed to do for Sunday. I really have no idea. I guess I’ll write something, and if it’s not right, then we can redo it then.

MIS Is going good, I mean, the paper’s nearly… Well alright only 1/3 done. But whatever, it won’t be long. Group isn’t helping any, and it’s very annoying. I mean, they’re stupid. Hot, but stupid. So I guess I can deal. I think it’d make it more worth it if I didn’t have a boyfriend, and I could make out with the hot one.

Speaking of the Boyfriend. It’s going good. I’m way excited to see him, and well, it’ll be really good for my emotional causes to get to hang out with him again. Friday is going to be a way long day, as is Saturday. Sunday I hope will consist of mostly hanging around and doing not much, maybe a movie or two, and a good home cooked meal. I was thinking of maybe making some homemade ice cream too, but I think it might be too cold.

I had a dream last night about Andrew as well. It was nice, and yet kinda scary all at the same time. We were old.

I woke up, alarm clock. Didn’t want to go to class. I wanted to lay there and dream some more. Because it was a good dream. But had to get up and go to class.

Class was cancelled of course. Bus, cold. Long ride.

Work, annoyed the hell out of me. Though i did get printing semi-working. So that’s good, I guess.

Anyways. I’m out. Grrr.

Laters all.

What I Need

Mr. Baker,

As an employee of an institution of higher education, I have a few very
basic expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superior
shares an intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel. After your
consistent and annoying harassment of myself, and my co-workers during
the commission of our duties, I can only surmise that you are one of
the few true genetic wastes of our time.

Asking me, a network administrator, to explain every little nuance of
everything I do each time you happen to stroll into my office is not
only a waste of time, but also a waste of precious oxygen. I was hired
because I know about Unix, and you were apparently hired to provide
amusement to myself and other employees, who watch you vainly attempt
to understand the concept of “cut and paste” for the hundredth time.

You will never understand computers. Something as incredibly simple as
binary still gives you too many options. You will also never
understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it to you,
even though I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you what an
IP is.

Your shiny new iMac has more personality than you ever will. You walk
around the building all day, shiftlessly looking for fault in others.
You have a sharp-dressed, useless look about you that may have worked
for your interview, but now that you actually have responsibility, you
pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will cover for
your glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are the
blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughs at. Managers like
you are a sad proof of the Dilbert principle.

Seeing as this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a
full frontal lobotomy, I am forced to tender my resignation; however I
have a few parting points:

1. When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal to
give me a bad recommendation. The most you can say to hurt me is “I
prefer not to comment.” I will have friends randomly call you over the
next couple of years to keep you honest, because I know you would be
unable to do it on your own.

2. I have all the passwords to every account on the system, and I know
every password you have used for the last five years. If you decide to
get cute, I am going to publish your “favorites list”, which I
conveniently saved when you made me “back up” your useless files. I
believe that terms like “Lolita” are not usually viewed favorably by
the administration.

3. When you borrowed the digital camera to “take pictures of your
mothers B-day”, you neglected to mention that you were going to take
pictures of yourself in the mirror nude. Then you forgot to erase them
like the techno-moron you really are. Suffice it to say I have never
seen such odd acts with a ketchup bottle, but I assure you that those
have been copied and kept in safe places pending the authoring of a
glowing letter of recommendation. (Try to use a spell check please – I
hate having to correct your damn mistakes.)

Thank you for your time, and I expect the letter of recommendation on
my desk by 8:00 am tomorrow, not ONE minute later. One word of this to
anybody and all of your little twisted repugnant obsessions will be
open to the public. Never f*ck with your systems administrators, because
they know what you do with all your free time.

—-

I sure felt like writing something along these lines today. Grrr At my life.

Hot Bus Driver

So what has Chris been up to all weekend??

Sitting in computer labs, writing papers, drinking coffee and studying for tests.

That sums it up, so unless you want details. Stop there. 😛

So lets see, Friday I didn’t really do anything, I came home, rented a movie, it was really stupid. Called Startup.com. It was a total waste of time.

The dell guy didn’t have any other answers by the way. So I bitched at him for a while about that. Then talked to Ron about the new part-timers that Nazanin’s looking at hiring. I hope she picks the right guy. The two guys that she had there, weren’t at all good people for the job. One had NO experience. So again, same boat as what I had with the people we have now, the other was a total windows freak.

Anyways, Saturday I got up and spent the whole day/afternoon in the carver computer lab. Got 7 pages done for my MIS paper. So that’s good. Also researched a lot of other stuff.

Got kicked out at 6. Who knew they closed??

Came home, ate and then headed down to JJ’s for a while. Stopped at home shortly. They have a new piano. Who’s going to use it? No one. Waste.

Good time at JJ’s though It was very sad. There was a new group of gay boys in the seats that our princess crew used to sit at. They were so much like us. We’ve all moved on and been replaced by a younger generation. Lets hope they do well.

The whole experience of being downtown again was sad. I hadn’t been there in so long, and yet it was all still the same, just younger people there. Very weird.

It made me excited to move, but at the same time. I’m really going to miss JJ’s and just hanging out in Downtown DM.

Came home, and crashed for the night.

Today, got up, and went back to Carver. Spent a large part of the day there. Came home for a couple hours, and didn’t really do much here. Got CVS back up and working though. So that’s good.

Went back to Carver about 6ish and had a group meeting. Done with that at 8, with nothing accomlished. I’m kinda scared for that paper.

Now I’m home again.

I swear that all the hot bus drivers work on the weekends. Cause every bus that I’ve been on today, has had a REALLY hot boy driving it. Usually it’s fat nasties. lol

Also, I’ve talked to Andrew a lot this weekend, it’s been really nice.

Especially the phone call I got last night about midnight, that was really sweet. And I can’t wait to get to see him again!!! 😀

And with that, I’m out.

Laters all.

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Isn’t it about time for that show to end???

Why’s it so COLD!?!?

Today’s been a bit arrravating. I guess.

Things overall have been going good, much better then the start of the week.
So that’s a plus. But other things havn’t been going so good.

Last week sometime, Andrew got me started on my dream, once again. Owning a
consulting firm, a specialized one. I talked to Barb today about it, and she
said she deffinitally thinks there’s going to be a market for it. So that’s
promising information. Though she says that what I want to do, I’ll have to
do a lot of volunteer work to get started into it. In other words, I have to
get my foot in the door by doing it for free to start, and then move on to
charging, and actually getting the business aspect of it going.

She did give me a lot of tips though as to how to get into it, and also how to
get started in it. Also told me of some classes that I should take, either at
a Community college, or a junior college. I woudn’t have to go to a real
college, or get another degree. Just get some expertise in some other areas
of the business which I want to get into.

She also said that I may be to limiting in wanting to focus on Open Source
solutions. Because the clientele that I’m looking at is very bad at changing
things. But I think that I can get it into their heads. I just have to have
the authority to do it. Whereas here, I don’t have that authority. Also good
news was that she has contacts in the area that I’m looking at going moving
too, so that’ll also help with getting my foot in the door.

Anyways, the aggravting part of the day was Nazanin. We got the second rack in
today, and also a few other things. I have my ideas of how it should be set
up, and it’s the way that this thing SHOULD be set up. She on the other had
has stupid ideas of how it should be done. Very annoying. She won’t listen to
me at all about it.

I also found out that she doesn’t like the way that my office is set up and
she wants to re-arrange it. Not from her, but from someone else. I have a
feeling that one of these days, I’m going to come into my office and find it
all completely changed. I won’t be happy about that.

I moved my office to the way that it is now, because I was sick of people
coming in behind me and scaring the shit out of me. I was also very VERY sick
of her, because she would always come in and stand right behind me and just
stare over my shoulder and not say/do anything. It was very annoying and I
hated it.

If she wants to know what I’m doing, all she has to do is ask!!!

Now I’m on the phone with Dell Tech support, because our Harmony server is
VERY VERY loud. I mean, yeah, rack mount servers are supposed to be fairly
loud. But this one is very unaceptable loud. So I’ve called them three or
four times, and complained and each time they come up with a different
answer. The first time it was that sometimes the fans spin at 10,000 RPMs
when they should be spinning at 6500-7500 RPMs. So I checked into that, and
they were all indeed spinning in the acceptable range. The second time I
called in they asked me to do a hardware check to be sure they were all
running correctly…

The guy instited that “correctly” was different from the acceptable RPM range.
So I did the test which he asked me to do, which took a few hours, and they
were STILL way too loud.

Called back, the third time, they said to update the BIOS and EPM software, it
was supposedly a software problem. So hung up, went and did that… STILL
LOUD!

So Now I’m calling back, and told the guy off. He says he’s doing “research”
now. Mostly because I told him esactly where on his website to go to learn
about the problem that we’re having, Because it’s been complained about
before, and there’s a ton of people complaining about it on their own forum,
and also on the google forums. I’ll report aobut his “research” once he’s
done.

Had a Poli Sci test on Thursday, it went alright. Though they changed up the
Essay/EC from the last test, so I didn’t study what I should have. I studied
the same types of things that they asked about on the last test, for this
test. Because on the last test, the essays were about WWI, and if it was
inevitable or not. Well this time, even though we covered WWII and the Cold
War and he had slides JUST like the WWI slides, the essays weren’t about
that.

Very annoying.

Anyways, I have to leave. So I’ll finish this later