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Jury From Hell!

MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — Defense attorney Leslie Ballin called it the “jury pool from hell.”

The group of prospective jurors was summoned to listen to a case of Tennessee trailer park violence.

Right after jury selection began last week, one man got up and left, announcing, “I’m on morphine and I’m higher than a kite.”

When the prosecutor asked if anyone had been convicted of a crime, a prospective juror said that he had been arrested and taken to a mental hospital after he almost shot his nephew. He said he was provoked because his nephew just would not come out from under the bed.

Another would-be juror said he had had alcohol problems and was arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover officer. “I should have known something was up,” he said. “She had all her teeth.”

Another prospect volunteered he probably should not be on the jury: “In my neighborhood, everyone knows that if you get Mr. Ballin (as your lawyer), you’re probably guilty.” He was not chosen.

The case involved a woman accused of hitting her brother’s girlfriend in the face with a brick. Ballin’s client was found not guilty.

Failed

I failed…

Horribly.

674… When I needed 849.

Gah. I was so excited this morning too, I thought I knew it so well, I was so confident that I’d pass. Then I get in there and the guy running it was a complete jack ass to me and that just started the whole down hill start of it.

The first few questions were things I had no idea about. The test was much more…. Here’s a network, tell us what’s wrong. Rather then, here’s some information about something, is that right or wrong. Or How do you configure this or that.

And there was only one Simulation, when I was expecting a few more…. And of course I failed completely on that sim example. I got the first command right (I’m 99% sure) but then I forgot to issue the permit command to allow all other traffic, and then I couldn’t remember the command to apply it to the interface…..

Well, I did KNOW the command… I just forgot that there was an “ip” before it. Gah!

And on top of it all, I had a pen that wouldn’t write and the bastard REFUSED to give me a calculator to use… Which you absolutely need… You try figuring the 9th power of 2 in your head when you are all stressed out… It just doesn’t work.

And THEN the stupid proctor was talking on the phone the whole time and I could hear him and he was walking back and forth being very distractive.

So after like half the questions I just gave up and stated selecting answers as fast as I could. I didn’t care any more.

During the test I had asked for a new pen, because mine wasn’t work. And he refused to give me another one… Then when I asked if I could use a pencil and paper he refused that as well… And after the test he hands me this sheet of paper and says. “Read the highlighted part out loud”

Excuse me? I’m not in second grade.

It was the part in the contract saying you can ONLY use the supplied whiteboard and pen… YES, I KNOW THAT. But since MINE WASN”T WORKING And he REFUSED to give me something TO WRITE WITH, it was a very easy thing to just ASK for the stupid pen and paper. I was SO PISSED at him. Then he wouldn’t give me my results and when I asked for his name he refused to give me that as well.

So I called Cisco and told them all this and the woman that I talked to said that the treatement I got was horrible and that she was going to go talk to him right away (well actually call him, because the Cisco office for that is in New York and well, obviously I’m in CA)

So anyways, I was really pissed that I failed, and really pissed at that stupid guy. And now I’m scared to go back to that testing center because Of that one guy, cause if I have to deal with him again, it’ll be hell.

That’s my life. Someone shoot me.

Umm, where is everyone?

Well here it is 7Am, and for some reason no one is in the office yet…

Did I miss a memo somewhere? Usually people are here by 5:30/6ish.

Iowa got two inches of snow yesterday! Woot! 30% chance for more on Thursday.

Thursday is pretty packed already. Go get my dad’s present early in the morning, Meet with Oksana at noon. We’re having lunch at Hickory park and then Shrek II.

Then back home by 5ish. Then out with Dustin and hopefully Nikki. Maybe try and get Angel, and whoever else I can get to go out that night.

I’ve been horribly tired the last couple days… It’s strange.

I can’t wait to get back to Iowa!

1 day, 13 hours, 36 minutes tell I land…. Hopefully there won’t be any delays.

I’m really sore too, I’ve been working out a lot, and it’s starting to take it’s toll

Laters all.

T-Day Already

I can’t beleive it’s already thanksgiving week. What happened to all the time? It seems like it’s just flown past!

I pratically forgot about it tell this weekend when I was sitting at home watching TV and saw all the t-day specials on food network. It makes me sad that I’m not going home.

I don’t get to go smell my Gma’s cooking and yummy food. I’m going to miss it all. it makes me really depressed. I’ll be in my office working on t-day, and then go home and sit in an empty house all day cause everyone else will have to be spending time with thier fams.

Gah. I wanna go home so badly.

Today’s going to be really long. I have to take Andrew to the airport at noon.

Laters all.

Good Morning, All CLIENT Sites DOWN!

“Good morning, just calling to alert to you the situtation we have at the IC Data Center, all client sites are down as of 3:30AM this morning. Clients will be unable to access the site, ETA is unknown. We will contact you with hourly updates.”

That’s the VM a lot of people woke up to yesterday morning. It was a hellish day. Sites were taken down at midnight for maint at the SBC data center in Irvine. Maint was complete at 3:00 AM, and we started the process of bringing all the sites back up. By 3:30 it was evident that sites weren’t going to be online in time for the East coast clients to begin work at 7AM Eastern time. So I had to start calling both east and west coast people to alert them to the outage.

The ones that answered thier phones weren’t too happy that I woke them at 3:30 am. Thankfully most of them got VMs instead of live calls. 🙂

Had to wake the other SAs at 4:00am because the one SA couldn’t handle all the problems on his own, also my boss had to be contacted at that time and alerted to the situation. All the SAs were all in the office by 4:30am, and the CEO of my company had to be alerted at that time to the outage which was now going to effect all US clients. He wasn’t too happy about that either.

Started Site down procedures at 4:30AM with e-mails and txt pages to all AM’s (about 20 people) and the appropriate people at Pfizer (about 10-15 other people).

Hourly updates with no ETA were given tell 8am when I left, and were continues after that tell noon when we finally got an ETA of 1.5 hours. All sites were back online by 3:30 PM pacific time, which means east coast didn’t get ANY work done yesterday, and central sites were down tell 5:30 pm, which means they probably didn’t get anything done either.

It was absolute hell, and I was on the phone from 3:30 tell 6:30 straight. Thankfully my boss took over the phones at 6:30, and after that I just got the occasional call when he was busy.

Hopefully this will put some more pressure on for an east coast datacenter, which would be good cause they’d need more SAs for that. 🙂 And possibly some east coast SAs, and since that’s where I want to move, that’d be good. 🙂 Cause hopefully I’d be in on that project.

Cisco is going good. I’m nearly complete with the first book for the CCNA exam. I think I’ll try and get the INTRO exam taken here soon.

Today, other then the site down issue at work. Was good. I slept, got my package from UPS and USPS, which my mother sent lots of candy in. Went back to bed about 6ish and slept tell 11:15 when I got up, showered and then came into work.

Anyways, that’s my life.

Price is Right tomorrow! Woot!

Oh, and fucking COX sent me a bill, even though my fucking cable hasn’t been hooked up yet. Fuckers. I’m going to call and complain sometime soon.

Lateers all.