Two months, I've taken up time from multiple teams, of multiple people, trying to get this unit online. Trying to get a new cable ran. Literally anything.
Turns out, the ethernet cable was never plugged in to the unit. At all. Which is why the IT team was never able to find the MAC and why the port was showing up/down.
When I was about 18, (1978) I got a ticket for having "An exposed white light to the rear" because of the broken lens in the taillight of my 69 Chev pickup.
I presume thats a law most places.
I have a cold, thanks to DD#2 who works in mall retail. She gave her 2 weeks notice a week ago, and apparently her parting gift was a virus to bring home to us.
But that's not the rant. The rant is this:
I am functional, but clearly not at my best. And all day long people have been coming to me, rattling off long, complicated "If A and B, then C, but If A and C, then D, but if B and D, F, and should we E?" scenarios, and expecting me to follow them carefully and respond appropriately right then, because they want an answer dammit.
If you can put that simply, in writing, and email it to me from somewhere else, I might be able to parse out an answer in the next 30 minutes or so. But standing over my shoulder and charging through it again verbally just ain't getting through today.
Sunovbeech!
This morning, one of my reps dropped off a large almond holiday kringle, addressed to me, which I always share with the office.
One of the bosses just walked in from the field, looked at it, tucked it under his arm, and left with it.
THE HELL
In reply to Duke :
Sounds like your new mission is to spread your holiday virus to him.
Why the berkeley did my wife schedule the kids for back-to-back dental cleanings!? They have multiple hygienists, so find a damned time when they can do all three simultaneously! I've been in this waiting room for two and a half hours now and have another 30 minutes or so to go and I'm about ready to just swallow my own tongue to put me out of my misery.
Not taking this ear thing well at all. Any other time this has happened, I could still "get" something from the affected ear, like hearing it when I'd sniff my sinuses clear, or chew.
This is just "nothing". I am wearing muffs full time at work now, and I'm wearing headphones to watch YouTube videos to distract myself and have the audio completely killed on the left just to be safe. I can reverse the headphones and there is absolutely nothing, not even a muffled murmur.
The rant is, I don't want to visit a doctor about it until after the first of the year because even though I have the best health insurance our group can offer, the deductible is still really, really high, and I can't afford to pay towards a deductible twice so close to the end of the year.
FuzzWuzzy said:Two months, I've taken up time from multiple teams, of multiple people, trying to get this unit online. Trying to get a new cable ran. Literally anything.
Turns out, the ethernet cable was never plugged in to the unit. At all. Which is why the IT team was never able to find the MAC and why the port was showing up/down.
Proof again that osmosis does not apply to Ethernet
Today was pretty craptastic and I spent the whole day being tired and crabby. I was finally getting in to bed around 2230 when I remembered that I had an eBay order that I needed to get marked as shipped today. Crawling back out of bed, I sat in the floor of the office and was cutting up a box to fit the gauge cluster. I was even thinking that what I was doing wasn't smart and I should rearrange myself into a more safe position. Sure enough, the razor knife slipped and cut a 5cm gash in my calf.
So now instead of getting to bed at a reasonable time, I'm sitting in the er waiting on a tetanus shot and some staples. Huzzah.
wae said:Why the berkeley did my wife schedule the kids for back-to-back dental cleanings!? They have multiple hygienists, so find a damned time when they can do all three simultaneously! I've been in this waiting room for two and a half hours now and have another 30 minutes or so to go and I'm about ready to just swallow my own tongue to put me out of my misery.
Hour long cleanings? How many teeth do your kids have?!
Obligatory rant: when the hell will I learn not to play video games with vertical learning curves and trash matchmaking systems?
SnowMongoose said:wae said:Why the berkeley did my wife schedule the kids for back-to-back dental cleanings!? They have multiple hygienists, so find a damned time when they can do all three simultaneously! I've been in this waiting room for two and a half hours now and have another 30 minutes or so to go and I'm about ready to just swallow my own tongue to put me out of my misery.
Hour long cleanings? How many teeth do your kids have?!
Obligatory rant: when the hell will I learn not to play video games with vertical learning curves and trash matchmaking systems?
I stopped playing online video games years ago. Don’t feel like getting my ass kicked by 13 year olds who have way more time to play than I do.
The Dancer had to be up early this morning for the first morning school show of The Nutcracker the studio she works for puts on. We've both been a bit under the weather, which means her not sleeping the best and me being congested and more prone to snoring. So to try and make sure I didn't last night so she could sleep, I went pretty much nuclear on the problem: took some nighttime cold/flu medicine, used a nose strip to open my nose more, and slept with the mouth guard the pushes my lower jaw out to keep my airway more open.
Get up in the morning (not as rested as ideal, since the mouth guard isn't the most comfortable)- and she says I was still snoring away so she didn't sleep very well. Berkleying tonsils...
Only slight good/dawww thing- When I asked why the heck she didn't wake me up and tell me to go sleep on the spare bed, her answer was that she'd rather get a bad night's sleep with me in bed next to her than a good night's sleep with me sleeping elsewhere...
It's no longer the middle schoolers and high schoolers you gotta worry about when it comes to gaming.
It's the low to mid 20 year olds who do nothing but stream themselves playing these days for hours at a time.
I"ve had a head cold for a month now. I'm sick of it. Most symptoms have gone, but I'm still congested. This is really pissing me off.
Dog was farting last night. Tried to let him out but he did not want to go out. 4AM, he's waking me up. Better than the alternative, but still annoying. I let him out. He pees. He poops. He walks around the yard. Pees again. Sniffs around the yard some more, then goes to the driveway and lays down. I call for him to come in, but nope, he's a Great Pyrenees and it is 12* F out there, no chance he's coming in.
Go back to bed with dog outside. Wife asks where he is. She's not ok with him sleeping outside. Sigh. Go and call him in, thankfully this time he comes. Could NOT get back to sleep though. Now I'm drowsy at work. YAY.
I spent two hours tearing down a Cadillac XT5 driver's seat to replace the lower frame, because the adjusters are out of time and move the seat crooked and make all sorts of noise (at 20k miles!) and then go to start bolting stuff to the new frame and nothing lines up. Oh, cool, the new frame was boxed wrong and it's a passenger seat frame. So now I get to put the seat all back together and then at a later date do the process all over again, and only get paid once.
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Adrian_Thompson said:I"ve had a head cold for a month now. I'm sick of it. Most symptoms have gone, but I'm still congested. This is really pissing me off.
I have the same thing going on. I started feeling sick the day before Thanksgiving and still haven't been able to shrug it off. I was almost recovered on Saturday and then I woke up Sunday with a sore throat and started all over again.
I've been powering through this cold with a lot of hot coffee, or tea with Gran Marnier.
Which means the inevitable caffeine withdrawal when I get to the other side and try to cut my consumption back to a normal level.
My mom has been driving one of my cars, because hers has a hole in the gas tank caused by the exhaust breaking off and puncturing it. Today she called me and said "I think a brake pad or something fell out of the car. The pedal went almost to the floor and then I found a piece of something on the ground."
You've gotta be berkeleying E36 M3ting me. I didn't even know that was possible.
In reply to slowbird :
Oh my yes it is, and it happens not infrequently.
In reply to Duke :
Report him for theft. I'm serious. You'd do it if he did that to your vehicle. The *size* of the item doesn't matter, the lack of morals on the part of the thief does. And he'll keep doing that E36 M3 if he keeps getting away with it.
My rant is that I can't stand thieves.
Possibly the minorest of rants.
The nice feeling sheet keeps getting stuffed into the side of the bed while I am sleeping. I like the nice feeling sheet and would like it to stay with the blanket.
Adrian_Thompson said:I"ve had a head cold for a month now. I'm sick of it. Most symptoms have gone, but I'm still congested. This is really pissing me off.
I have the exact same thing going on. Very frustrating.
You guys just wait until feeling like E36 M3 all day becomes the new normal. Embrace the sickness, like I have.
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