Trying to learn to relax

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It’s been a busy three months at the office. A coworker had an extended two-month absence that increased my workload. Right after he finally returned, I was the primary contact for a big project that just wrapped up this past Friday after three weeks of preempting everything else I was working on. I’m finally starting… Read more »

Back to work..

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I’ve been on vacation since Thanksgiving, but am really in the mood to return to work on Monday. I can’t stand being off work for more than a week or so – I tend to get bored. Bad habits of a work-a-holic I guess. I’ll also be taking every Friday between now and the end… Read more »

That was NOT FUN

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Early Sunday afternoon, there was apparently a power and/or UPS failure in the datacenter at my office. By 5pm, most of the systems were back up except for one that I’m responsible for. Fire up the VPN, hit the ILO remote console (one of the few things that makes using x86 systems as servers bearable)… Read more »

In training this week

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I’m out of the office in VMware training this week. Update: I took pictures of the training facility, mostly to show off the weird artwork in the hallways and the “no smoking” sign right next to an ashtray.

Someone likes me!

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I received an email a few minutes ago informing me that I’d been nominated and am in the running for Employee Of The Year (Legal/IT/HR) at work.

Another day, another dollar

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My boss walked in this morning and handed me a letter detailing this year’s raise. I’m certainly not complaining! In addition, someone from another group offered an open position with their team to me this morning, but I had to turn them down as I’m really happy where I’m at right now. I’ll still help… Read more »

Programming projects..

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I’m hacking on a system at work to automatically generate network accounts based on employee requests. So far I’ve gotten it authenticating against Active Directory (using adLDAP), and have rebuilt PHP with SQLite support. Tomorrow I build the majority of the guts of the application and a basic proof-of-concept user interface. Wednesday I’ll automate the… Read more »