Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Chiggers!
Thank you to everyone for the encouragement. I feel better and promise to not drag you all away from my inane ramblings and juvenile drawings.
As I believe I mentioned, we went camping over the Memorial Day weekend, I survived and we came back with as many children as we left with so it was a success. However I am enjoying a bunch of new friends...
That's right...
As I believe I mentioned, we went camping over the Memorial Day weekend, I survived and we came back with as many children as we left with so it was a success. However I am enjoying a bunch of new friends...
That's right...
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| CHIGGERS! |
Needless to say I am not pleased with this latest development, but I am looking on the bright side. I got them on my feet. Several of the boys who went camping with us got them in their "Special Place."
Whew...
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Warning! Downer Post Ahead!
I am kind of in a funk. Over the weekend I had an anxiety attack while camping and in my depression I started overthinking everything in my life. Things suck when you love your family, are relatively happy with your job, are financially stable (mostly), have great friends, believe in God and still think about ending it all.
I decided to delete this blog as I never have time to write on it anymore and I have made one illustration in the last couple of months, but I hate to do it as the smart aleck side of me still needs an outlet from time to time. Lets face it, 140 characters just isn't enough sometimes.
*sigh*
Tonight I got kind of depressed when I found out someone I enjoyed talking to from time to time unfollowed me on twitter. Obviously I need to get out more.
In work related news, I am now working on the Windows Server based PBX we sell (again). I was asked to move over because one of the support guys was leaving. That would leave them with ONE which is NOT ENOUGH. So I agreed to move over, then the second support guy got another job and left leaving us with ONE... Ie: me.
I found out today however, when ONE is ME, ONE is ENOUGH, for some reason. OK, well the reason is cost cutting measures. So I am the lead on tech support, and then we have a supervisor who backs me up and another engineer who's main job is DQA. The supervisor floats between the two of us helping out.
I guess, I need to look on the bright side and enjoy the challenge. Maybe I need to update my Linked In account.
I decided to delete this blog as I never have time to write on it anymore and I have made one illustration in the last couple of months, but I hate to do it as the smart aleck side of me still needs an outlet from time to time. Lets face it, 140 characters just isn't enough sometimes.
*sigh*
Tonight I got kind of depressed when I found out someone I enjoyed talking to from time to time unfollowed me on twitter. Obviously I need to get out more.
In work related news, I am now working on the Windows Server based PBX we sell (again). I was asked to move over because one of the support guys was leaving. That would leave them with ONE which is NOT ENOUGH. So I agreed to move over, then the second support guy got another job and left leaving us with ONE... Ie: me.
I found out today however, when ONE is ME, ONE is ENOUGH, for some reason. OK, well the reason is cost cutting measures. So I am the lead on tech support, and then we have a supervisor who backs me up and another engineer who's main job is DQA. The supervisor floats between the two of us helping out.
I guess, I need to look on the bright side and enjoy the challenge. Maybe I need to update my Linked In account.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Lost In Translation?
So anyway while we were gone to Tennessee for my Grandmother's funeral we left The Boy In The Box (tm) behind to guard the house and feed the critters.
Friday before we came back our buddy Uncle Louie (tm) told TBITB that he would come over the next day to help him mow the yard for us. TBITB agreed so it was settled.
The next afternoon Uncle Louie (tm) shows up with the mower and TBITB is nowhere to be found. With steely determination he fires up the mower and resolves to pretend to not speak English to anyone who complains about him being at our place.
Once the job is done he loads everything up and heads back to his place. On the way his phone rings, it's TBITB.
"Hey," TBITB says, "I don't have to work tomorrow so you can come by any time you want to clean the house."
...
Apparently Uncle Louie (tm) is Spanish for Groundskeeper/Maid in TBITB's world.
Friday before we came back our buddy Uncle Louie (tm) told TBITB that he would come over the next day to help him mow the yard for us. TBITB agreed so it was settled.
The next afternoon Uncle Louie (tm) shows up with the mower and TBITB is nowhere to be found. With steely determination he fires up the mower and resolves to pretend to not speak English to anyone who complains about him being at our place.
Once the job is done he loads everything up and heads back to his place. On the way his phone rings, it's TBITB.
"Hey," TBITB says, "I don't have to work tomorrow so you can come by any time you want to clean the house."
...
Apparently Uncle Louie (tm) is Spanish for Groundskeeper/Maid in TBITB's world.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Mary Kate Vincil
First off thank you to all my friends for your thoughts and prayers as we dealt with the loss of my Grandmother. While we will all miss her we all sincerely believe she is now in a place where she is with her family which has gone on before her. Now she walks with no pain and the only tears which fall are tears of joy.
"Granny" as she insisted everyone call her was 89 years old at the end of her life; she outlived a husband and two sons and left behind three daughters, four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and countless other people who knew and loved her.
I wanted to include this photo of her, her sister and two of her brothers. Granny is the little girl on the right.
They knew hardship and poverty as well as love, discipline and hope. I hope to someday be as strong and as good a person as she was.
Rest easy Granny. I'll see you someday and we'll rejoice together in Heaven.
"Granny" as she insisted everyone call her was 89 years old at the end of her life; she outlived a husband and two sons and left behind three daughters, four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and countless other people who knew and loved her.
I wanted to include this photo of her, her sister and two of her brothers. Granny is the little girl on the right.
They knew hardship and poverty as well as love, discipline and hope. I hope to someday be as strong and as good a person as she was.
Rest easy Granny. I'll see you someday and we'll rejoice together in Heaven.
Mary Kate Vincil
May 10, 1921 to May 18, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
My Grandmother
My Grandmother on my mother's side is in Critical Care and we believe she will pass soon. If you are inclined, please pray for her comfort and for strength for my family.
Thank you all. I will try to keep updates. We may travel to Tennessee to be with her.
(FYI Burglars, not EVERYONE will be traveling if we go.)
Thank you all. I will try to keep updates. We may travel to Tennessee to be with her.
(FYI Burglars, not EVERYONE will be traveling if we go.)
Friday, May 14, 2010
Tech Support Fallacy
So blogging has been ridiculously light and I am sorry for it. Not that I think you all are crushed that I am not here, but because I don’t get to link to the insanity of my life.
A great example of this is the fact I am covering another department, so I now am not supporting traditional PBXs but I am now working on our server based PBX. Right now this is temporary, but I may go permanent. All in all, this is a good thing as I enjoy working on it and think it’s a good system but I have to get back up to speed on my Microsoft stuff, Server 2003, Server 2008, DNS, DHCP and scopes and my nemesis…. Exchange (2003 and 2007).
A great example is my first call yesterday. The tech starts off with his voicemail is down. Our voicemail directly integrates with Microsoft Exchange so if you can’t get to the voicemail it’s because we can’t access Exchange for some reason. Question number two was, “What has changed on the network.”
The reply, “I asked the network guys and they said ‘Nothing. Nothing has changed, it just stopped working.’”
We spend hours drilling here and there, me and my co-workers when finally we check a registry entry which points to the server we use to get Active Directory and DNS information to find the Exchange Server. I ping it and…
Nothing happpens.
We then run the “Set” command to find out who validated this server and change the registry entry to point to that Domain Controller. A quick restart of the Services and BADA-BING we are back in business.
I’m cleaning up a couple of other things with the tech and he then pops the customer on the line with us. The customer asks what the problem was. I make the statement that the server “BLAH-BLAH-BLAH.DOMAIN.LOCAL” was removed which caused our problem.
The reply was, “Oh we didn’t remove it, we just replaced the server… We’ll actually “upgraded’ it.”
OH. MY. GOODNESS. WHAT. THE. FISHSTICKS?
So basically the very first thing the tech asked and the first thing we ask “WHAT WAS CHANGED ON THE NETWORK?” apparently doesn’t count if you are working on DOMAIN CONTROLLERS!!!!
(sigh)
In the spirit of looking on the bright side of things, I learned a lot of good things from the ignorance of certain IT people.
A great example of this is the fact I am covering another department, so I now am not supporting traditional PBXs but I am now working on our server based PBX. Right now this is temporary, but I may go permanent. All in all, this is a good thing as I enjoy working on it and think it’s a good system but I have to get back up to speed on my Microsoft stuff, Server 2003, Server 2008, DNS, DHCP and scopes and my nemesis…. Exchange (2003 and 2007).
A great example is my first call yesterday. The tech starts off with his voicemail is down. Our voicemail directly integrates with Microsoft Exchange so if you can’t get to the voicemail it’s because we can’t access Exchange for some reason. Question number two was, “What has changed on the network.”
The reply, “I asked the network guys and they said ‘Nothing. Nothing has changed, it just stopped working.’”
We spend hours drilling here and there, me and my co-workers when finally we check a registry entry which points to the server we use to get Active Directory and DNS information to find the Exchange Server. I ping it and…
Nothing happpens.
We then run the “Set” command to find out who validated this server and change the registry entry to point to that Domain Controller. A quick restart of the Services and BADA-BING we are back in business.
I’m cleaning up a couple of other things with the tech and he then pops the customer on the line with us. The customer asks what the problem was. I make the statement that the server “BLAH-BLAH-BLAH.DOMAIN.LOCAL” was removed which caused our problem.
The reply was, “Oh we didn’t remove it, we just replaced the server… We’ll actually “upgraded’ it.”
OH. MY. GOODNESS. WHAT. THE. FISHSTICKS?
So basically the very first thing the tech asked and the first thing we ask “WHAT WAS CHANGED ON THE NETWORK?” apparently doesn’t count if you are working on DOMAIN CONTROLLERS!!!!
(sigh)
In the spirit of looking on the bright side of things, I learned a lot of good things from the ignorance of certain IT people.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Hello Monday!
I start off my day with this:
So now that this is cleared, I have some kind of meeting request from a dude concerning his Cisco Router setup. Basically it is modifying his SIP SDP data and his trunking provider is barfing.
The good news is, my box is sending the correct data,
Yea ME!
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
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