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| Sunday, May 20th, 2012 | | 8:59 pm |
They Feast Upon Me
great title for a movie/album/song, eh?
Madre and PadreDiablo came into town to see the grandkids[my brothers].
Given the weekend off, I spent the afternoon and dinner with the brood
and damn, those little, undisciplined shits wore on me.
At 4 year's old, NietaDiablo inherits her madre's entitlement attitude,
“fabulous brat”. I put her on my right shoulder and went to a corner
and said “timeout”. She started bawling and my herculean effort avoiding
laughing was successful.
The Dark Turn
Today I found chigger bites on my lower legs. My parents brought parasites
with them. Yes, my flesh is that tasty. Come and get it ladies.
doG damn, we're hicks. Current Mood:  indescribable | | Thursday, May 17th, 2012 | | 11:24 pm |
Young Pups Like to Bark
Back in Junior High, we had a new puppy get killed when it tried to eat out of our older dog's food dish.
MadreDiablo tasked me with burying the pup and as I love animals, it was sad labor. The little pup didn't know better
and the older dog didn't have patience.
I try to be patient, especially with new people as I know what it's like to be new, plus I have to continue learning
new technology -keeping new. But I don't have patience for people that don't get to the point or run their mouth,
thinking that they're helping clarify things when they're not.
Rosetta Stone Absentia
The Wizard's extension blade migration project features all the hallmarks of a lone wolf
-especially one that's retiring in two weeks. Poor documentation, details, procedures, etc.
I'm weekend manager and the key person to execute this iteration of The Wizard's changes.
The rest of us don't know how to fully build/fix/trouble-shoot the remote access stuff. If I didn't dig into the
plan/doc/procedures, this would be screwed -including me.
It got tense for some.
Wallair tried to clarify with his less-than-a-year experience shining. I slow-snapped.
"I'm not talking to you, I'm taking to him".
This is my preferred way of telling those who think they're helping to shut the fuck up. Current Mood:  bitchy | | 9:41 pm |
Eyewitness to a Hyping
Facebook IPO tomorrow and InfiddlevestCorp mandates we batten down the hatches.
Operations conference call started at 1700 today and runs till at least tomorrow 1100.
I don't see FB in the long run like g00gl3 as they seem to make things worse with "improvements". Current Mood:  amused | | Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 | | 10:32 pm |
Billy the Kid vs. Dracula
I had to do it and yes, this is cheesy. Just how?
The movies' climax [below] will tell you all you need to know. Current Mood: content | | Monday, May 14th, 2012 | | 10:48 pm |
Maintaining An Old Master
My favorite Phillip K.Dick story is The Last of the Masters. Having worked
with “ancient” machines, I understand the odd attachment [pun intended]. Maybe it's desperation.
The software and processes are sound, the hardware is ancient but you stay with
what you know, unaware of where to migrate to or afraid of change.
Many hobby groups around the world maintain old systems for fun and museums.
At times, they rescue machines and here's a story of such a rescue of
an IBM 1401 system [in Texas no less]. They'll get the machines/parts eventually.
What struck me me is that aside from a possibly dying machine/old process is that
the business was stuck in time, the people running it were older and clinging to old ways.
Kind of cool, kind of sad. Current Mood:  thoughtful | | Sunday, May 13th, 2012 | | 9:03 pm |
Survive the Night, Day After and Beyond
The Quarterly Outage weekend lasted from 19:30 to 03:30,
getting home 0400-ish. Aside from “time served”, it wasn't too
brutal -just chaotic in that the schedule changes from what's advertised
as being up or down: systems, applications, consciousness, etc...
“D” Stands for Dejected
At Friday's retirement party for The Wizard, on ex-employee remarked
that I was now the senior member of the group. She then stated that to
Kayak [VP] who got a “oh shit” look on his face. Pay up sucker.
Technically, Ksam is senior as he's been in the group for eight years
but he's useless -so everyone forgets about him.
“A” Stands for Absent
Wallair informed me that combined with his vacation, military reserve and upcoming
maternity leave, he'll be out 70 days the rest of this year. He's passing this info
to Breckenbrew so that “something” can be done to deal with being short-staffed
while he's out. Un-fucking-believable. Current Mood: pissed off | | Thursday, May 10th, 2012 | | 9:57 pm |
Remnants of Spring 2012
Lots of things happening at InfiddleVestCorp and chaos is coming with
the big buy due to arrive by the end of June [est.]. There may be some opportunity
for me to wrangle money but I need to brainstorm treacherous acts.
Cast Updates
The Wizard -our true senior group member retires at the end of this month.
One vendor is throwing a farewell party for him tomorrow at a BBQ joint.
Can't wait to see the job description for his position -the guy was a former
International Beer Mafia field engineer [30yrs] and that's experience
I can't match, I might interview just for troublemaking purposes.
Breckenbrew -warming up the the manager spot and is talking with Kayak.
It will be nice to have a manager I like, though let's see how things get
when the workload hits critical mass and he feels political heat.
Samurai -in talks about becoming permanent. I don't know if it's for Breckenbrew's spot
or if we get additional headcount [expand group]. No word about back-filling temps.
Adiós Payment
One of the systems group's senior members passed away. Didn't really know or work directly with him,
so I won't be attending the funeral. I let a friend know about the opening in systems, he might be a fit,
plus he's been at SlaveCS too long. Current Mood: hopeful | | Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 | | 11:33 pm |
Lilyhammer
Fargo-esque series about a U.S. mobster relocated to Norway. Available for streaming from Netflix. Predictable but good vibe and character development. | | Monday, May 7th, 2012 | | 10:23 pm |
Cinco de Mayo 2012
Nice extended weekend began on Thursday headed to El Rancho to visit Madre and PadreDiablo.
With sampler flight stops at some solid brewpubs[1, 2 ], then an unintended detour at a bourbon distillery while on the way to a
back woods icehouse, produced a wonderful day.
The routine visit yielded one horror: PadreDiablo learned to text.
Wagon East
Casual, second-hand-high Saturday in Austin. I scored a bottle of Beer Geek Rodeo,
the latest Mikkeller-Jester King collaboration. After kicking back with afternoon beers and episodes
of Trailer Park Boys -HermanoDiablo II, Franzi and I hit Pinballz for a brief session and a complimentary Dos Equis.
We finished up at at a BBQ, draining a Patron-fed margarita machine. Olé!
  
Lashing, Stoning, Caning
I clocked out with ZERO emails on Wednesday. Awaiting me this morning were 476 new messages. 292 were auto;
mainly new alerting emails set-up by my co-workers while I was gone. They didn't go over list of what
items triggered [i.e. PLAN], so things are now scaled back or turned off until the alerting can be sorted out. Current Mood: good | | Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 | | 11:58 pm |
Rocks, Paper, Sand, Pebbles + Captive Audience
Infiddlevestcorp is getting into the “improve yourself” game and dragging all their employees in on it.
Some courses are voluntary others, like this are “non-voluntary”.
I went to Tuesday's class and found that it's over 15 years too late for this material to be “timely” to me.
I know where I want to be and it depends on Baby-boomers retiring/dying/sick and
a better stock market [ha!] fueling their retirement.
Get Me Out of Here
“Altruistic”. That's what I said. My group didn't know how to pronounce or spell it when we had to put up
characteristics of what we want in a manager. Though I did define the term, they still went on to say
things that fell under the word -altruistic. This affirmed an escape plan formed 15 minutes into the session.
The session went on till 5pm. I left at 3:30pm. Current Mood: aggravated | | Monday, April 30th, 2012 | | 10:15 pm |
04302012 Release From Captivity
No calls. A quiet week, a smooth weekend with a get-away on Saturday to stave off cabin fever and that's a wrap.
Short week -I'm off to visit Madre and PadreDiablo on Thursday with some Cinco de Mayo hijinx with
HermanoDiablo II in Austin on Saturday. Quetzalcoatl predicts sunny skies with a chance for beer.
Now the machines call someone else to say they’re broken. Current Mood:  sleepy | | Sunday, April 29th, 2012 | | 10:42 pm |
| | 7:29 pm |
As Good as Hooky
I pulled off attending a metal show while on-call. No calls/messages
plus the on site personnel handled things. Really happy as I hit Dallas city limits around 0130.
Dinner Abortion
Tried to hit a burger joint featuring a mesquite-grilled 10 pepper burger but unfortunately the effect of
being featured on Food Network had a line of about 60 people plus a full restaurant at 1800. After 45 minutes,
they announced they ran out of food and were re-prepping. Having worked in restaurants, this meant it would
be another 1.5 hours before I would eat and a good chance the food wouldn't be up to snuff.
Not worth it so I hit an old fave, Campo Verde, a Tex-Mex place blessed by the gods of GAUDY that always satisfies.
Check out the photo gallery on their wonky website [scroll to near the bottom].
Dive Down Memory Lane
Sunshine Bar is a lovely dive from my college days. I killed a bit of time there with some tasty $1.50 draft beer.
Around eight years ago, it upgraded to “hipster dive” with PBR, Lone Star [TX's PBR] and Ace Cider on draft along
with expanding their bottled beers.
For the record, they've always provided matchbooks with bail bondsman ads.
Maiestas at El Rancho
Interment opened the show with their early 90's style death metal because that's when they formed.
Live, they have a early Carcass feel due to the drummer.
At the Hellgoat show, I ran into an old friend Dave[ex-Magus, ex-Absu] that I played with in a band back in the early 90's.
This brought me out to the show. His current band, Maiestas did a good job releasing a metallized black plague. Very distinctive
presence on the bill plus a well structured set list. Can't wait to catch them at a club with a better soundman and sound system. Current Mood:  accomplished | | 5:09 pm |
04292012 Day 7 of Captivity
A bit of activity around 0300 but I was still up. ;>
On/off follow-up in the early afternoon with International Beer Mafia regarding storage box “Hairy Larry”.
Spotty service last night and an unauthorized action early this morning but the box is 100%.
Follow-up/answers to come tomorrow.
Less than 15 hours to go in this tour of duty.
Now to bide my time until the machines call me to say they’re broken. Current Mood: accomplished | | Saturday, April 28th, 2012 | | 2:22 pm |
04282012 Day 6 of Captivity
No calls. Solid block of sleep last night, best in weeks.
Less than 48 hours to go in this tour of duty.
Challenge to Make the Day More Interesting
Going to try to pull off attending a metal show tonight while on-call.
Luckily, half the group is working during the Tech Window so they'll get
called upon to deal with most issues.
Of course, I'll let Ops know ahead of time to use instant messager rather than
calling me direct. I've mapped out a couple of close by spots for wi-fi but most of the time,
I don't need to log on if it's a machine issue, only a vendor can resolve the issue.
Now to bide my time until the machines call me to say they’re broken. Current Mood: thoughtful | | Friday, April 27th, 2012 | | 9:21 pm |
04272012 Day 5 of Captivity
No calls. Quiet day in the office and at home.
Nothing else to report.
Now to bide my time until the machines call me to say they’re broken. Current Mood:  blah | | Thursday, April 26th, 2012 | | 10:18 pm |
Stabbing the Loins of Liberty
This looks to be a White-trash, methed-out Clockwork Orange. Note the coke lines in the shape of a swatiska. Current Mood: amused | | 2:41 pm |
Drunk, Obnoxious...Probably Smelly Too
Old video clip from Pizza Port's Strong Ale Fest a number of years ago.
I wasn't present but the rest of the crew was and captured this
drunken goon in action. There's a longer version but this is enough. Current Mood: amused | | 10:46 am |
04262012 Day 4 of Captivity
No calls. Worked out, ran two miles, sipped a few brews and sleep came easy.
Not quite the last stretch just yet, that comes tomorrow. Speaking of which:
Further Adventures in Babysitting
The party ends with me being required to go into the office tomorrow. InfiddlevestCorp requires two people
on-site for my group during the week. People are out:- Clivesdale - at Dixie data center
- Wizard -vacation
- Breckenbrew - gone for training
- Ksam -sick but doesn't count anyways
This leaves Wallair and Samurai which management doesn't feel comfortable manning the helm.
Maybe I'll order in pizza and make them watch Gymkata on a conference room screen.
Now to bide my time until the machines call me to say they’re broken. Current Mood: annoyed | | Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 | | 8:07 pm |
04252012 Day 3 of Captivity
No calls. Not a bad night of sleep either.
One call late this afternoon on storage box Hairy Mary Whiskey.
Disk drive went out -we've already got one replacement slated for this weekend.
Luckily, this disk is a different size and in a different part of the box.
And we've plenty of spares. Deferred to the weekend.
Procuring Gymkata as I type...
Now to bide my time until the machines call me to say they’re broken. |
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