Continuing Bad Taste Office Humor Week. This is just for Acidman who, since he has had a pump installed has given up some length for girth. Hey, he said it, not me.
I had an uncle who had prostate surgery in his 70's and had a pump installed. I asked him why he did it and he said it was because he was a cocksman. He used it well into his 80's, the randy old goat. I always called him my Uncle Pump. So, from now on, I shall call Acidman either Pumpman or Mr. Pump. And Pumpman, I just couldn't resist the grammar-police shit. Having taken two years of Latin in junior high and high school, I actually know how to decline pronouns.
Not much to write about. If I were Andrea Harris I guess I could call this My So-called Life.
Tuesday night I went to a Sommelier Guild of Atlanta tasting. I had one of my readers as a guest. He was surprised to find that we were not a bunch of stuffy, pretentious old men. He might join. This was our annual function where we elect the officers for the next year. I was elected vice-president. The election was rigged. As vice-president, I get to go to all the scouting trips where we check out restaurants where we may have future tastings. Also I get to go to the monthly board meetings, which is another excuse for the officers to get together and drink even more wine. It's a rough job but someone has to do it. Supposedly this is training to be president. Maybe, when I retire from TCIDNN at the end of 2004 (if not sooner).
All the members of the Guild had to bring a bottle of wine from their cellars for this tasting. What surprised me was I brought the second best wine. It was a 1995 Medoc, Chateau Lanessan. I only paid about $11 for it back in 1998, but it has cellared very well and is ready to drink now. I've got four more bottles, so the next time my sister visits, I'll open one of 'em.
My friend Brian (he who hates it when I use fuck in my blogs) is in town this week. TCIDNN gave him a luncheon on Tuesday for lasting 25 years. To show how bad my brain has been working (too much wine? Nahhh!), I thought it was Monday and showed up at the restaurant right on time, only a day early. The hostess gave me a hard time on Tuesday. "Got the day right this time?", she said. I also thought the Sommelier Guild function was on Monday, but fortunately Cindy called me and told me it was Tuesday. Drain bamage!
I upgraded four sysplexes (Sorry. Would take too long to explain what they are.), but couldn't put them into production until I could get Brian to work with me. The phases of the moon and the planets finally aligned properly and he was in town and the processors that these sysplexes run on were available so we have been upgrading his jobs to run on the new systems. In the meantime, we ran into some configuration problems and had to do some recabling and I had to recode some I/O configurations. This is fun stuff that I love to do. It's times like this that I really love my job. I've actually been coming into work on time.
What we should have been able to accomplish in two days has taken four since we had the configuration changes and we have had to fix some user problems. One of the problems was a user trying to come up on downlevel systems that I replaced almost a year ago. Unfortunately, the group that uses these systems hadn't bothered to update their documentation and this user didn't know it. This is the kind of shit that happens when a company runs lean and mean, overworks people, doesn't document shit, and doesn't train users. I'm hoping
to get everything finished by tomorrow.
Our PMICOUM (Project Mnager In Charge Of Useless Meetings) told me on Tuesday that we're gonna start working on the German project again.
Shit!
Posted by denny at July 10, 2003 09:38 PM