Don't get me started! My day sucked! I still haven't fixed my problem with the install and I don't want to call IBM support because I know it's sumpin' I've done and I don't want them to think I'm an idiot! Yeah, like they don't already think I'm an idiot. I'm in a beta test for IBM's new z/OS operating system and I'm supposed to report problems on the install, but I know it's me. I once opened a problem with support and level 2 figgered out that I didn't do a CLPA (that's for all you mainframe geeks) after installing a PTF. Aaaarrrrggggghhhh! Jesus, there was a freaking Action Hold that told me to do that.
So, I said to myself, let's go do sumpin' else. As part of my massive reconfiguration project, I've been moving all the equipment from one end of the floor to the other. All the I/O has moved and all we have left are ESCON Directors (fiber-optic switches) and patch panels. Over the last few weeks I've been consolidating fiber-optic cables and emptying ESCON Directors (ESCD's) and moving them to the other end of the floor where everything else is.
Today we moved an empty ESCD to the other end of the floor. We went to plug it in and the power connectors were the wrong type. So now we have to get them changed. There's a setback.
I was able to drop 12 cables out of one of the existing ESCD's and I decided to pull them out. I managed to get 6 cables of the 12 out. 4 of them were 100 feet long and 2 were 72 feet long. The distance they traversed was about 40 feet. It took me two hours because they were all tangled up. I'll get the other 6 out tomorrow. I hope to finish this by Christmas. I have three more ESCD's to move. Then, if my manager, who has no spine, loses the pissing contest with the managers in the organization that has just split off from ours (which is one of the reasons I'm doing all of this moving in the first place) I'll get to go through this exercise again when we have to move all of our stuff from the 4th floor to the 1st floor, only this time it will involve 7 CPU's and all the I/O associated with it. It will probably cost over $200K. And we are pricier than our competition because we pay some of our people too much fucking money?
Tomorrow, I'm also gonna work with the guy who is taking over programming support for the split off division and he and I are gonna lay 14 cables as part of the segregation project. Then I'm gonna get another guy from that division to reconfigure one of my magic DASD boxes (an RVA for you mainframe geeks) to turn it from single port to dual port, thus doubling the number of interfaces from 4 to 8. Then, on Monday, I'm gonna try to make all this shit work. I just know on Monday I'm gonna be fucked.
On the bright side, I got a note from the PMICOUM (Project Manager in Charge of Useless Meetings) that he was gonna be out of the office for the next week. If most of my department wasn't going to be off next week also it would have probably tripled our productivity for that week. I bet that him being gone must have cancelled at least 10 meetings.
I made pasta for dinner tonight. When I grabbed the pasta box off the counter, the open end was pointing the wrong way and lots of the pasta came out of the box prematurely and went all over the kitchen floor like a container of pickup sticks. Did you know that cats like to play with dried pasta? I didn't.
Then, as I was leaving the kitchen table, I hit my wine glass on a chair and spilled half a glass of Chianti on the kitchen floor. It could have been worse. It could have been a full glass and it could have been the living room carpet. Yeah, like I've never spilled wine on the living room carpet.
So now I'm in a really foul mood and looking at my comments I see that some dickwad named Mallory has decided to chew me out for what I said about the French in this post
I as an American, am deeply offended by some of the things you have said on your site.
And I, as an American, am probably gonna be pissed off that you claim to be an American and I'm probably really gonna be offended at some of the stuff you are gonna post on my site that I pay for with my money, so straight off, you can just blow me. So what were you saying again?
Having lived in France for a few months,
Are you bragging or complaining?
I can easily say that they aren't at all rude when unprovoked.
You have to provoke them to make them rude? So here we see the Francus cowardus. You have to be very, very careful around one of them. When cornered or provoked they don't fight back, they just become incredibly rude.
On the other hand, Americans do have the tendency to be complete assholes (look at Bush and the subsequent war).
We get that way when people attack us. We don't have that French surrender gene.
Almost every single comment you have made on your site is blatantly ill informed--
That's your opinion. Opinions are like assholes. Every one has one. I think I am a font of knowledge. I think you however, are full of shit.
America SUPERIOR to France?
Yep! Far superior. Compare standard of living. Compare economies. Compare personal hygiene.
I personally think not.
I personally think you are a fucktwat. I got that word from Jane. Go and comment on her site if you want to really get abused. Heh. heh. Heh. You are too much of a brie eating coward.
We may have "freedom", but Big Brother is only a matter of time (look at the patriot act).
GMAFB! You've been eating too many snails! I worry more about Big Brother when Dimocrats are running the country. They're the ones who appoint judges who want to subvert the Constitution. They're the ones who want to take away our guns. Even with the Patriot Act, we still have more freedom than France.
And Wealth is not a superiority!
Got news for you pal. France would kill to be as wealthy as we are. Wait a minute! They're cowards. They'd grovel to be as wealthy as we are.
You obviously haven't put much deep thought into this website,
I've put more thought into this website than you have put into this lame fucking comment.
or even into the French if you could say something as ignorant as "Take a bath!!!"
I have no problem telling people who bathe as infrequently as the French to "Take a bath!" Did you know that France has the lowest per capita use of soap of all the developed countries?
If I were to voice all of my opinions at this point, I would never get finished,
Omigawd! Do I have enough bandwidth for all of your opinions? If pointing out what a stupid asshat you are wasn't so much fun I would have deleted this comment. Instead I'm using it to amuse all of my readers.
so I'll just leave it at that.
If you want to voice all of your lame opinions get your own website. Hosting Matters only charges $11 per month. Then you could dazzle us with all your wit and wisdom and say intelligent things like
And oh yeah, Fuck you.
Great summary Mallory. Here's mine back to you.
Mangé merde Frog lover!
Posted by denny at November 20, 2003 08:59 PM